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最后发表： 牧马人
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Australia

It's real. The number of abortion is not something people can rig.

最后发表： yearshappy
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嗯，学校也会停一分钟静默， 之后再上课

最后发表： yearshappy
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他所代表的是民众对目前这个体制的的不满，他的票数是民怨的声音与英脱欧澳Pauline Hanson返回同出一辙
这样的力量是忽视不得的。

最后发表： alex456
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个人感觉稍微有质量一点的新闻，http://www.afr.com/， 不付费很多有些页面内容是看不到的。我已经习惯午饭时间看heading了

最后发表： 英特英腾
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最后发表： 西澳海豚
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Six Ways Obama Talks About War Without Saying “War”
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/0 ... -war/#ixzz2er3d5EuI




The rousing rhetoric of a wartime speech is one thing. Trying to explain what the U.S. might do in Syria is quite another, a rhetorical puzzle that Obama’s administration has been trying to piece together for the war-weary American people. In six interviews last night, Obama walked a thin line trying to explain what, exactly, the U.S. should do when another country crosses a red line.

Here are six rules the President and many of his aides seem to be following when it comes to talking about war that isn’t war.

Don’t use the word “war,” of course.

There has long been a stockpile of euphemisms for actions or threats that involve making war, in the dictionary sense of “the employment of armed forces against a foreign power”: any necessary means, regime change, ultimate defense, humanitarian intervention, grave consequences—all options being on the table. In his interviews last night, Obama repeatedly referred to “military action” and even euphemized “military action” as “a significant piece of business” in an interview with PBS. “Everybody knows if you send in Tomahawk missiles and you’ve got the fleet sitting off the coast, those are war-like actions,” says Ken Khachigian, a former speechwriter for Nixon and the chief speechwriter for Reagan. Still, he says, “I wouldn’t say ‘we’re going to war’.”

Talk about what it is by saying what it isn’t.

Whatever the U.S. does in Syria, Obama reiterated last night, will not involve “boots on the ground.” It will not include “sustained airstrikes.” It will not amount to being involved in the “entire Syrian conflict.” The “sectarian civil way in Syria” is one thing, and what the U.S. does is another. He said America will not “embroil” itself. It will not be “long term.” And it will not be “costly.” This military action will not amount to “a military engagement” or “some large-scale invasion,” that would morph into a “slippery slope.” And it certainly wouldn’t be anything like other slippery slopes America has been trying to climb in the Middle East, he said, or “even Libya.”

Say the target is a group of things.   

Obama’s language suggested that the U.S., unlike Bashar Assad, would not really be taking action against human beings. A military strike in Syria is different than one in Iraq or Afghanistan, he implied, because this is a fight against the use of things. His plan is for the U.S. to strike “Assad’s capabilities,” to execute a “set of strikes to degrade his chemical weapons capabilities,” to “deal with this chemical weapons issue.” Our foes in his words are nouns that will never live or breath. “There’s a lot of clinical language that gets used when you’re speaking about the actions taken by your own side,” says former Clinton speechwriter Jeff Shesol. “Your language gets a little looser when you’re speaking about the other.”

Make it sound small.

Secretary of State John Kerry likely went too far yesterday when he said that military action would be “unbelievably small.” As Shesol says, “It starts to sound at a certain point like protesting too much.” But Obama used keywords last night to suggest that, if war was a duel to the death, military action in Syria will be more of a glove to the face demanding satisfaction. He used the word limited no fewer than 10 times, and words like narrow. He repeatedly used the word proportional. What exactly is proportional to a foreign leader’s use of chemical weapons on his own citizens is up for debate, but proportional action implicitly rules out widespread destruction or anything that would be big enough, in theory, to justify another round of retaliation.

Make it sound precise.

