China's legislature ends bimonthly session
BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on Friday ended its bimonthly session（会议）, adopting a series of bills including a law on vehicle and vessel 1 taxation 2, which is aimed at standardizing 3 taxation and promoting environmental awareness 4 and energy efficiency.
The National People's Congress (NPC) Standing 5 Committee(常务委员会) also voted to adopt an amendment 6 to the Criminal Law which reduces the number of crimes punishable by death by 13 to 55.
Moreover, it passed the country's first law on intangible cultural heritage protection, which is expected to better preserve heritages of historic, literary, artistic 7 or scientific value.
At the session that opened on Wednesday, lawmakers validated 8 the dismissal of Liu Zhijun from his post as the railways minister and appointed Sheng Guangzu, the former head of the General Administration of Customs, to replace Liu.
The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said on Feb. 12 that Liu was under investigation 9 for alleged 10 "severe violation 11 of discipline," while the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department said he had been removed from the post of the ministry's Party chief.
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, said at the closing of the bimonthly session that the democratic rights of NPC members should be fully 12 respected and guaranteed during the upcoming NPC plenary session.
On Friday afternoon, the members of the NPC Standing Committee attended a lecture on China's water conservancy development.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）
- The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
- You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
- He made a number of simplifications in the taxation system.他在税制上作了一些简化。
- The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
- These composite indices are derived by standardizing each of its component series. 这些综合指数是使通过把它们的组成部分中的各个数列标准化而获得的。
- Significant progress was made in rectifying and standardizing nonbank financial institutions. 整顿和规范非银行金融机构取得重要进展。
- There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
- Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
- The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
- The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
- These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。
- Time validated our suspicion. 时间证实了我们的怀疑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The decade of history since 1927 had richly validated their thesis. 1927年以来的十年的历史，充分证明了他们的论点。 来自辞典例句
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
- He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。