新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/04/24

 法国大选火药味弥漫，政坛新秀还是退欧女王？

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

Coming up:

--The centrist Macron and the far-right Le Pen are marching toward the French presidential run-off. Le Pen:"I am calling on all the true patriots¹ wherever they come from, whatever the origins, whatever their background and their vote in the first round to join me"

--China and the US keep close watch on the developments in the Korean Peninsula

--An international scientific journal has retracted² over 100 articles mostly written by Chinese.

--and  Avocado has become the star fruit in China.

For more on this, CRI's Jingnan is now joined on the line by Dr. Ben Wellings, lecturer in politics and international relations at Monash University; Zhao Hai Research Fellow National Strategy Institute, Tsinghua University

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1 patriots   

爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
• These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

2 retracted   

v.撤回或撤消( retract的过去式和过去分词 )；拒绝执行或遵守；缩回；拉回

参考例句：

• He made a false confession which he later retracted. 他作了假供词，后来又翻供。
• A caddy retracted his statement. 一个球童收回了他的话。 来自辞典例句