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

Coming up：

--China and the UK have pledged to strengthen their cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative

--South Africa's ruling party announces nominations¹ for Zuma successor

--Putin calls Trump² to thank CIA for sharing terrorist info

For more on this , we are joining on the line Paul Gillis, Professor of Practice and Co-director of IMBA program, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University； Winston Wang, Managing Director of Shipston Group Limited talking with my colleague Zhaoyang；Zhaoying earlier spoke³ with Harvey Dzodin, Research Fellow of Center for China and Globalization;freelance columnist⁴ for China Daily/former vice⁵ president of ABC Television Network；Dr. Teresita Cruz-del Rosario, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Institute, National University of Singapore.

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1 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

2 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。

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。

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 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。