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David Cameron defends China business deals
卡梅伦为中英商业协议辩护

David Cameron has defended the UK's business links with China as he said deals worth ￡40bn had been struck during President Xi Jinping's visit.
大卫·卡梅伦表示，习近平访英期间，中英达成了400亿英镑的协议，同时为中英经贸合作辩护。

Mr Cameron hailed a deal giving China a 30% stake in a new nuclear plant.
卡梅伦对一项给予中国一座新核电站30%股份的协议表示赞赏。

The PM said the two countries could maintain a "strong relationship" while having "necessary and frank discussions" about issues like the steel industry and human rights.
卡梅伦表示，中英可以保持“牢固的两国关系”，同时对钢铁工业和人权等问题进行“必要和开诚布公的讨论”。

Language tips:

提到“达成协议”，首先出现在你脑海里的短语是什么？小编猜是reach an agreement，也许还有come to an agreement？卡梅伦教给大家一个新的表达：strike a deal（达成交易/协议）。

Strike这个词也是新闻报道中的高频词，比如French air traffic controllers went on strike yesterday to demand better working and retirement conditions，这里的strike是名词，表示罢工，它也可以做动词，The trade union decided to strike the whole country。如果哪里发生了地震，你一定可以看到报道中使用an earthquake strikes somewhere这样的表达，strike在这里表示疾病或灾害等突然爆发，除了earthquake，strike还可以和drought、flood、plague、tornado、storm、snowstorm乃至今年上半年害得大家人心惶惶的的MERS（中东呼吸综合征）搭配使用，可谓相当万能。