The word Obama used last night most often in reference to chemical weapons and why most all of humanity opposes them was indiscriminate. So he emphasized that military action taken by the U.S. would be the opposite of blind slaughter. It would instead be discriminate and “very specific” in a “targeted,” even “surgical,” way. When Obama wasn’t referring to military “action,” he referred to military “strikes,” which also sound much more distinct than bombings or even the use of missiles. Weapons are chaotic; a strike is like an organized bolt of lightning. “They really want people to understand how contained this operation is going to be,” says Shesol. “[A limited strike] sounds very clean. It sounds very technical.”

But make it sound serious.

When NBC’s Savannah Guthrie interviewed Obama yesterday, she said the notion of “limited and consequential” strikes seemed almost a contradiction in terms. But if the U.S. is taking action, Obama has to make it sound like that action will be big and bad enough not only to deter Assad from using chemical weapons and to avenge the death of Syrian innocents, but to dissuade all other malefactors in the world from ever using chemical weapons again. So Obama repeatedly emphasized that military action would be “significant,” and that “the U.S. does not do pinpricks”—even if the U.S. does do small, surgical, limited, targeted strikes against weaponry and other things.

最后发表： MICHELLE07
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对啊，飞在云端。
还是你聪明。

最后发表： MICHELLE07
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Much appreciate

You are a nice person

最后发表： jijigugu
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现在经过Marcia老师的考虑决定，每周六上午10点~12点加开一个基础班，位于189 List St/139 Young St，通过在下在此转达，以方便一些希望参加、但是其它时间没有空的朋友。可以坐公交车123到st Barnabas 教堂门口下，或是坐135到达教堂附近。欢迎有兴趣的童鞋参加

最后发表： BLK
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发个吸引眼球的新闻话题，刺激下英语阅读哈。





A US woman charged in the Arizona stabbing and shooting death of her lover has recounted her abusive past, the numerous boyfriends who cheated on her, her troubled relationships and how her life changed forever the day she met the victim.

Jodi Arias, 32, is accused of stabbing and slashing Travis Alexander 27 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. She initially denied any involvement, then later blamed it on masked intruders before eventually settling on self-defence.

Arias claims Alexander invited her to his home for a day of sex, then turned violent, forcing her to fight for her life. Prosecutors say she killed him in a jealous rage.

She could face the death penalty if convicted in a case that has been US cable news fodder for weeks with lurid stories of sex, lies, religion and violence.
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Arias testified on Monday about her abusive childhood at the hands of her parents, and of a high school boyfriend who once tried to strangle her.

On Tuesday, she told jurors of other boyfriends - before she met Alexander - who cheated on her, lied to her, had alcohol problems and didn't treat her well. The defence claims Alexander, a successful businessman and motivational speaker, too, was abusive, both physically and mentally.

Arias said she first met Alexander at a Las Vegas convention in late 2006 after years of bad relationships, working multiple jobs and struggling to pay bills. She was enamoured by him. She had been in a bad relationship, but after meeting Alexander, everything seemed different. She suddenly saw both personal and professional opportunities, a time to begin enjoying life.

"The things he said to me made a big impression on me," Arias told jurors, often staring directly at the panel as if having a conversation with them. She said Alexander allowed her to "step back and make me look at where I was and where I was going".

He also told her about his Mormon faith, she said.

Arias said she soon ended her relationship with another man and within a week, she saw Alexander again. That's when things became sexual, she testified.

While staying the night at a home of one of Alexander's friends, a day before he was to take her to church, she said the pair engaged in oral sex.

"I didn't want to tell him no so I just kept going with it," she said. "At that point in time, I was not really accustomed to saying no."

Throughout the trial, defence attorneys have depicted Alexander as a liar and a cheater who called Arias derogatory names, belittled her, and told her and other girlfriends that he was a devout Mormon saving sex for marriage, while in reality he was having sex with other women.

Arias's defence is attempting to build sympathy with jurors in hopes they won't convict her of first-degree murder, something that could potentially lead to a death sentence, by establishing a past littered with abuse, said California criminal defence lawyer Michael Cardoza, who has been following the trial.

