1. 中美貿易爭端，也叫中美貿易摩擦，是中美經濟關係中的重要問題。貿易爭端主要發生在兩個方面：一是中國具有比較優勢的出口領域；二是中國沒有優勢的進口和技術知識領域。主要體現在美擬對中國輸入美國的商品商品加徵關稅。最近，中美貿易摩擦愈演愈烈。以下是中方的態度：談，大門敞開；打，奉陪到底。
Trade disputes between China and the United States, also known astrade wars between China and the United States, as well as trade frictionsbetween China and the United States , are important issues in Sino-US（中美） economic relations. Tradedisputes mainly occur in two aspects: one is China's export sector withcomparative advantages; the other is China's lack of superior import andtechnical knowledge and it is mainly reflected in that the United Statesintends to impose tariffs（關稅） on Chinese goods. Recently, the trade disputes have become worseand worse. And the following are China’s attitudes: If we discuss, our door isalways wide open; if we fight, we』ll fight to the last.
2.「一帶一路」是「絲綢之路經濟帶」和「21世紀海上絲綢之路」的簡稱，它貫穿亞歐非大陸，一頭是活躍的東亞經濟圈，一頭是發達的歐洲經濟圈，中間廣大腹地國家經濟發展潛力巨大。其戰略目標是要建立一個政治互信、經濟融合、文化包容的利益共同體、命運共同體和責任共同體。此構想鞏固了中國同中亞和東南亞的合作基礎，擴大了中國的影響力，對構建全球命運共同體做出了巨大貢獻。
「One Belt and One Road」 is the abbreviation of 「Silk Road EconomicBelt」 and 「21st Century Maritime Silk Road」. It runs through Asia-Europe andAfrica, one is the active East Asian economic circle, and the other is thedeveloped European economic circle. The vast economic development potential ofthe hinterland countries is huge.Its strategic goal is to establish a communityof interests, a community of destiny and a community of responsibility forpolitical mutual trust, economic integration, cultural inclusion. This conceptconsolidates China's cooperation with Central Asia and Southeast Asia, expandsChina's influence, and makes a great contribution to building a globalcommunity of destiny.
3.巴黎聖母院起火。巴黎聖母院大教堂（Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris）是一座位於塞納河畔、法國巴黎市中心、西堤島上的哥德式基督教教堂建築，是天主教巴黎總教區的主教座堂。它的地位、歷史價值無與倫比，是歷史上最為輝煌的建築之一。法國當地時間2019年4月15日傍晚，聖母院起火，一小時後火情迅速蔓延。大火致使塔尖倒塌，左塔上半部被燒毀。當地時間2019年4月16日上午，大火撲滅，火災持續14小時。巴黎聖母院在二戰德國納粹的佔領下躲過一劫，卻在和平年代失火被毀，這是令人所惋惜和難以接受的。
Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris is a Gothic Christian church buildingon the banks of the Seine, in the heart of Paris, France, on the West Bank. Itis the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Paris. Its status and historicalvalue are unparalleled and it is one of the most brilliant buildings inhistory. On the evening of April 15, 2019, French local time, the Notre Damewas on fire, and the fire spread rapidly in an hour. The fire caused the spireto collapse and the upper part of the left tower was burned. On the morning ofApril 16, 2019, local time, the fire was extinguished and the fire lasted for14 hours. It was a pity and unacceptable that the Notre Dame de Paris escapedunder the occupation of the Nazis of Germany during World War II, but it wasdestroyed in a peaceful era.
4.《復仇者聯盟》系列電影簡介
一股突如其來的強大邪惡勢力對地球造成致命威脅，沒有任何一個超級英雄能夠單獨抵擋。
A sudden powerful evil force poses a deadly threat to the earth, andno superhero can stand alone against it.
長期致力於保護全球安危的神盾局感到措手不及，其指揮官「獨眼俠」尼克·弗瑞（塞繆爾·傑克遜飾）意識到他必須創建一個「史上最強」的聯盟組織，雲集各方超級英雄一起發威，才能拯救世界於水深火熱，抵禦黑暗勢力的侵襲。
Long-term efforts to protect global security caught the shield bysurprise. Its commander, Nick Frey (Samuel Jackson), realized that he had tocreate a "strongest alliance in history" to rally superheroes fromall sides to save the world from the heat and the dark. Attack.
