一段新闻，学习了三个词组

爱网观察员

Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
5:42AM

+ T- j6 H' S1 V7 T1 K7 N; j; UWe may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.

  U. h4 B+ ]5 F# dInfomation obtained by iNews 880 and the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper suggests an incident involving a woman brought victim Tim McLean and accused killer Vince Li together.
) }) T- z0 {! _* m2 _8 G/ s" R
; L+ D, w4 o, g5 c% q; B' hThe information given to us said at the stopover in Brandon, an Asian Guy had been hitting on a girl that Tim knew on the bus and that Tim told him to "lay off".

- H% ?0 f: j* c3 ?/ J3 kThe Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.

' F+ X1 {% J* u9 m# k! HThe pair seemed friendly but as the bus resumed its ill-fated journey towards Winnipeg, Li suddenly moved to the back of the bus and sat down beside McLean, who was listening to his headphones and apparently asleep.
/ t9 u: q4 c/ p$ S5 ]
1 X. k: a# k( h; n& a# n6 w5 s7 |Answers:
  U* x1 s3 b6 H* J& I  g
Chat up -- Talk flirtatiously to, as in Leave it to Charlie to chat up the girls. This usage is mostly but not entirely British. [Late 1800s]

Hit on -- Make sexual advances to someone, especially unwanted ones, as in You can't go into that bar without being hit on. [Slang; mid-1900s]
8 G% R. ]. c; t. }4 J2 g9 V; a
Lay off –- 1. Stop doing something, quit, as in Lay off that noise for a minute, so the baby can get to sleep, or She resolved to lay off smoking. [Early 1900s] ;
          2. Stop bothering or annoying someone, as in Lay off or I'll tell the teacher. [Slang; c. 1900]
% R4 g, ?, g+ J' q3 R0 f2 a
[ 本帖最后由 卜兆吉尚活 于 2008-8-5 15:11 编辑 ]

xb.su

irish

就是说有动机了？可以定一级谋杀。

織紗千影

Thanks for sharing