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Today updated 20:00 2017/07/24 撼山易撼解放军难，军队建设浴火重生 

Today   

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

Coming up：

--IMF revises up China's growth forecast while downgrades the US and the UK.

--The Chinese defense¹ ministry² is urging India to immediately withdraw all troops.

--US lawmakers have reached agreement on legislation that makes it harder for President Donald Trump³ to lift any sanctions against Moscow.

For more on this, CRI' Suyi is now joined on the line by Lin Shaowen, senior political analyst;Einar Tangen, author and columnist;Bukola Ogunsina, a journalist with leadership newspapers in Nigeria and a fellow at the China-Africa Press Center;also Winston Wong, Managing Director of Shipstone Group Limited early spoke⁴ with Zhao Yang

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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 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 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。

4 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。