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觉得先听一段，再看段字幕看那些听不懂的地方，感觉不全是听力的问题，更多的是常用口语/俚语不知道，所以听不出来。

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今天想写点自7月5日以来我内心的感受--悲痛!悲哀!(文章已经被删除过,应该很快又要被删除了.昨天,维族人已经在澳洲"恶人先告状",扮无辜的在街上游行了,博外国人的同情!也在昨天,中国ZF已经放了很多参与打砸抢的维族学生,说给他们机会,谁又能给被这些畜生杀害的汉族同胞重生的机会!中国对待维族的软弱政策也另人发指!)
就在7月5日20点,新疆美丽的首府乌鲁木齐市遭受了东突恐怖袭击!官方现在说死150多人,伤1000多人,但并未说明是汉族,维族还是其他民族的同胞!在这里,我不是想煽动民族情绪,我想把事实说出来而已!因为最近我听见身边有人为此在骂中国政府,有人因为同情维族人说中国没有人权,屠杀维族人(这些都是黑白颠倒的).这些话都让我感到悲哀! 经过这次几乎发生在我身边的噩梦,我彻彻底底明白了一个道理:不能打着所谓人权的旗号,妄加评论任何事情!
我的很多朋友都生活在乌鲁木齐,他们是最有发言权的!从7月6号,我就在和我的乌鲁木齐朋友们通过手机联络(其他通讯设施都不能用),他们都逃过此劫,但还在惊恐中,上班都随身带着"武器"以防万一.可是不是所有的汉族同胞都这么幸运的,我的一个也在澳洲的朋友(新疆人),他朋友的手筋被维族恐怖分子挑断,亲哥哥失踪到现在,估计已经遇害了! 我想很肯定的告诉大家,在医院的伤者,在停尸间等家属认领的死难者,他们决大多数是非维族人的!西方媒体早在7月6号就进入乌鲁木齐采访了,另人气愤的是,有很多西方媒体还在黑白颠倒的向着恐怖分子说话,甚至夸张的说死伤都是维族人,他们是在广场和平游行被警察打死打伤的,说法另人发指,他们和杀人凶手的帮凶有什么区别!大家想想去年在西藏的暴乱吧,那个时候我们就已经看清西方媒体的嘴脸了!请永远都不要对他们抱以厚望!我们都会对中国ZF有不满,但在这个时候,请不要再被西方媒体洗脑了,我们要的是和平和谐的社会!不要被那些看热闹,惟恐中国不乱的家伙所利用!我们这个受苦受难的国家走到今天不容易! 试想如果你的家人现在在乌鲁木齐经历了这场屠杀,你还会叉着腰骂都是中国政府的错,为那些杀人犯抱不平,去可怜暴徒吗?这是所有中国的敌对势力想达到的效果!还在自以为尊重人权和不明白事理的无知者!你们开开窍吧!你也是中国爹妈生的!中国人不能再一团散沙被反华势力左右摆布了!
听听国内大多数民众的心声吧!特别是新疆受到伤害的同胞的心声吧!不要被恶毒的人蒙蔽了!那些对CHINESE G不满的还是中国人的同胞,请你们先放下这些不满,就事论事!为死难的汉族同胞哀悼!
最后我只想说一句话:不能因为维族恐怖分子的历史遗留问题作为借口,来说他们的暴行是对的,值得同情的..他们中落网的一部分会得到中国法律公平严格的制裁!只可惜不是全部暴徒! 为他们申讨所谓公平的人只有两种,一种是他们的帮凶!一种是不明事理的无知者!
大家可以不相信不去看国内官方的新闻,以下是一些国内朋友BBS上文章和网友评论的网址,读读他们的心吧!
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http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4 ... =rela_articletagpub(杀汉族同胞的魔鬼!)PS:文章已经被删除过,应该很快又要被删除了.昨天,维族人已经在澳洲"恶人先告状",扮无辜的在街上游行了,博外国人的同情!也在昨天,中国ZF已经放了很多参与打砸抢的维族学生,说给他们机会,谁又能给被这些畜生杀害的汉族同胞重生的机会!中国对待维族的软弱政策也另人发指!

