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Business Matters: Will Russia turn east for trade? 22 Mar¹ 14

Sat, 22 Mar 14

Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalising Russia's annexation² of Crimea, as European leaders placed new sanctions on political and business figures said to be close to the Russian president. We ask whether the Russians will brush these off as easily as they did the first set of sanctions - and what longer term damage there could be to trade between Europe and Russia. Also advocates of an independent Venice tell us Venetians have overwhelmingly voted to secede³ from Italy in an online poll this week. Plus the US company delivering medicines by drone. And with World Water Day on Saturday, we're joined throughout the programme by Duncan Goose from One Difference, an organisation that sells bottled water to help fund access to clean drinking water in Africa

1 mar   

vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟

参考例句：

• It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
• Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。

2 annexation   

n.吞并，合并

参考例句：

• He mentioned the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 .他提及1910年日本对朝鲜的吞并。
• I regard the question of annexation as belonging exclusively to the United States and Texas.我认为合并的问题，完全属于德克萨斯和美国之间的事。

3 secede   

v.退出，脱离

参考例句：

• They plotted to make the whole Mississippi Valley secede from the United States.他们阴谋策划使整个密西西比流域脱离美国。
• We won't allow Tibet to secede from China and become an independent nation.我们决不允许西藏脱离中国独立。