新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/06/07

4月签放给外国人绿卡等于2017年发放总额

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

Coming up：

--China allows domestic fundraising for overseas-listed firms

--Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sideline of the Summit.

--European leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at odds¹ over Iran Nuclear Deal.

--China has granted permanent residency to a record number of foreigners since April.

For more on this, CRI's Zhaoying earlier spoke² with Rong Ying,Vice President and Senior Research Fellow, at the China Institute of International Studies；Wangjin, PHD candidate of Haifa university, Israel, and research fellow of Syria research center of northwest university；Zhao Yang earlier talked with Michael R. Powers, Zurich Insurance Group and Professor of risk and finance at Tsinghua university, as well as Wang Dan, analyst³ of Economist⁴ Intelligence Unit；Edward LEHMAN, legal affairs commentator⁵ & managing director at LEHMAN, LEE & Xu Law Firm., speaking with Su Yi

1 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？

2 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。

3 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。

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。

5 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。