新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/06/21

中美首轮外交安全对话今日展开

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

Coming up：

--Chinese stocks get a big boost from MSCI

--U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

--The first China-US diplomatic and security dialogue is about to start

For more on this, we early have Liu Baocheng, Professor at the business school of the University of International Business and Economics, spoke¹ with Zhao Yang；and joining us on the line is Dr. Cui Hongjian , Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies;Tao Wenzhao, senior research fellow of Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science;Zhao Changhui, Senior analyst², the Export-Import Bank of China early spoke with Zhao Ying.

1 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。

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。