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it is a bloody joke

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《花花公子》十大派对大学出炉


Playboy magazine on Friday named the University of Miami as the top party school in the United States based on five criteria that included a nod to brainpower.



Playboy magazine on Friday named the University of Miami as the top party school in the United States based on five criteria that included a nod to brainpower.

The adult magazine, which has only occasionally published the party college list in the past but will now turn it into an annual feature, ranked the schools on campus life, sports, sex and academics, or "brains," as Playboy put it.

As a last criteria, Playboy included "bikini" which combined weather, guy-to-girl ratio and cheerleaders.

But absent from the credentials were college bars and parties that exist on the fringe of campus life.

"In order to make the list, you had to be a school where fun happens, so we threw that out and went to other criteria," said Playboy Assistant Editor Rocky Rakovic.

Rakovic also said it was hard to quantify just exactly what made a good bar scene from campus to campus, because each location had its specific attributes.

"You can't say keg party at Arizona State is much better than bar crawl at (University of) Wisconsin," he explained.

On the subject of brainpower, Rakovic said that criteria was important because, after all, "you are in college for a reason, to get an education."

Judging the intelligence of U.S. university students turned into a rather scientific equation, too, using things like grade point averages, freshman retention and Princeton academic reviews, then giving them a numerical weight and averaging results.

The one surprise, Rakovic said, could be the No. 6 school University of Wisconsin because the "bikini" ranking favored schools with warm weather climates.

Playboy began ranking party colleges 20 years ago. The full list is in the magazine's May issue and on the Internet at www.playboy.com/partyschools09.

The top 10 party schools are below in order of rank:

1) University of Miami

2) University of Texas (Austin)

3) San Diego State University

4) University of Florida

5) University of Arizona

6) University of Wisconsin (Madison)

7) University of Georgia

8) Louisiana State University

9) University of Iowa

10) West Virginia University

最后发表： stellahie
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大家都那么好学。我不认真一点也不行了。

在英联邦国家（Commonwealth countries），同级别的官员通常是高级专员（High Commissioner），但他代表政府（government）而不是国家元首【可能因为它们的国家元首都是英国国王或女王】。

Link：http://blog.163.com/rhineale@126 ... 472009014112627228/

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Teen tries to ignite chemicals at police station
Paul Bibby
July 6, 2009 - 10:09PM

A 14-year-old boy attempted to ignite a concoction of chemicals at a police station on the NSW north coast this afternoon, police say.

The teenager allegedly walked into Port Macquarie Police Station at about 1.20pm and attempted to light a bottle containing a mixture of chemicals.

Officers immediately arrested the boy, set up an exclusion zone around the station, and called in NSW police's hazardous chemicals team. No police personnel were injured and the area was declared safe at about 3pm.

The type of chemicals involved in the incident is not yet known, but the teenager has been charged with possessing a dangerous thing with intent to injure, and intimidating police.

The 14-year-old was denied bail and is currently undergoing a medical assessment.

He will appear in Port Macquarie Children's Court tomorrow morning.

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good

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the most spectacular viewing platform on canyons are follows

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同问，关注！

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我想在中国买一台快译通，请问哪一个牌子和型号比较经济，实用？请指教.

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正解

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谢谢大家！

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你这是怎么说的话呢？好像这个是什么不良倾向，或者见不得人一样，说出来听听，否则我不知道你有多龌龊。

最后发表： 熊猫阿三
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恩，英国那边听录音给分

最后发表： axyl
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俺在家教孩子们中文都是讲故事，那个女士的什么程度阿，周末有空，义务辅导，当然，前提是能胜任，不胜任就没有办法了

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我们也报了LLNP,等待面试中 。。。

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我用这两种：
Hygiene Laundry Rinse （http://www.canesten.com.au/productrangefr.html）


         
Dettol Antiseptic Disinfectant

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但同志中的爱情，似乎日久生情的不多，至少在国内我感觉是这个样子的。

