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x slice, x piece...

or one third...

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厉害，学习

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"un vaso di vino della casa rosso" when we made orders at a La Porchetta Italian Restaurant, thinking it meant "a jar of house red" in Italian. But to our surprise, the waiter explained we actually asked some wine made in a red house...

最后发表： funnybird
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customer here who routinely started his first query with the word "shite"...

最后发表： pinxinge
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呵呵，哪位XDJM试试给个评价？俺没有IPhone。

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Paul Tatnell October 26, 2010 - 11:41AM

Australia's biggest brands have been named and shamed in the 2010 Shonky Awards, which recognise the "shonkiest, meanest and silliest rip-offs and scams".

The Shonkys - handed out by consumer group Choice - "awarded" eight companies and products this year, warning consumers they need to be "as vigilant as ever".
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Winners this year include supermarket giant Coles, the Commonwealth Bank, Nurofen, LG, wristband "sporting aid" Power Balance, outdoor recreational rope producer Medalist, website babynamemeans.com and a selection of olive oil brands.

Possibly the most controversial product in this year's awards is Medalist's rope, which was found to be "stuffed with nothing tougher than tissue paper".

Coles won its Shonky for its under $10 meal promotion, which was fronted by celebrity chef Curtis Stone and promoted during MasterChef.

Choice said: "The deal claims you can feed four people for less than $10. The catch is you have to already happen to have some of the ingredients in your pantry, which aren't included in the price."

The Commonwealth Bank picked up an award for its Standard Awards card, which was criticised "for its poor and sneaky rewards".

Choice claims the bank's customers, who spend $12,000 a year under the scheme, will earn only $20 in flights rewards.

Nurofen's Shonky came courtesy of some clever marketing after offering "painkillers labelled for specific pain types such as back, period, migraine".

Choice claims Nurofen painkillers actually contain identical ingredients from product to product.

"The shonkiest aspect of this type of marketing is that the fast-acting painkillers labelled for specific pain types are more expensive," Choice said.

Power Balance bands - which claim to increase an athlete's performance through increasing the natural energy flow - is simply just a rubber band bracelet with a plastic hologram, Choice said.

Choice said the bracelet, which is "endorsed by sporting pros" and sells "for a mere $60 alongside claims it somehow makes you stronger, more poised and just better. The band was tested at Choice under controlled lab conditions, which showed it did little else than empty purchasers' wallets".

In a award that is bound to cause much debate, Choice criticised the quality of olive oil in Australia.

Choice claims it "tested 28 brands of extra virgin olive oil and found half were nothing of the sort due to poor storage".

LG was also named for wrongly stating how much energy one of its fridges uses.

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source: ChinaDaily

China's online video website, Tudou.com, has hired Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank for a planned initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq, aiming to raise up to $150 million, Reuters reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
Tudou plans to list in the first quarter, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The firm expects to raise between $100 million and $150 million, one added.
Tudou, which is backed by venture capital firms such as IDG China, GGV Capital and General Catalyst, competes with Youku.com and Ku6.com in China. The firm is similar to Google's YouTube and Hulu, streaming millions of online videos and original content daily and allowing users to share files.
More recently, Singapore's state investment firm Temasek invested $35 million in the company, whose name means potato in Mandarin, alluding to the image of a couch potato in front of the television.
Tudou had 16 percent of China's online video market in the second quarter, behind Youku, which had 20 percent, according to data from Analysys International.
"The firm is looking at the first quarter (for a listing)," said one source with knowledge of the deal.
Gary Wang, Tudou's chief executive, told Reuters last year that the firm's main source of revenue was from advertising and that it differentiates itself by producing its own content and chasing tie-ups with production houses.
Youku is also pursuing a public listing as soon as the first quarter of next year, and has also hired investment banks, sources previously told Reuters.

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source: Chinadaily

The Chinese government's macro-control measures are still affordable for the real estate industry, and the government might introduce a trial property tax before March, 2011, Shanghai Securities News and China Securities Journal reported on Monday, citing Nie Meisheng, president of the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce.
The central bank's recent interest rate increase did not solely target the real state market, but real estate was the industry most affected by the decision, Nie said at a business forum held in Chongqing.
Nie also said that a property tax might be implemented on a trial basis before March 2011. A total of 600 million square meters of housing properties were sold from January to September. Most listed real estate companies have completed their annual sales plans, so the government's measures are still affordable for the industry, she said.
In addition, Nie suggested that new real estate proposals -- including land grant fees, and land bidding and auction rules -- should be considered in the 12th Five-Year-Plan (2011-15).

最后发表： laurel_dyf
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强帖

最后发表： 阿瓜瓜
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真是令人感同身受阿

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That is really a gas.