"What they're doing is trying to elicit sympathy from the jury, to show, look at what this poor person had to go through throughout her life," Cardoza said.

It's a good technique, he said, but it could backfire if her testimony drags too long into the minutia of her life.

"They could start losing some jurors," Cardoza said. "They should really step it up and move it along because if jurors get bored, they could stop paying attention."

The trial began in early January with salacious details about a torrid romance between Arias and Alexander. She claims they dated for about five months, then broke up but continued to see each other for sex. Alexander's friends said she stalked him after the break-up and became possessive and jealous.

Arias said she lied early in the investigation about not being at the scene of the killing because she planned to commit suicide.

Authorities said they found her hair and bloody palm print at the scene of the killing, along with time-stamped photographs on a memory card in a camera discovered inside Alexander's washing machine that place Arias there on the day he died. The photos included one of Arias nude on his bed, one of Alexander alive in the shower, then one of his body on the bathroom floor.

Defence attorneys have yet to explain why Arias apparently attempted to clean the scene, washing Alexander's bedding and the camera, and what happened to the weapons.

Authorities say Alexander was shot in the head with a .25 calibre gun, the same calibre Arias's grandparents reported stolen from their Northern California home about a week before the killing.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/luri ... .html#ixzz2K6ofMekw

最后发表： tony.zheng
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有没必要全民学英语呢？回答是：no。我估计超过4\5住在中国的中国人一辈子也用不了英语。
这调查跟本就是虾扯蛋。

最后发表： yearshappy
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Got two thanks messages from jesyl  
Thanks for your appreciation.

最后发表： yearshappy
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非常棒的想法，成员一定会受益良多
如果你愿意，可另开帖谈关于读书社的成立问题，我会把帖子挂上面

最后发表： mite
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，

[ 本帖最后由 mite 于 8-11-2012 00:14 编辑 ]

最后发表： yearshappy
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[youtube]tuBlc1TL1ak&feature=related[/youtube]

最后发表： black_zerg
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he looks old now

最后发表： xiva
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is there a train/bus station?

最后发表： haha2
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好文章好文章

最后发表： victorzhu
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秘书不称职啊

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最后发表： ellenzhiyi
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今天看到一篇关于在Tafe上英文课的帖子，说到上课内容是读一篇标题为dogged by whiff of controversy的新闻，内容应该说的是是否提倡养嗅觉犬？
这个标题俺看得不太明白，有没有E文好的筒子指点一下，我觉得这个标题相当于一个比喻，又好像很难翻译！呵呵也许俺英文太烂了•••

最后发表： mason00
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/heal ... and-staying-asleep/

Kristen Kemp says she had problem of falling sleep when her three children were born. A problem she had had since her 20s. But after children born, it became worse. To cope with her insomnia, she said she had taken anti-anxiety pill Klonopin for the past four years. Kemp said she had tried different sleeping aids, but Klonopin was the only way that worked.

A 2007 study shows that nearly three in ten nation female used sleeping aids a few nights a week. Experts said that anxiety and stress had made mother dependent on sleeping aids such. According to IMS health, more than 15 million U.S. women between age of 40 and 59 got a prescripton last year to help them sleep.

"Women today have dual roles in society" said Doctor Shelby Harris. "They are working and taking care of family after going back to home, so there are more things on their plate when they coming home at night"

Montefiore’s Harris advised mothers and others to try these seven tips to conquer  insomnia before seeking out medication.

1.Set priorities for the to-do list. Leave the dishes in the sink and just clean off the kitchen table. All the chores don’t have to be done before you go to bed.
2.Give yourself a half-hour to an hour to wind down and relax.
3.One hour before bedtime, make a list of things that need to be done the following day so you’re not brooding over them as you attempt to fall asleep.
4.Limit screen time. Put away the BlackBerry and the computer.
5.Get out of bed if you can’t sleep.
6.Exercise can help you get a good night’s rest.
7.Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day.

