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$ U- _$ B) P. W3 TWe may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.
) }  O9 Y9 Q# L( s) a
) R2 e; G- ~0 J( CInfomation 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.

The 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".
4 G; t5 q" y7 E( o$ L  L, C; T
( @" x! h" ?( w8 F) NThe Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.
, l. x- L6 g4 |& i
+ A' Q+ a" K5 J: Z* K( y- w2 QThe 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.

Answers:
! [1 R' W' f1 m2 v3 f' N+ G
0 Q% k! ]6 d5 D1 L  eChat 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]
; s4 J+ h/ W1 t  G1 E
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]

" a( O; f* W0 H! \5 \- H* @7 _[ 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