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Today updated 20:00 2017/07/03  G20峰会在即，习主席取道俄罗斯避暑聊天

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

Coming up：

--President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump¹ have held a telephone conversation ahead of their meeting at this year's G20 summit in Germany.

--President Xi says China-Russia economic, trade cooperation still has great potential.

--Also Qatar has been given 48 more hours to respond to demands of boycotting² countries.

For more on this, CRI'Su Yi is now joined in the studio by Tao Wenzhao, senior research fellow of Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science；Dr. Cui Hongjian, Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies；Li Guofu, Senior Research Fellow with China Institute of International Studies；Rick Dunham,Co-director, Global Business Journalism³ Program, Tsinghua University,early spoke⁴ with our colleague Zhao Ying

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1 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。

2 boycotting   

抵制，拒绝参加( boycott的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• They're boycotting the shop because the people there are on strike. 他们抵制那家商店，因为那里的店员在罢工。
• The main opposition parties are boycotting the elections. 主要反对党都抵制此次选举。

3 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

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。