於是由六大超級英雄——鋼鐵俠（小羅伯特·唐尼 飾）、美國隊長（克裡斯·埃文斯飾）、雷神（克裡斯·海姆斯沃斯 飾）、綠巨人（馬克·魯弗洛飾）、黑寡婦（斯嘉麗·詹森 飾）和鷹眼俠（傑瑞米·雷納飾）組成的 「復仇者聯盟」應運而生。
So it consists of six superheroes: Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.),Captain America (Chris Evans), Raytheon (Chris Hemsworth), Hulk (Mark Ruffle),Black Widow (Scarlett Johnson) and Eagle Eye Man (Jeremy Reyna). The enemyAlliance came into being at the historic moment.
他們各顯神通，團結一心，終於戰勝了邪惡勢力，保證了地球的安全。
They showed their magic power and united as one, and finallydefeated the evil forces and guaranteed the safety of the earth.
中國近幾年的科幻電影也是得到了大眾的一致好評，其中根據著名科幻小說家劉慈欣的《流浪地球》改編拍攝的同名電影更是成了收視界的黑馬。除此之外，他的另一部小說《三體》也被改編成了電影。
The scientific movies in China in recent years have also been wellreceived by the public. Among them, the film of the same name based on thefamous science fiction writer Liu Cixin's "The Wandering Earth" hasbecome a dark horse in the audience. In addition, his another novel"Three-body" was also adapted into a movie.
5.涼山木裡火災。2019年3月30日18時許，四川省涼山州木裡縣發生森林火災。截至2019年4月4日15時15分，這次森林火災已確認遇難31人。4月5日，火災確認為雷擊火，整個火場得到全面控制，已無蔓延危險，火場總過火面積約20公頃。4月7日，四川涼山木裡火場出現復燃，越西縣、冕寧縣發生森林火災。
4月3日，西昌市人民政府決定，2019年4月4日為哀悼日，全市範圍停止一切公共娛樂活動；4月4日，西昌市和木裡縣降半旗誌哀，30位救火英雄中27名消防員被追記一等功，11人被追認為共產黨員；30名幹群被評定為烈士。
At 18 o'clock on March 30, 2019, a forest fire occurred in MuliCounty, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. By 15:15 on April 4, 2019, 31people had been killed in the forest fire. On April 5, the fire was confirmedas a lightning fire. The entire fire site was fully controlled and there was norisk of spreading. The total fire area of the fire site was about 20 hectares.On April 7, a fire broke out in the Muli fire in Liangshan, Sichuan, and forestfires occurred in Yuexi County and Suining County.On April 3, the XichangMunicipal People's Government decided that April 4, 2019 was a day of mourning,and all public entertainment activities were stopped in the city. On April 4,Xichang City and Muli County lowered the flag down to half for mourning, andthe twenty-seven firefighters among the 30 fire-fighting heroes were rememberedfor first class, 11 were chased as Communists, and 30 were classified asmartyrs.
6. 2019年2月8日，中國知名演員翟天臨因在直播中回答網友提問時，不知知網為何物，他的博士學位真實性受到質疑.。2019年2月19日， 北京電影學院發布關於「翟天臨涉嫌學術不端」等問題的調查進展情況說明，宣布撤銷翟天臨博士學位。此次事件造成了極其惡劣的社會影響，違背了教育的誠信原則，破壞了教育公平，降低了高等教育質量，值得國人深思。
On February 8, 6.2019, a Chinese famous actor Zhai Tianlin wasquestioned by answering questions from netizens during the live broadcast. Hisdoctoral degree was doubted because he didn’t know Zhi Wang. On February 19,2019, the Beijing Film Academy issued a report on the progress of theinvestigation on issues such as "Zhai Tianlin suspected of academicmisconduct" and announced the revocation of the doctoral degree. Theincident has caused extremely bad social impacts, violated the principle ofgood faith in education, undermined educational equity, and lowered the qualityof higher education, which deserves people's deep thought.
7.全國人大三月在北京召開，期間傳達了許多會議精神，例如鄉村振興，三農建設，首個農民豐收節，脫貧攻堅，農村垃圾治理以及汙染防治等。
The National People's Congress was held in Beijing in March, duringwhich it conveyed the spirit of many conferences, such as rural revitalization,agriculture and rural construction, the first farmer harvest festival, povertyreduction, rural waste treatment and pollution control.
