一段新闻，学习了三个词组

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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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& W2 y. e5 Z8 q4 w. c; fWe may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.
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. n6 o" u$ B9 |0 @$ T$ F% W; ?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.
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4 S* y: S( m' }9 h# |# ZThe 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".

, C/ L% Z* l; I7 a+ ~The Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.
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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.
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7 x" r# E* m) R/ hAnswers:
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0 F7 f: R  ^! l. G6 S3 b: C$ yChat 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]

9 N* h& p7 N+ h1 a2 L, WHit 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]
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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]

( `/ e2 v: ~/ p3 F# V[ 本帖最后由 卜兆吉尚活 于 2008-8-5 15:11 编辑 ]

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irish

就是说有动机了？可以定一级谋杀。

織紗千影

Thanks for sharing