最后发表： yearshappy
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Learn and learn, study and study

最后发表： nizi
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麻烦大了！

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bu cuo  支持下

最后发表： stellahie
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这个网站解释的不错：http://www.ichacha.net/search.aspx?q=syndicate


英-英解释
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
同义词：crime syndicate, mob, family,

an association of companies for some definite purpose
同义词：consortium, pool,

a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication

join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated"

organize into or form a syndicate

sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations

例句与用法
1. lloyd s syndicates already have a presence in hong kong.
劳合社亦已在香港营业

2. use the atom format for syndicating news and more
使用Atom格式连锁新闻及其他内

3. the syndicate is tightly structured with a succession plan
组织严密，继承有

4. hk 17.35 billion five-year syndicated term loan facility
五年期定期银团贷

5. ifc consortium signs largest syndicated loan
国际金融中心获最高金额银团贷

6. loco-london silver fraud syndicate members jailed
伦敦银骗案集团成员被判

7. the group encouraged syndicated tender for this project.
该集团鼓励此项目的联合投标。

8. banks will try to syndicate it again soon.
银行很快就会再次进行融资尝试

9. suspected syndicated corruption in macao marine police
澳门水警集体贪污

看来用法还挺多的。我也学了一些新知识。

最后发表： stellahie
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Non-contravention应该是“不违反”的意思。

举2个例子:-

NON-CONTRAVENTION. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not (a) violate in any material respect any federal, state or local law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation which is or may be ...

Non-contravention of applicable laws - including other statutes and court orders.

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没有学英语的窍门 ==== > CHANGE A SCHOOL IF U CAN

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呵呵，多谢分享。希望更多人可以来说说。

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does anyone know a good tutoring class for my son in year5?

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天啊，保佑我口语过7吧。

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这句话听起来不顺,但确是对的. what does this sentence mean. 陈述句:it(this sentence) means ...
或者可以说: what's the meaning of this sentence? The meaning of this sentence is

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哈哈，原来来自这个WOW

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http://www.britishcouncil.org/le ... asts-elementary.htm
这个系列podcast很不错的，虽然是英国口音，跟澳洲的应该比较接近了

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president
governor
senator
mayor
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beggar

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the most up-to-date

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I don't believe God. However, I believe the belief of God improved the equality of all people in some stage of history.

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谢谢楼上朋友的翻译，我还以为是邮寄申请的意思呢。

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Entertainment
3 Jun 2009
In chime with our times: Kit Hungby Nigel Collett
Fridae meets Kit Hung, director of the award winning film, Soundless Wind Chime, which will hit Hong Kong screens in the summer, followed by cinemas in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Ideas drive Wing Kit Hung, old ideas, cuttingedge ideas, concepts refracted by images that give birth to newreflections. He’s fascinated by weaving different things together,traditional Chinese thought, maybe, with the electronic cultures thathold sway across the net, and by juxtaposing things that are ordinaryin their own setting, bringing them together to make themextraordinary. He is always a director with a message, a film makervery much in keeping with the times.



Kit Hung

So when I met him for tea at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong (he drankaerated water to my coffee), to discuss his career and his new film, Soundless Wind Chime(无声风铃), we soon got into philosophy, myth, activism and socialpolitics. But before jumping in too deep here, let me put Kit incontext for those who have yet to have the pleasure of seeing his work.Many of us will know him as one of Hong Kong’s three prominent makersof films with gay themes (the others being Simon Chung and Scud) andthe director of 2001’s award-winning I Am Not What You Want.