8.黨的十八大報告提出，要大力加強社會主義核心價值體系建設，倡導積極培育和踐行社會主義核心價值觀。 2015年5月4日他與北京大學學子座談，也多次提到核心價值觀和文化自信。文化自信是一個民族、一個國家以及一個政黨對自身文化價值的充分肯定和積極踐行，並對其文化的生命力持有的堅定信心。
The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Partyproposed that we should strengthen the construction of socialist core valuesystem, and to``promote prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, advocatefreedom, equality, justice, rule of law, advocate Patriotism, engagement,integrity, friendship, actively cultivate and practice the core socialistvalues'' .On May 4, 2015, he discussed with the students from PekingUniversity, and mentioned the core values and cultural confidence many times.Cultural confidence is a nation, a country and a political party's fullaffirmation and positive practice of its own cultural value, and it shows thatthe nation has the firm confidence in the vitality of its culture.
9.不盲目追星，做理性粉絲
we can sense that there is a crazy tendency of idolworship in today’s China. Star fans, the majority of whom are teenagers andyoung adults, are used to blindly following every aspect of celebrities』behavior, accepting both positive and negative influences as universal truths.Be a fan, people should keep wise mind, or they will destroy themselves.Nowadays, fans will be a negative word, because what fans do is verycrazy and nonsense. To see the idols, some crazy fans will use the violence togo across the security, destroying the order. There is always the news aboutthe fans getting hurt for the purpose of seeing their idols. What’s more, somefans will drop out of their work, pursuing the stars everywhere. These arehorrible action.Everyone has the right to pursue their idols, but they musthave the consciousness that they should not cross the line, there is always aline for being wise and unwise. The wise fans will like the stars for theirworks; they know clearly that the role and the real person are different, sothey won’t support the idols for everything.For fans, being wise is veryimportant, so they won’t do the wrong things.
10. 網絡熱詞
女漢子：tough girl/tomboy 御姐：adult ladylike woman/domineering lady
萌妹子：girly girl 小鮮肉：young hunk 娘娘腔：sissy/pink/girly boy
11. 校園欺凌說不
"School violence"is apopular word in the school during this years. And school violence have manyinfluence for us too. Many of us suffer form bully of school-bullies nowadays. So,boycottschool violence is what everyone in school should do.Teachers should have asense of responsibility and carefully found the things which happened in yourstudents and then timely educate and protect them.As we should have a sense ofjustness and also have a heart of fighting against with evil.Don't be feared,itjust like a spring,you weak it will strong,you strong it will weak.I think ifwe unite together to fight against with evil.The school will peace andharmonious again!
12. AI人工智慧
The study of representation and search through which intelligentactivity can be enacted on a mechanical device.The study of problems at whichhuman beings are currently more adept than computers at solving and thetranslation and improvement of human solutions into forms which can beimplemented on a computer.
The physical symbol system hypothesis(PSSH), first formulated by Newell and Simon in their Turing Award paper,1states that 「a physical symbol system [such as a digital computer, for example]has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action.」 The hypothesisimplies that computers, when we provide them with the appropriatesymbol-processing programs, will be capable of intelligent action. It alsoimplies, as Newell and Simon wrote, that 「the symbolic behavior of man arisesbecause he has the characteristics of a physical symbol system.」
13.5G技術：5th generation mobile networks
Why do we need 5G?
Mobilecommunication has profoundly changed people's life, but people's pursuit forhigher performance of mobile communication has never stopped.
In order tocope with the future of mobile data traffic explosive growth, the connection ofmassive device, the continuous emergence of various new services andapplications scene, the fifth generation mobile communication (5G) system willemerge as times require.
Why does the vision of 5G emerge?
5G will makeinformation break through the limitation of time and space, providing excellentinteractive experience and immersive information feast for the user. Throughthe seamless fusion way, 5G will close the distance of all things, realize theintelligent interconnection between man and all things on earth.
5G willprovide the access rate of fiber like, the using experience of 「zero delay」,the ability to connect billions of devices, super high flux density, super highconnection number density , super high mobility and other multi scene favorableservice and intelligent optimization of business and user perception. At thesame time, 5G will bring the network over a hundred times the energy efficiencyand ultra hundred times the bit cost reduction. Finally 5G will realize thegeneral hope of 「Get the information whenever you want and all things on earthare at your fingertips」.