最后发表： ruofeng111
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体育、经济。

最后发表： longmel
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not  ssssoo bad

最后发表： 熊猫阿三
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god pls bring back sir steve jobs, and we will give you justin bieber

最后发表： FIRE
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“The Leader of the Opposition said to me, ‘You really expect me to accept an invitation couched in these terms? All I get is bile from you', is what the Leader of the Opposition said to me,'' the Prime Minister revealed.

Ms Gillard said that “in the interests of absolute transparency I believe it needs to be on the public record''.



Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/ ... 91579#ixzz1cHtpmhTa

最后发表： Honghao
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我也想知道  请教  谢谢

最后发表： longmel
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支持支持支持

最后发表： Richard.G
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BERLIN—As Spain's jobs crisis deepens, more young Spaniards are leaving the country in search of greater opportunities in Germany.

The new migration trend highlights the divide between prosperous northern European countries and the fiscally frail south that is at the heart of the euro zone's financial crisis. It also is a threat to Spain's longer-term ability to grow and recover from its financial crisis as thousands of its citizens—especially young, well-educated ones—leave a country incapable of providing them jobs. The country could lose many of its best and brightest, economists say.


The trend is visible at German-language schools in Germany's capital, where a growing number of Spaniards seek to overcome the language barrier to finding a job.

Elena Ballestín, 26 years old, is one of five Spaniards in a class of 17 students at a German-language school in Berlin's trendy Mitte district. She came to Germany a year ago after graduating from the University of Zaragoza with a business degree, struggling to find work.

She lives in a one-bedroom apartment with her German boyfriend and waits tables at a restaurant while she studies the language and looks for a better job. "My parents suffer with me being away, but they think it's better than being unemployed in Spain," Ms. Ballestín says. "And at least I can learn something."

Spain's collapsed real-estate and credit bubbles, combined with rigid labor laws, have left the country with a 21% unemployment rate. According to Spanish government data Tuesday, jobless claims in Spain rose by 77,910 in September and now stand at more than 4.3 million.

Meanwhile, Germany's highly competitive, export-focused economy continues to create jobs, despite slowing growth. Data last week showed jobless claims fell 26,000 in September, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.9% from 7% in August.

Germany needs about 200,000 skilled immigrants a year for its industries, the government estimates. And the country's need for labor is expected to grow as the number of young workers entering the job market declines in coming years, due to Germany's low birth rate.

The Spanish government encourages job-seekers to leave. In January, it signed a cooperation agreement with Germany to push German companies to offer jobs in Germany to out-of-work Spaniards, focusing on the engineering, health and tourism sectors. The arrangement got a publicity boost when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Spain to meet with Prime Minister José Luis Rodgríguez Zapatero to discuss the matter, among other topics.

Eduardo Rodríguez-Priego, a 37-year-old civil engineer from Madrid, moved to Frankfurt in late 2009 after losing his job at a Spanish real-estate company. He had a brother already living in the German financial capital and decided to try his luck there after nine months of a fruitless search for a job in Spain.

"Four months later I found a job, even though I didn't speak any German," Mr. Rodríguez-Priego said.

Experts say the Spanish emigration trend is only just beginning. Carmen González, an analyst at Madrid-based think tank Real Instituto Elcano, says anecdotal evidence, including a jump in language-school enrollments, points to a rising readiness for Spaniards to look abroad for work. "I think we will certainly see a rise in emigration of young Spaniards, especially those with the most qualifications, in the coming years because of the economic crisis," she said.

Because European Union workers can freely move around the region, no exact data exists on how many Spanish workers have gone to Germany this year. But about 17,000 Spaniards have shown an interest in working in Germany through the new government-backed program alone, says John-Philip Hammersen, spokesman for Germany's employment agency, headquartered in Nürnberg.