Kitwas born and educated in Hong Kong, taking his first degree in Designat the Polytechnic University before turning his back on a commerciallife and launching into film. At the Poly U, he was lucky enough to betaught Hong Kong culture by Yau Ching, a Hong Kong LGBT activist andwriter who helped his personal breakthrough both in terms of the way hecould fit his gay sexual orientation into Hong Kong society and of whathe wanted to do with his life. The University allowed him to make a35-minute film as his graduation project. This, actually his secondfilm (the first was In My Space of Loneliness, his ownfeelings about his then boyfriend collected into a five-minute short,made with his own video camera in 1999), was entitled [:nv:s:b/e peop/e]and was a film exploring human communications in cyber space. Its twocharacters, Moon and Sue, never speak, just type text to each other,yet connect so strongly to each other and to others in Hong Kong thatthe film concludes with the Moon God’s red ribbons linking the entirecity. Made in 2000, the film was shown at the Transmediale Festival inBerlin and was successful enough to encourage Kit to go on, which hedid the next year with I Am Not What You Want, a phenomenallysuccessful movie which held 2nd place for 11 weeks in HMV’s video salesand was shown at a large number of international festivals, winning theSpecial Jury Prize at the Festival ‘De Drake’ in Belgium.

I Am Not What You Wantbroke the mould in more than sales. Much of its popularity can be putdown to the simplicity and charm of the very innocent love affair itshows developing between two very ‘normal’ New Territories boys. It isan infectiously joyous film in which gay love is drawn just like anyother and which has, for once, a happy ending. Audiences, straight andgay, warmed to it.

“Hong Kong is desperate for this kind ofrealistic representation of normal gay life,” Kit told me. “My ambitionwas to make it so ordinary, and I got a lot of comments like ‘I’m notgay, but I like the film’ so I think I succeeded in getting across tomainstream society the idea that gay life isn’t different and that gaypeople shouldn’t feel isolated.” This worked even for his mother, whohad hardly talked to him for the six years since he’d come out; thefilm includes a scene based on what had happened at Kit’s home wherethe family sit in embarrassed silence throughout dinner. When she sawthe scene, his mother telephoned him in Chicago and told him sheunderstood and that she knew now that he’d really achieved something.


Screenshots from Soundless Wind Chime

Kit’s mother could not have ignored his sexual orientation. He came outat school at the age of 19, where he’d always known of his differencefrom most of his classmates, to whom he was a bit of a ‘sissy’. He wasthen exposed to the very camp atmosphere of Metro Broadcast radio,where he worked part time. A search on Yahoo for ‘Gay Hong Kong’ tookhim to a university where for the first time he met a lot of other tongzhi.Kit now embraced his sexuality and threw himself into gay activism. Atthe Polytechnic University, he was cofounder of the ‘Gay and LesbianOrientation Camp’ which gathered over a hundred university studentstogether in the country in 1997, as well as a committee member of theJoint University Queer Union, where he met Kenneth Cheung and Tommy Jaiand which was the foundation for what later became Rainbow Hong Kong,the LGBT drop in centre and activist group in Kowloon. Later, inChicago, Kit founded the first Queer Film Festival at the School of ArtInstitute, a one-off six-day celebration of gay and lesbian film.

Kit was in Chicago due to the success of I Am Not What You Want,which won him a scholarship to study for a MFA in Studio at the Schoolof Art Institute of Chicago. Here, Kit made the 38-minute short Buffering,a story examining long distance relationships and linking technologyand the ordinary world, featuring Hong Kong singer-song writer ChetLam. This won plaudits at film festivals worldwide, including in Turin,and secured him invitations to the Berlin film festival’s BerlinaleTalent Campus in 2003 and 2004, a melting pot of European film talentthat brought him many of the contacts that he has been able to workwith until today. He also began work on Soundless Wind Chime,though this took many years to bring to fruition. Initially, this was aproject involving both Kit and a lesbian friend. They separately wrotealternate scenes involving a lesbian and a gay couple, each allowingthe other to continue the tale. Sadly, his partner dropped out,depressed by the difficulty of interesting commercial backers in themovie and taking her lesbian stories with her, leaving Kit alone withhis gay characters and the struggle to complete the film.

