新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/03/06

2018中国国防支出增长8.1%惹国家惴惴不安

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Suyi

Coming up：

--China pledges to nurture¹ a world-class business environment

--China is set to increase defense² budget by 8.1 percent

--Xi Jinping says China's party system is a great contribution to political civilization

For more on this, CRI's Suyi joined on the line by Zhu Feng,Executive Director of Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies；LIN Shaowen, senior political commentator of CRI；Wang Dan, analyst of Economist Intelligence Unit；Zhao Yang earlier spoke with Yao Shujie, ChuengKong professor of Economics,Chongqing university and Liu Baocheng, professor at University of International Business and Economics

1 nurture   

n.养育，照顾，教育；滋养，营养品；vt.养育，给与营养物，教养，扶持

参考例句：

• The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
• The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。

2 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。