新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/05/21

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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：

--Chinese vice¹ premier² says China, U.S. agreed not to engage in trade war

--South Korea president is set to pay a four-day visit to the U.S ahead of the key Trump-Kim summit

--Merkel told Putin it is the U.S. who complicates³ the Middle East situation

For more on this, CRI's Suyi earlier spoke⁴ to ZHAO Tong,fellow in Carnegie's nuclear policy program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua center for global policy;Dr. Cui Hongjian , Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies spoke with Wangxiao;Jiang Shixue, Professor and Director of the center for latin American studies , shanghai university;Dr. Zhao Hai from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Michael Powers, Zurich Insurance Group Professor of risk and finance at Tsinghua university spoke with Zhaoyang

1 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。

2 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

3 complicates   

使复杂化( complicate的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• What complicates the issue is the burden of history. 历史的重负使问题复杂化了。
• Russia as a great and ambitious power gravely complicates the situation. 俄国作为一个强大而有野心的国家，使得局势异常复杂。

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。