In themeantime, Kit found himself in Switzerland, home of the German Swisswho became and remains his partner. It was a base from which hecontinued to develop his own style in half a dozen music videos forrecording artists from China, Hong Kong (Chet Lam and Kelly Cha) andSwitzerland (the popular Swiss singer- song writer, Signorino TJ) andan opening short for the Amsterdam Film Festival. What links all thesepieces is the desire, both of Kit and of artists like Chet Lam withwhom he works, to break moulds and to escape the clutches of thecommercial hardcore. “I use hi-tech methods to create something raw,touchy” he says. “Especially for Signorino TJ, I developed a style likethe Monty Python cartoons, which he had introduced to me.” He also madevisuals for a Liverpool-based film company for two children’s theatreproductions in Switzerland; this too, mixed multi-media elements intothe form of a TV game involving ten characters played by three peoplewearing masks, typically for Kit linking techniques both ancient andnew.

All the time, though, Kit was pulling together the script, finance and cast for Soundless Wind Chime.The project received new motivation in Switzerland, where Kit’spartner’s parents both died within a short space of time and Kit foundhimself wanting to talk to the dead as though they were still there.So, he wrote new parts of the film, parts which form its heart, toresolve the issues which faced him; issues of loss, of dealing withgrief, of the denial and the need for final acceptance of death.Rebirth features, in a semi-Buddhist sense and in the reincarnation ofa dead person in the form of another who looks the same, maybe is thesame, but has no memory of any former life and so can never be the sameperson. Western viewers may miss some of this on first viewing (forinstance the old couple and the young boy parting at the start of thefilm recalls, to those who know the Chinese story, the old woman whogives the about-to-be reborn soul its soup of forgetfulness before itcrosses the bridge to this world). Inevitably, almost all will missmany of the personal references in this film. Yet the scenes arisingfrom Kit’s own experiences in Switzerland, the old Chinese womandancing, the girl playing the violin, all fit seamlessly into thesurrealist atmosphere of the country he recreates.

“I alsowanted to show an inter-racial relationship like my own,” Kit adds,“something that was part of me. There are so few shows which show this.I can think only of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and Simon Chung’s Innocentthat do this well. It needs a lot of sensitivity to describe this.” Thetwo leading actors are both outsiders, one a mainland Chinese the otherSwiss. Lu Yulai plays a poor Chinese restaurant worker recently arrivedin Hong Kong and Bernhard Bulling has two roles, as Pascal, a vagabondSwiss thieving for a meagre living in Hong Kong, and Ueli, hisreincarnation (or doppel gänger, perhaps), a gentleshopkeeper in rural Switzerland. The first two characters are alsooutsiders, the third is cut off from his family through grief. All canscarcely communicate in words, hence the title, for the very realcommunication that eventually leads to love between the characters isby means other than sounds, chimes singing from the soul, far moreeffective than mere vocal chords. Pascal dies and maybe is, maybeisn’t, resurrected as Ueli, but how is not important to these themes.Again, Kit breaks stereotypes and, through subconscious linkages,surprises and persuades his audience.

Soundless Wind Chimeis already a success; winning the Best Feature Film, Nuovi Sguardiaward and a special mention under the Special Jury award at the 24thTorino GLBT Film Festival last month as well as a Teddy Award (theofficial LGBT award) nomination at the 59th Berlin International FilmFestival. It is now distributed by Hong Kong’s Golden Scene and willhit Hong Kong screens in the summer, followed by cinemas in NorthAmerica, the United Kingdom and Europe. There’ll be a DVD, it seems, bythe end of the year. By then, Kit will be deep into his next project, amusical film, and is moving for the time being to Hong Kong to work onit. Here he’ll also carry on doing other things as well, includingteaching at the City and Polytech Universities. His next film, he says,will not, for once, be a film with a gay theme, but then Kit doesn’tbelieve his earlier films have just been ‘gay films’ either, ratherfilms about relationships in which the characters happen to be gay.“Gay films have been an opportunity for me,” Kit confesses. “They arenot a limitation. To make something close to you it’s easier to workwith the greater energy and passion that your feelings and experiencebring to the screen. My films have given me the chance to show what Ican do,” he adds. Paradoxically, he believes that the next few years,difficult though they may be economically, may give independent filmmakers opportunities as the big commercial projects find fewer backers.“There’ll be a lot of creative hunger that’ll need filling up.” He forone intends to rise to this challenge.