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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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4 W/ k. o& f; R# A, G3 K& ]8 `We may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.

: q  N2 u5 q7 g4 EInfomation 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.

0 V$ S. l. F( m+ v( f/ w% nThe 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".
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: l& O' t! w  @$ dThe Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.

5 W# }0 Z2 k; t5 m4 A. wThe 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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5 w. C, S/ O- s' Z' j& l7 SAnswers:
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9 m: K+ z# M! X% m2 O; t& g, j! xChat 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]

  b; I- W" e  r( \$ ~! mHit 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 P/ B' k2 R) _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]
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8 c" T  R4 R; `! H% ~, O$ B9 T- x[ 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