新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 08:00 2017/12/03

The Beijing Hour

Morning Edition

Paul James with you on this Sunday, December 3, 2017.

Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.

Coming up...

Our news focus,

Political party officials from different parts of the world discuss Xi Jinping's speech to an intra-party meeting still underway in Beijing.

In other news,

The US Senate passes what is expected to be the first major legislative¹ victory for the Trump² administration.

A 10 day, nation wide curfew is underway in Honduras amid a growing dispute over the Presidential vote count.

In the second half of our program

We introduce you to a veteran Kenyan footballer plying³ his trade here in Beijing, and tell you about research now being conducted on a 19-hundred year old mummy.

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1 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

2 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。

3 plying   

v.使用（工具）( ply的现在分词 )；经常供应（食物、饮料）；固定往来；经营生意

参考例句：

• All manner of hawkers and street sellers were plying their trade. 形形色色的沿街小贩都在做着自己的买卖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• It was rather Mrs. Wang who led the conversation, plying Miss Liu with questions. 倒是汪太太谈锋甚健，向刘小姐问长问短。 来自汉英文学 - 围城