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

Coming up：

--The US says “all options on the table” in response to the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria

--Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit Japan next week to attend high-level economic dialogue

--Malcolm Turnbull says foreign interference bill sours Australian ties with China

--Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress hearing

For more on this, CRI's Zhaoying joined on the line by Saad Jawad, professor of political science and senior fellow at Middle East Center with London School of Economics and Xu Qinduo, our political analyst¹ and senior fellow of Pangoal Institution；Dai Nian, Research associate at Duke Kunshan University；Chen Hong, executive vice² president of Chinese Association of Australian Studies in China, spoke³ with Su Yi；Wang Dan, analyst of Economist⁴ Intelligence Unit and Liu Baocheng, professor at the University of International Business and Economics spoke with ZHAO Yang.

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1 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。

2 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。

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 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。