"You can see that supply and demand come together well. The qualifications of Spaniards are good, companies have told us," Mr. Hammersen says. The most common problem facing Spanish job applicants is the language barrier, he says.

Manfred Ewel, language-education head at the Madrid office of Germany's official cultural organization, the Goethe Institute, said the campus has seen a 25% jump in enrollments since the visit by Ms. Merkel in February. A big portion of the new students are young engineers, architects and information-technology professionals interested in moving to Germany.  "Our teaching staff has to put in extra hours, also in the evenings and on Saturdays," he said.

最后发表： nowaybutgo
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发通缉令了没？怎么报纸上没照片？

最后发表： hwl
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这女的简直就是 变态

最后发表： 熊猫阿三
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我的听写里有，第一篇第一段。
http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/thread-910013-1-1.html

最后发表： cherrywang
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我听到过‘order’或‘all done/well done’之类的，不知道对不对，也不知道是什么意思，有人知道吗？

最后发表： provencedancer
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Who knows! 天晓得！

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最后发表： funnybird
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最后发表： funnybird
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Jez Spinks May 13, 2011

You've bought the counterfeit Rolex and imitation Louis Vuitton bag, but do you own a fake Mini?

If you want the latest in fine automotive forgeries, there's no need to loiter on city streets or lurk behind the back of a truck; just head for the Chinese - rather than the black - market.

The recent Shanghai motor show proved that while China may now be serious business for global car brands, the local makers in the world's biggest new-car market continue to cause chuckles with their inventive unoriginality.

Pseudo-Minis and other motoring equivalents of Dolly the sheep could all be found under the one roof in Shanghai, giving DriveLife the chance to indulge in an entertaining game of Spot the Knock-off.

We're still not sure whether it's an intriguing form of Chinese humour, but the name of the best Mini-mimicker on display - the Emgrand EC6-RV - even seemed to make a mispronounced nod to the car's country of origin.

Read more: http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/chinese-cars-forge-ahead-20110512-1eja7.html

[ 本帖最后由 funnybird 于 13-5-2011 10:44 编辑 ]

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如果我们赢得选举，我们会尽快促进经济增长，提供更好的基础设施服务，恢复政府的信任和诚实，使决定权回归选民。

最后发表： yearshappy
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didn't find any bridges in Brisbane to celebrate  

最后发表： nizi
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OK people, calm down. We know we haven't seen royal-bride-to-be Kate Middleton at a public engagement for some months now, but just breathe!

This morning Kate and her future husband, Prince William, stepped out at the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station at Anglesey for their first public outing since the engagement announcement.

More importantly than the news that she was there to launch — and name — a lifeboat, is the question: Who and what was Kate wearing?

Kate is setting herself up as a great supporter of British fashion and having that quintessentially British-thrift-shop sensibility à la Kate Moss.

Kate Middleton's favourite fashion label Issa shows at London Fashion Week

Kate Middleton's style staples

She wore a coat by London-based designer, Katherine Hooker, which she was snapped in at the Cheltenham Gold Cup, waaay back in 2006.

And the accessories? Kate sported a pheasant feather and brown felt fascinator by Vivien Sheriff, brown stockings, gloves and clutch by LK Bennett and Russell & Bromley ankle boots. That's Brit head-to-toe!

While Kate's wedding dress designer still remains a closely guarded secret (literally: apparently Princess Diana's dress had body guards in the lead up to the wedding!), rumours continue to fly around about who will make the gown, and the latest name to drop is Victoria Beckham.

"I think she's got someone she's discovered, like her own secret discovery, and it'll be made in absolutely top secret conditions and we won't know until on the day but I suspect it'll be something beautiful," the UK Daily Telegraph's fashion critic Hilary Alexander told Reuters.

While we can hardly believe that VB will be the designer, anything is possible in a fairytale royal wedding. Eek!

身材很好。