14.太陽黑洞：Scientists ReleaseFirst-Ever Image of Black Hole
An international team of astronomers announced Wednesday ithad successfully captured the first-ever image of a black hole.
一個國際天文學家團隊周三宣布，他們成功捕獲了有史以來的首張黑洞照片。
The image was released during a press event at the National ScienceFoundation in Washington, D.C. Press events were also held in several otherworld cities.
美國國家科學基金會在華盛頓特區舉行的新聞發布會上公布了這張照片。世界其他多座城市也舉行了新聞發布會。
The picture shows the black hole having a dark center, encircled bya bright orange and yellow ring spreading outward. The image is very similar tonumerous artists』 drawings through the years of what scientists believed ablack hole looked like.
照片顯示，黑洞的中心是黑色的，外圍是向外延伸的明亮的橙色和黃色環狀結構。這張照片與眾多藝術家描繪的黑洞非常相似，而藝術家的描繪基於科學家多年來的設想。
Black holes are areas in space where gravity is so strong thatnothing – not even light – can escape them. They are believed to be formedby collapsed stars. The presence of blackholes affects the surrounding environment in extreme ways.
黑洞是太空中的區域，由於這裡的重力過於強大，以致任何東西都無法逃離，就連光都不行。科學家認為，黑洞是恆星碰撞後形成的產物。黑洞的存在會以極端方式影響周圍環境。
Black holes are not easy to capture on camera because they aresurrounded by thick dust material and extremely hot gases.
黑洞不易被相機捕捉，因為它們被濃厚的灰塵物質和極熱氣體所包圍。
But scientists say they were able to produce the new image from datacollected from a series of radio telescopes around the world. The telescopesare part of the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project.
但科學家表示，他們能用全球各地多個射電望遠鏡收集到的數據來生成黑洞照片。這些射電望遠鏡是國際項目「事件視界望遠鏡」（簡稱EHT）的組成部分。
Harvard University scientist SheperdDoeleman leads the EHT project. He announced the image discovery.
哈佛大學科學家謝弗德·多爾曼是「事件視界望遠鏡」項目負責人。他宣布了黑洞照片的產生過程。
15. 中國國際進口博覽會 China InternationalImport Expo
16. 港珠澳大橋 the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-MacaoBridge
超級工程 Impressive bridge
HZMB is a 55-kilometer long bridge-island-tunnel complex across thePearl River Estuary. It is the world’s longest sea crossing. The bridgeconsists of a 6.7-km undersea tunnel, which is the country’s first offshoreimmersed tunnel and the world’s longest immersed tunnel for road traffic. It isconnected to the bridge through two offshore artificial islands.
港珠澳大橋是一個全長55公裡的橋島隧綜合跨海工程，也是目前世界上最長的跨海大橋。大橋包含一段6.7公裡的海底隧道，是我國第一條外海沉管隧道，也是目前世界上最長的公路沉管隧道。它通過東西兩個海中人工島與橋梁部分連接。
British newspaper "The Guardian" named the megastructureone of its "seven wonders of the modern world near completion."
英國報紙《衛報》稱這座巨型建築為「現代世界七大奇蹟」之一。
Located near the airports of Hong Kong and Macao and over one of theworld’s busiest shipping routes, where more than 4,000 vessels pass by everyday, the project could not interfere with the daily operations of the vesselsand the airplanes nearby. Maritime protection was also important as theconstruction region is overlapped with the reserve of Chinese white dolphins,an endangered species that enjoys top level state protection.
港珠澳大橋位於香港和澳門的機場附近，經過世界上最繁忙的航道之一，每天有4000多艘通航船舶，該工程不會對鄰近船舶和飛機的日常運營產生幹擾。海洋保護也很重要，因為施工區域與中華白海豚自然保護區相重疊，中華白海豚是享受國家頂級保護的瀕危物種。
17.長春疫苗事件
vaccine scandal 疫苗醜聞 substandard adj. 不達標的ineffective adj. 不起作用的未經冷藏(not be kept cold / frozen) 過期疫苗（expired vaccines）
Its remarks came amid public concerns about vaccine safety in Chinaover the weekend, after it was also revealed that Changsheng Bio-tech waslinked to a substandard adsorbed diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus, or ADPT, vaccinefor infants.
