美国第一夫人米歇尔将访华First lady Michelle Obama will head to China for a week-long official visit on March 19, the White House announced Monday.白宫周一宣称，“第一夫人”米歇尔将于 3 月 19 日前往中国进行一周的官方访问。 She'll be accompanied by her daughters, Sasha and Malia, and her mother, Marian Robinson, but President Obama won't tag along（紧跟，尾随）. He's got a trip of his own to Europe and Saudi Arabia planned for that time period. Education will be a major theme of the trip, and Mrs. Obama will visit with Chinese high school and university students. She'll also meet Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The first lady is encouraging US students to follow her progress via the White House website. She'll be posting a daily travel blog and taking and answering kids' questions. Issues such as education, escaping poverty, and easing climate change are the same around the world, wrote Mrs. Obama in a message to students on the White House blog Monday. "These issues affect every last one of us, so it's critically important that young people like you learn about what's going on not just here in America, but around the world," she wrote. On Tuesday Mrs. Obama will visit a District of Columbia charter elementary school with a Chinese-language international baccalaureate（学士学位，离别训辞） program, as preparation and publicity for her trip. It's not the first time the first lady has set out on solo diplomatic visits. In 2010 she assessed earthquake damage in Haiti, then continued to Mexico for meetings on getting youths engaged in important political and economic questions. In 2011 she traveled to Botswana and South Africa sans spouse. In doing so, she's continuing a modern traditio...
