新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/10/17

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

Coming up：

--The 19th National Congress of CPC addresses media in Beijing.

--Iraqi forces have taken key city Kirkuk from Kurdish control.

--Scientists have detected gravitational waves from merging¹ neutron² stars.

Joining our discussion is Wang Shanshan， current affairs commentator；Prof. Dr. YANG Yuguang，Secretary of IAF Space Transportation Committee，Beijing Institute of Electronic System Engineering, the 2nd Academy, CASIC；He wenping，senior research fellow of the institute of west-Asia and African studies at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 

1 merging   

合并（分类）

参考例句：

• Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。

2 neutron   

n.中子

参考例句：

• Neutron is neutral and slightly heavier than the proton.中子是中性的，比质子略重。
• Based on the neutron energy,the value of weighting factor was given.根据中子能量给出了相应的辐射权重因子的数值。