新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/07/27

安倍说辞闪烁不定，“加计学园”丑闻如何脱身？

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

Coming up：

--Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is being grilled¹ over its favoritism scandal amid a support rate below 30 percent.

--Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says his country is in a decisive week ahead of elections for a National Constituent² Assembly.

--U.S. President Donald Trump³ has twitted that transgender people will not be allowed to serve in the country's military.

For more on this, CRI' Suyi is now joined on the line by Dai Nian, Research associate at Duke Kunshan University；Jiang Shixue, Professor and Director of the center for latin American studies , shanghai university；Einar Tangen, author and columnist⁴, early spoke⁵ with Zhao Ying；Professor Zhang Jun,Dean at the School of Economics, and Director at the Center for Chinese Economy, Fudan University in Shanghaiand Giles Chance,visiting professor of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, early spoke with Zhao Yang.

1 grilled   

adj. 烤的, 炙过的, 有格子的 动词grill的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• He was grilled for two hours before the police let him go. 他被严厉盘查了两个小时后，警察才放他走。
• He was grilled until he confessed. 他被严加拷问，直到他承认为止。

2 constituent   

n.选民；成分，组分；adj.组成的，构成的

参考例句：

• Sugar is the main constituent of candy.食糖是糖果的主要成分。
• Fibre is a natural constituent of a healthy diet.纤维是健康饮食的天然组成部分。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

5 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。