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Today updated 20:00 2017/07/04  默克尔降级德美友情，从重要“朋友”变重要“合伙者”

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

Coming up：

--North Korea has filed a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan

--French President Emmanuel Macron will significantly reduce the number of his country's lawmakers

--and Germany's leadership has downgraded the status of the US from "friend" to "partner"

For more on this, CRI'Jingnan is now joined in the studio by  Zhao Hai, Research Fellow, National Strategy Institute, Tsinghua University；Dr. Stephen R. Nagy, Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian¹ University；Ma Zechen, Current affairs commentator² early talked with our reporter;Mr. Christoph Pohlmann Resident representative for China Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung early spoke³ to Zhao Ying.

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1 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

2 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。

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。