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I have a dream, and that dream is to achieve a high level of English proficiency.
I've been working on this goal for three years and I take pride in the progress that I have made.
I am aware that the dream might take a lifetime to come true, but success will provide me with a world which is full of achievement and happiness.

[ 本帖最后由 yearshappy 于 26-10-2010 19:09 编辑 ]

最后发表： pinxinge
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So, what about other cars(Nissan, Toyota, Ford) made in China? They all got 5-star in China's NCAP.

最后发表： gulite120
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经常有黑人和我说中文,我听不懂啊

最后发表： tina-go
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Ls的，你的discover很有趣啊！
我以前也有生词本，刚来这个单位上班时候，老有同事说的表达听不懂，或者听懂了，不会用。我就人家说一句，我写小本子上。哈哈

最后发表： true
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我理解反了，这么说是很有幽默感的思想了

最后发表： rhoda
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I am with Elizabeth.
It seems men and women are always looking at the same thing from different point of view.

最后发表： EnsignKim
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http://www.naati.com.au/pp-index.html

最后发表： 天行健
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那里有关于中药注射剂安全性方面的英文文章！

帮一个朋友问的！请FREEOZ的牛人帮忙呀~~~！！！

最后发表： 虚涵不暖
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事到如今只有说自己不在乎

买V360的原因在于不喜欢一直用沉闷的黑色商务本，偶尔换换颜色用酒红色的V360感觉整个人都清爽了起来。V360虽然看起来比较休闲，其实玩起游戏来是非常给力的，这是我在玩WOW的时候于达拉然的截图，大家可以看到在这种拥挤繁忙的主城里也没有延迟。I3处理器和2G内存可以轻松应对大多数主流游戏，只有小部分比较小众在乎图形渲染的可能稍显吃力。




其实V360用来玩WOW这类MMORPG是完全足够的
顺手测试了一下侠盗猎车4，感觉画质很出众，除了散热量提升之外没有遇到运行上的问题。更不消说什么




布鲁克林区的远景柔和，光影效果处理精细
总之V360我是很喜欢啦，工作娱乐两不误，13寸还很轻巧的说。正为自己的选择而得意的时候，听说最近联想的产品正要降价了，V360和V460都要同时降价。再看了看，发现降价幅度还真不一般，在活动期间买V460和V360可以得到300块一台的Tenda无线路由不说还有别的好康，V460是送200多的笔记本彩壳，而V360就能得到200多的内胆包。这加起来都是将近500块的优惠了，之前买了的我事到如今只好说自己不在乎这点钱了哈哈哈（苦笑）。。




V360在促销季买真是太给力了
仔细看看更是心痛，说是9月22日-10月7日这段时间购买联想v360不只可以获得原厂的包鼠之外，又可以免费获得价值199元的时尚双面内胆包一个和价值299块的Tenda的高速无线路由器一个。妈的仔细算一算都省了将近500块钱了，果然是应该等到中秋国庆这段时间再买机器啊。

事到如今只好说自己不在乎了，不过还是像想买本子的兄弟们吐血推荐这个时段，毕竟现在买能省这么多钱去，促销季的好康可不是随时都能碰上的。

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看美国黑人在电影里骂人，真的很强，绝对少儿不宜啊。。。

最后发表： keepdancing
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我还以为是说脂肪太多呢

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最后发表： pinxinge
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movie goofs

最后发表： cherrywang
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前几天看到有个帖子卖字典，怎么找不到呢？

最后发表： sumgold
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类似我们常说的扯蛋牛B牙烟...

最后发表： sumgold
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主要的两种，一种是很容易抠下来一粒粒的是EPS,
另外一种是像一层层粘起来的，不容易扯烂的是EPE
行业内都是这样叫的，国际通用

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source: www.chinadaily.com.cn
BEIJING - China has raised reserve requirements for six large commercial banks on a temporary basis, a move to drain cash from the economy but avoid over-tightening, Reuters reported on Monday.
The 50-basis-point increase, which takes required reserve ratios to 17.5 percent for the country's biggest lenders, is the first since May this year. The rise will be in place for two months before ratios are returned to their current levels, Reuters quoted sources as saying.
In the limited nature of the increase, the central bank is trying to strike a balance between controlling liquidity and maintaining flexibility lest the economy lose momentum.
The People's Bank of China, the central bank, declined to comment.
Xu Biao, an economist with China Merchants Bank in Shenzhen, said that the central bank was worried that capital inflows could be on the rise in the wake of broader dollar weakness.
"The central bank has to take some pre-emptive moves to control asset prices and inflation risks," he said.
"On the other hand, the targeted and temporary move itself shows that the central bank is cautious about taking tightening steps. In other words, the central bank is reluctant to make any blanket tightening moves," Xu added.
Qing Wang, chief China economist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, said the reserve increase also suggests that bank lending is on the rise again after a year in which Beijing has clamped down on their issuance of credit.
"I suspect September loan growth was strong. Hot money inflows have been rising. But I don't think this is a tightening move. It's just part of liquidity management," he said.
"It's also good for managing inflation expectations."

