新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/04/18

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

Coming up：

--China announces anti-dumping measures on U.S. sorghum¹

--Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago

--Macron pushes for EU reform while clock ticks down

For more on this, CRI's Suyi earlier spoke² with Michael R. Powers Zurich Insurance Group Professor of risk and finance at Tsinghua university and Yao Shujie, ChuengKong professor of Economics, Chongqing university, spoke with Zhao Yang；Dr. Zhao Hai, Research Fellow with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences；Mr. Ma Zechen, current affairs commentator；Dr. Liu Kuangyu, with the Institute of Taiwan Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Science.

1 sorghum   

n.高粱属的植物，高粱糖浆，甜得发腻的东西

参考例句：

• We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.这块地可以种高粱或玉米。
• They made sorghum into pig feed.他们把高粱做成了猪饲料。

2 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。