VOA常速英语:Protesters Occupy Durban Climate Conference

短语讲解：

1. Youth activists at the U.N. climate conference are disappointed with the lack of progress and are demanding more urgent action.

be disappointed with对…感到失望
例句：I was disappointed with him again.
我再一次对他感到失望。

2. Adam Greenberg, a student from the United States, who participated in the action, said he and other American youths at the conference adamantly disagree with the U.S. position at the talks.

participate in分担; 参加
例句：The people are demanding a chance to participate more in government.
人民要求更多的参与政事的机会。
disagree with不同意,不一致,不适合
例句：I entirely disagree with him.
我根本不同意他的看法。

3. "But I think it's very clear.  There's between 50 and 80 approximately U.S. youth here, [and] except for the four that are here with the State Department, everyone else is very directly against the line that the United States is showing," noted Greenberg.

except for除…之外; 若不是; 要不是由于
例句：His composition is excellent except for some grammatical mistakes.
他的作文写得很好, 只有几处语法错误。

4. They've spoken out about it very clearly, very loudly, very prominently that that does not represent us, that does not represent science, that does not represent our future.

speak out毫无保留地说出
例句：If you have any objections, just speak out.
如果你有什么反对意见, 就爽快地说出来。

5. A day earlier, another American youth interrupted a speech by the head of the U.S. delegation, Todd Stern, protesting against the U.S. position that it does not expect to adjust emissions targets until 2020.

protest against抗议
例句：All local farmers protested against building the new airport on their farm land.
当地农民抗议在他们的农田上建新飞机场。

6. And earlier this week, six Canadian youths turned their back on an address by their country's environment minister, to protest against Canada's plans to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding mandate to cut carbon emissions blamed for global warming.

pull out退出; (使)离开
例句：I don't think they are going to pull out of the deal at the last minute.
我认为他们不会在最后一分钟退出这笔交易。
blame for因…怪罪, 责怪(某人)
例句：He blamed his brother for breaking the window.
他责备他兄弟打破了窗玻璃。