▷As the annual session[1] of China’s toothless National People’s Congress[2] got under way[3], the one-party state forbade[4] the country’s media from reporting on diverse topics including smog, the use of land for burials[5] and delegates’ wealth. They were, however, ordered to “thoroughly report” on the participation of Xi Jinping, the country’s president.

▷For the first time, a computer beat a world champion at the Asian board game of Go[6], when Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo outclassed[大大高出,超过,胜过] Lee Se-dol[7] of South Korea, who has won 18 championships. Computers have beaten the world’s best chess[国际象棋,西洋棋] players, but Go is much more complex.

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注释与生词

[1]年会;一年一度的会议

[2]全国人民代表大会

[3]正在进行的;正在发生的;开始

[4]forbade 禁止（forbid的过去式）

[5]墓园土地

[6]board game棋盘游戏

go:日语围棋写作“囲碁”或者“碁”(“碁”是“棋”的异体写法)，读作“いご(igo)”及“ご(go)”。

[7]Lee Se-dol 李世乭,因中文汉字无“乭”字(朝鲜汉字)，故中文媒体多将其简化为“石”(李世石)。

▷toothless ['tuːθləs]

 an  or a  that has no 

没有约束力的；没有权力的This  but toothless  will do nothing to  the.这项用意良好但没有约束力的法律对改善局势没有什么作用。

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