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
* f5 c4 |# A# [7 u9 N
We may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.

Infomation 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.

4 x# S7 t( e: b, s9 s+ D. 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".
- e4 L! O" u2 T
' N: T2 Q$ q+ b9 D; S7 mThe Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.
. _% ~. A9 S' s
The 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:

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]
; G7 _6 |- y' j
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]

5 C: F( K+ ^( }* a, J' Y5 ~8 kLay 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] ;
% @5 t2 M# E" M0 q) J8 [; K          2. Stop bothering or annoying someone, as in Lay off or I'll tell the teacher. [Slang; c. 1900]
) Z) c+ ?# C; [
5 e0 a% z$ c& \$ s- l[ 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