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我在答雅思作文的时候书写英语时有些困惑，请大家分享一下经验。

我现在的写法是小写字母站在横线上，gpq之类的会穿出横线。
下一行如果不是新段落的话就不空行继续书写。
但是这样下一行的大写字母或者hk之类的会因为比较高便与上一行的gpq之类的交叉了，这样就显得很混乱。

请问大家怎么解决这个问题的？难道是像慎小疑的书上给的本人真迹那样，每行写完都要空一行？
欢迎讨论

另，还有网上说书写的时候无论是首行还是续行都尽量在左右预留一定的空白，不要对齐横线的起始处。这个有什么根据没有？

[ 本帖最后由 x24 于 12-10-2010 01:56 编辑 ]

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http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000178830_98101901485350
source: econ.worldbank.org



EXEUIVE SUMMARY

1.    The property tax is a potentially attractive means of financing municipal
government in developing countries.   As a revenue source, it can provide local
government with access to a broad and expanding tax base.   In contrast to the
mix of intergovernmental grants and indirect taxes that now dominate municipal
revenues, it can also promote broader efficiency objectives, linking the
provision of municipal services more closely to their financing and rationing
the consumption of municipal services by price.
2.    At present, however, yields of urban property taxes in developing countries
are extremely low. Although the tax is ubiquitous- -virtually all market economy
developing countries assign a property tax to their municipal governments--its
contribution to total public sector tax. revenues is negligible, and its share
of municipal revenues is typically less than 20%.

Procedural Reforms

3.    In part, these low yields reflect failures in the administration of the
tax. A large proportion of properties are missing from the tax rolls, properties
on the tax rolls are inaccurately valued, and collection efficiency is extremely
poor.
4.    To an extent,  these administrative failures can be addressed through
procedural reforms:
Coverage can be improved by changing the system used to discover and
identify property, from one relying on owner-declarations to one based on
rudimentary tax maps;
Valuation accuracy can be improved through the use of "mass appraisal"--
a simple, formula-driven valuation method that minimizes reliance on the
judgment of valuers and the honesty of taxpayers;
Collection efficiency can be increased by establishing a system of
collection monitoring that more readily identifies major delinquents, and
by using tax clearances to enforce payment.

Policy and Institutional Reforms
5.    Procedural improvements alone, however, are unlikely to have a significant,
sustained impact on property tax yields.   Unless tax rates are also increased,
the absolute level of property tax liabilities will remain low. Unless a system
for annually adjusting valuations (or tax rates) is introduced, inflation will
rapidly erode the real value of tax liabilities. And unless the disincentives
confronting the agencies responsible for administering the tax are addressed,
procedural improvements in coverage, valuation, and collection will not be
sustained.
6.    This suggests that the scope of reform must be expanded to address the
systems for rate setting and revaluation, and the incentives confronting
administrators of the tax.


7.    Given the diversity of institutional  arrangements  used  in property
taxation, the definition of relevant targets will vary.   Recent experience,
nevertheless, provides general rules:
a. Rate seting. In principle, there is no 'right" rate of property tax.
If the property tax is functioning as a price for municipal services, the
"right" rate is the rate that reflects local preferences.   But the
multiplicity of agencies with veto power over property tax policy
introduces a downward bias in rate setting.  Central government's veto
power over property tax policy is particularly suspect, as it derives no
revenue from the tax.  Control over tax policy should, in general, be
exclusively assigned to the entity most directly affected by it--municipal
gover-ment.
b.  Indexation.  Indexing valuations can help maintain the real level of
property tax revenues during periods of inflation. Because the property
tax is imposed on a presumptive basis, tax valuations do not increase
automatically with rising prices.   To maintain the real level of tax
liabilities, taxing authorities must either revalue annually or increase
nominal tax rates. Annual field revaluations, however, are too expensive,
and annual tax increases are too politically controversial.   Countries
accustomed to inflation address this problem by adjusting valuations "from
the office," on the basis of a common inflation indicator. This solution
should be more widely adopted.
c. Administrative incentives. If central government is responsible
administration of the tax, its characteristic indifference to performan,
of the tax can be addressed by changing the terms on which it provides this
service.  Placing the tax administration agency on a paid, contractual
basis provides it with a direct financial interest in performance of the
tax.

