新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/09/07

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

Coming up：

--China remains¹ persistent² in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula

--Angola's ruling party wins election

--Mexican president eyes closer cooperation with Chinese e-commerce companies

For more on this, CRI' Suyi is now joined on the line by Ran jijun, Professor of China Foreign Affairs University;Tang Xiaoyang,Deputy Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy;Jiang Shixue,Professor and Director of the center for latin American studies, shanghai university;and Zhaoyang early spoke³ with Yao Shujie,ChuengKong professor of Economics, at Chongqing university, and Mike Bastin,director of China Business Center with Southampton Solent University in the UK.

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 persistent   

adj.坚持不懈的，执意的；持续的

参考例句：

• Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days.艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
• She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.他不时地向她大献殷勤，使她很难为情。

3 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。