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Today updated 20:00 2017/07/19  乌克兰分裂再升级，亲俄国中国或将诞生

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan

Coming up：

——China and the US are set to hold a key economic dialogue in Washington

——China reiterate¹ its support for a political settlement of the Palestinian issue

——The pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine have announced a new "state" to replace Ukraine

For more on this, CRI' Jingnan is now joined on the line by Sun Degang, deputy director of Middle East study in Shanghai International studies university; Dr Ivaylo Gatev,Lecturer in European Politics, School of International Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China; James Rae, Associate Professor ,Department of Government,California State University; Wang Dan, analyst² of Economist³ Intelligence Unit, and JIANG Yang, Senior researcher with the Danish Institute for International Studies,early spoke⁴ with our anchor Su Yi.

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1 reiterate   

v.重申，反复地说

参考例句：

• Let me reiterate that we have absolutely no plans to increase taxation.让我再一次重申我们绝对没有增税的计划。
• I must reiterate that our position on this issue is very clear.我必须重申我们对这一项议题的立场很清楚。

2 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

3 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。