今天的句子：

第一句：

Taking a page from the Democrats, Trump embraced a plan to allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers, promising that such a scheme could save hundreds of millions of dollars and reduce drug prices. 

词汇突破：

1. take a page from： 借鉴，学习

2. Democrats： 民主党人

3. embrace : 接受

4. Medicare: 大写M表示美国的联邦医疗保险体系；类似我过得医保体系；

5. drug manufacturers：药品制造商

6. scheme：计划

切分+独立成句：

1.Taking a page from the Democrats,

= Trump takes a page from the Democrats

（现在分词短语还原为一个句子）

2.Trump embraced a plan to allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers,

3. promising that such a scheme could save hundreds of millions of dollars and reduce drug prices. 

= Trump promises that such a scheme could save hundreds of millions of dollars and reduce drug prices.

（现在分词短语还原为一个句子）

参考译文：特朗普效仿民主党，接受一个允许联邦医疗保险直接与药企议价的计划，承诺这种计划能节省成亿美元并削减药品价格。

第二句：

When he was asked why the plan, which has circulated around Capitol Hill for about 15 years, hadn’t yet passed Congress, Trump said without reservation that it was all drug companies’ fault.

词汇突破:

1. circulate:转圈 

2. Capitol Hill 国会山就是指美国国会

 circulated around Capitol Hill：比喻一直在国会中讨论

3. hadn’t yet： 迄今仍未

4. without reservation 毫不遮掩地；毫不客气地

5. pass Congress  在国会通过；获得国会批准

切分:

1.When he was asked why the plan hadn’t yet passed Congress,

2.which has circulated around Capitol Hill for about 15 years, 

3.Trump said without reservation that it was all drug companies’ fault.

参考译文：被问及为什么这个计划已经在国会山兜兜转转近15年，却仍未在国会通过时，特朗普毫不客气地说，都是药企的错。

思考题一：

Trump are learning from the liberals to accept a plan.

Take a page from= learn from

Liberals= democrats 

Accept =embrace 

所以这个说法是正确的

思考题二：

Trump blames drug manufacturers for the hinderance of the plan. 

Hinderance:阻碍，妨碍！

特朗普说了：it was all drug companies’ fault.

计划没通过就是药企的错，也就是说药企妨碍了计划的通过。

所以这个选项是正确的！

明天的句子：

The existence of a forgotten and neglected underclass of people is not something unique to the Conservatives’ time in office. Vulnerable people and those who prey on them are not new. The safety nets in the UK have often been badly maintained and easy to slip through, but the Tory solution has been to blame the safety net itself rather than its design, and then to work to make it even worse.

思考题一：

Underprivileged people had been ignored by the Tory before.

思考题二：

The possible solution to the problem is to change the design of safety net.