隨著長春長生公司再度被曝所生產的嬰幼兒吸附無細胞百白破聯合疫苗不符合規定，中國公眾對疫苗安全表示擔憂。
Several state media called for severe punishment and strictersupervision of vaccines. People’s Daily released a commentary on Sunday sayingthat drugmakers should stick to moral principles and make life their priorityrather than profits.
多家官媒呼籲嚴懲疫苗問題，加強疫苗監管。《人民日報》22日發表評論文章稱，製藥企業必須守住起碼的道德底線，必須以「敬畏生命」為信條。
18.2018雅加達亞運會：18th Asian Game Jakarta Palembang 2018
2020北京張家口冬奧會：2020 Beijing Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics
俄羅斯世界盃：
The FIFA World Cup is the most important competition ininternational football (soccer), and the world's most representative team sportevent. Organized by Federation International de Football Association (FIFA),the sport's governing body, the World Cup is contested by men's nationalfootball teams which are FIFA members.
The World Cup is held every four years. The World Cup finalcompetition (often called the "Finals"), which has been held everyfour years since 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was cancelled due toWorld War II, is the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in theworld.
The 21st World Cup took place in Russia from the 14th of June to the15th of July, 2018. The World Cup in Russia was the first for the tournament inEastern Europe. There were 32 teams all competing for international football’sbiggest prize, hoping to take it from current champions Germany. At last,France won its second World Cup title.
19.旅行青蛙:
A mobile game "Traveling Frog", from Japan, was recentlyshared widely in We Chat circles. In the game, players can purchase food anditems for a frog at home and send it off for new journeys.
The game was supposed to reflect the trendy Buddhist lifestyle andits spirit "whatever will be, will be", since it is not predeterminedwhether you see the frog at home when you open the app.
While your frog is at home, you can take apeek inside its house. After a frog goes on an adventure, it will take sometime to return. It will sometimes send you postcards while you wait, and whenit returns it may come back with new items.
20.霍金：
The world renowned British Physicist Stephen Hawking who tried toexplain the mysteries of the universe to millions of people died at the age of76 on March 14, 2018. His family said he died peacefully at his home inCambridge.
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8January 1942 in Oxford, England. Professor Hawking used wheelchair and was ableto speak only through a computer synthesizer, having been diagnosed with a rareform of motor neuron disease as a young man.
Stephen Hawking's death was announced in the statement by hischildren who said they would miss him forever. They said his courage andbrilliance inspired people across the world.
金庸：
Jin Yong, also known as Louis Cha Leung-yung, was regarded as one ofthe greatest kung fu fiction writers in China. And for many people, Cha built amagical kung fu kingdom that they could escape into every now and then.
But this kingdom is falling apart now,because Cha passed away on Oct 30, 2018, at the age of 94.
Cha wrote all of his 15 wuxia novelsbetween 1955 and 1972. While the values and tastes of readers have changedgreatly in recent decades, his books continue to attract people. His works havebeen adapted into movies and TV series so many times in Hong Kong, Taiwan andthe Chinese mainland that the comparison of these versions is of great interestto his fans. Cha’s real aim in writing novels is to show traditional Chinesevalues and qualities. 「Kung fu novels must depict justice and righteousness.The good fight the wicked. Traditional values are shown through the charactersand their stories, not by lecturing readers,」 he said.
21.高鐵霸座
The high-speed train tyrant pretended he could not get up from thestolen seat and needed a wheelchair. The high-speed train tyrant woman took aseat assigned to another passenger and refused to get up. She was banned frompurchasing train tickets for 180 days. She got a 200 RMB fine for her unwantedbehavior.
According to laws, all high-speed trainpassengers will be required to take their seats according to their seatnumbers, and railway staff and train police will have the right to fine andpunish those who refuse to vacate other people's seats.
22. 公交車墜江事件
A bus plunged into the Yangtze River from abridge in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality after it crashed into acar on Sunday morning, Oct.28, 2018.
A woman who attacked a bus driver after she missed her stop waspartially responsible for a dramatic crash in southwestern China that killedall 15 people on board.
A 10-second clip from the on-board camerareleased by Chongqing police showed a female passenger yelling at the maledriver while he was steering, shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday. The 48-year-oldwoman then attacked the driver with her cell phone, while he fought back withhis right arm. When she struck him again, he abruptly turned the steering wheelleft, swerving into oncoming traffic before crashing into the railings on theside of a bridge -- screaming can be heard as the video stops.