美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2011-01-025
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2011(一月)
1. The House is planning to vote on the repeal 1 of last year’s health care reform law, even though it has almost no chance of passing in the Senate. The GOP says it is not merely symbolic 2. Some Republicans are also challenging Senate Democrats 3 to bring it up for a full vote when the bill reaches them.
2. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will try to smooth out relations between the two countries today. There are continuing disagreements on economic and security issues. An official state dinner for China is scheduled later tonight.
3. A utility worker is dead and three people remain in critical condition in Philadelphia after a gas main explosion. Firefighters battled the blaze for about three hours. Utility crews had been sent to the scene to investigate reports of a gas odor when the blast occurred.
4. Former Peace Corps 4 director Sargent Shriver is dead. Shriver also served as ambassador and leader of the War on Poverty. The Kennedy in-law suffered from Alzheimer’s disease since at least 2003. He was 95 years old.
- He plans to repeal a number of current policies.他计划废除一些当前的政策。
- He has made out a strong case for the repeal of the law.他提出强有力的理由，赞成废除该法令。
- It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
- The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。