Changing the Structure of Local Revenues
8.    The scope of reform may have to include the entire structure of local
finance.   Judging from recent experience, even providing local government with
complete autonomy over tax policy and administration does not guarantee that the
tax will be exploited effectively. For all its economic virtues, the property
tax carries a high political price. Its effectiveness in confronting taxpayers
with the cost of municipal services gives it an unusually high political profile,
within the tax structure characteristic of developing countries. As a result,
where local authorities have access to less efficient but more politically
acceptable revenue sources, these tend to be exploited first.
9.    Under these conditions, property tax reform can only be achieved in the
context of wider restructuring in the sources of municipal revenue.   Clearly,
the objective of such reform is not to increase property tax revenues, per se:
high property tax revenues are not an end in themselves. But in reducing the
extent of arbitrary subsidies between jurisdictions and confronting local
texpayers with the cost of the services they consume, these changes are
consistent with, and necessary to, the pursuit of the efficiency objective that
is the principal justification for property tax reform.

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佩服楼主！
把自己的东西拿出来给高手们批改是要有很大勇气的！
继续努力，希望下次考试通过！

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Advertisement: Story continues below New York-based GFT director Kathy Lien said that when the Aussie's purchasing power was viewed against the purchasing power of other currencies, it appeared extremely overvalued. ''At an exchange of US98¢, the Aussie is approximately 30 per cent overvalued against the US dollar,'' Ms Lien said.
(广告时间: 最烦插播广告！ ) 继续刚才的话题，位于纽约的GFT公司经理Kathy Lien说，当我们把澳元和其它几个币种的购买力拿来进行对比时，你就会发现，澳元明显估值过高。假设交易汇率是1澳元兑98美分，那么澳元就会被高估了接近30澳分。

''In fact, the Aussie is overvalued against every major currency including the British pound, Japanese yen, euro and New Zealand dollar,'' she said.
“事实上，澳元对包括英镑，日元，欧元和新西兰元在内的所有主要币种都存在估值过高的情况。”她说。


In addition to gains against the greenback, since August 25, the Aussie has risen 5 pence against the British pound to trade recently at 61.8 pence. It has also risen 6 yen on the Japanese currency to be at 80.8 yen, and New Zealand 5¢ against the kiwi to trade at NZ$1.31. The Australian dollar in its 27 years as a freely floating currency has had a long term value of US73.48¢.
从8月25号以来，澳元兑美元再升值，对英镑升了5便士达到61.8便士，对日元升了6日元达到了80.8日元，对新西兰元升了5分达到1.31新元。作为一种自由流通货币，澳元在它27年的历史上，一直维持在73.48美分的汇率水平。


''When valuations become this out of line, the general belief is that it needs to return to more sensible levels but it could be a long time before they do,'' Ms Lien said.
"当它的估值超出它的真实价值的时候，一般来讲，它需要回到一个较合理的估值水平上，这可能需要很长一段时间才能完成。”Lien女士说。

请高手不吝赐教！两个砖头都扔出来了啊

[ 本帖最后由 老林 于 10-10-2010 19:47 编辑 ]

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厉害！厉害！没分啦，以后补上！

最后发表： cayla
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裸奔考的，平时也没去过其他备考网站，于是唐突发在这里，不知道有用否。

听力，
section one讲的一个gg到另一个地方去开会，打电话找当地的mm朋友了解下情况
example是问weather的。
题目记得几个答案jacket， space museum, golf,
然后要去拜访mm父母，记下电话号码和地址。

Section three是marketing strategy， 答案有个color，有个advertisement
题型是要求选哪个地方用了什么marketing方案，
最后jim说的italy好像是different location，另外一个没有听清，貌似是second cheap？待求证。

section four讲的family theme，以railway做主题的park，
起因是visit of another park，
最后讲各个family member负责哪一块的时候说的比较快，得注意听，
我有几个是乱蒙的，就不说出来祸害大家了。

reading做的比较仓促，事先没有模考，所以时间安排不得当。
passage one慢悠悠的做，也没有什么困难，反而忘记的最快。。只记得讲文章大意的时候有一个重复选项。答案集中在前几段，倒数第二段有一个问题考到，仅此而已。

passage two讲的face reconstruction，恢复skull的原脸的。讲了很多人的不同研究。
答案有个mumie的relation 是half－brother，还有某人研究是否晚于某人是FALSE，BACH那个是FALSE，X－ray那个是not given。

passage three时间不够，没看文章直接做了，大概是yawning的研究，是pattern 不是reflet，类似于sneeze，时间6 second，间隔3 second，最后有两个TRUE，一个not given，不过有点猜的性质了，实在没时间。

writting也是写的比较急促，平时说的多写的少，好多单词提笔想不起来，郁闷。擦擦改改反复好几次。
小作文说的是pecentage of those who continue their secondary degree at 18 in four countries between 1996 to 2003, male一个图， female 一个图。我至今还怀疑是不是我两个图数据写反了。因此也题型大家注意一下。

大作文是说限制工作时的利弊。这个很好写拉，和所有其他作文一样，三段论就可以了。

因为身边有人考了3次才过，很理解栽在这的心情，因此就来贡献一把，希望大家烤鸭成功，申请顺利。