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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Suyi

Coming up：

--Senior Chinese official Liu He is embarking¹ on a five-day trip to the US

--U.N. chief urging Syria truce² resolution to be implemented³ immediately

--Saudi reshuffles military officers with the Crown Prince believed to be behind the shakeups

For more on this, CRI's Suyi joined on the line by Prof Liu Zhiqin,Senior Fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China； Wang Jin, PhD candidate of Haifa University in Israel, research fellow of Syria research center of Northwest University as well as research fellow with Center for China and Globalization；Dr. Yahia H. ZOUBIR, Professor of International Studies & International Management, and Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School,earlier spoke⁴ with Wang Xiao；Liu Baocheng, Associate professor at the business school of the University of International Business and Economics and Sara Hsu,associate professor of State University of New York at New Paltz&commentator on Chinese economy, earlier spoke with Zhao Yang.

1 embarking   

乘船( embark的现在分词 )； 装载； 从事

参考例句：

• He's embarking on a new career as a writer. 他即将开始新的职业生涯——当一名作家。
• The campaign on which were embarking was backed up by such intricate and detailed maintenance arrangemets. 我们实施的战争，须要如此复杂及详细的维护准备。

2 truce   

n.休战，(争执，烦恼等的)缓和；v.以停战结束

参考例句：

• The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
• She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。

3 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

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。