新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/04/26

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

Coming up:

--China launches its first domestically-built aircraft carrier

--The US defense¹ secretary discusses anti-terrorist tactics in Afghanistan

--Part of the US THAAD system is installed in South Korea

--Ivanka Trump² defends her father even after being booed in Berlin

For more on this, CRI's Jingnan is now joined on the line by Shen Dingli, Associate Dean of Institute of International studies at Fudan University; Xu Qingduo, our current affairs commentator³; Jia Xiudong, Senior Research Fellow from China Institute of International Studies; Dr. Yang Xiyu, senior research fellow at China Institute of International Studies.

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1 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

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 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。