看新闻，学单词，

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Today’s poll

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楼上两位的建议都不错，可以用。只是yummy是儿语，注意说话对象（如年轻人、有小孩子的家长）。

简单地说：good smell。（足够）
夸张点说：great smell/smells great/fabulous。。。

可以说：did you smell the smell? 这不是very bad English，而是非常标准且文雅的英语。只是古里古气，而且没有赞叹的含义，相反有感觉可疑的味道/意味，类似“闻到有什么气味/味道了吗？”



我可能凭直觉会这么说：Oh,something smells good !


敬佩和感谢各位！学了不少东西。我才发现这个贴，人又笨，只好跟在后面慢慢爬了

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The next municipal election will be held on Monday,
November 13, 2006.

This website(http://www.toronto.ca/elections/index.htm) will provide you with all the information you need to understand the electoral process and how to exercise your right to vote. This website will continue to expand as the election approaches.

The City encourages you to participate in the upcoming municipal election. Voting is a fundamental right of our democracy. When you vote, you are selecting representatives who will make the laws and policies that determine how our City functions and how we live together.

Municipal government is involved in many aspects of our daily lives - from fixing roads, providing water and electricity, collecting garbage, caring for children and the elderly, running public transit, supporting the arts, and protecting our City's citizens. Make an informed choice and browse the City's website to learn about the issues facing Toronto and City Council's many areas of responsibilities.

On Monday November 13, 2006, the citizens of Toronto will be voting for the following offices:

1 Mayor
44 Councillors
School Board Trustees for 4 Local School Boards

Remember, on Monday, November 13, 2006 – it's up to you.

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Learning by using. And to know something about our city and our city's election is a good way to learn and to use English.

An English word learned is useless until it is used properly by the learner.

Here from the city's election website, we'll learn something that we may not know but we might need to know if we are concerned about our daily life as citizens of the city.

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Police officers work at the scene of a school shooting at Dawson College in Montreal September 13, 2006

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Cuban President Fidel Castro smiles while meeting with Argentine congressman Miguel Bonasso (unseen) as he recovers from stomach surgery, in Havana

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures on his arrival at the airport in Senegal's capital Dakar September 13

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poll: 2006/08/29
Does the potential for fraud scare you away from using debit cards?
挑查结果：
yes: 34%
No: 38%
somehow: 28%

看来fraud事关重大，大家都很关心啊

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poll：2006/08/30
Will the JonBenet Ramsey murder case ever be solved?

真的难说。

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顶起来。更需要人接着贴... ...

spring3

坚持就是胜利！

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More evidence that circumcision(割礼， 包皮切除)  appears to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection.
What do you think?

“If my second baby is a boy, you bet he'll be snipped .”
— fundonny “It is aggravated sexual assault ... NO parent has the
right to allow mutilation of their child.”
— David_Leslie “In most tribes in Africa, it’s a rite（仪式）  of passage from boyhood
to manhood. However, the point is if it reduces the
transmissions of HIV, then I say go for it.”
— SeanMcElroy

研究表明：割礼可以大大减少HIV感染

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141楼的图片学英文，方便实用

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Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories.

Today I will tell about expressions using numbers. Let us start with the number one.   Numbers can be tricky.  On the one hand, they are simply numbers.  On the other hand, they have meanings.  I for one use these expressions a lot.  

Many people consider themselves number one, the most important person.  They are always looking out for number one and taking care of number one.   It is as if they are the one and only person on Earth.  Some people however, are not so self-centered.  My brother is such a person.  It is true – no joke.  I am not trying to pull a fast one on you.  

First, you have to understand that my brother is one in a million.  He is such a nice person.   All his friends like him.  They consider him one of the boys.   Recently, my brother had a bad day at the office. It was just one of those days.   Nothing went right.  So he stopped at a local bar -- a drinking place -- after leaving work.  My brother planned to have a glass of beer with his friends -- a quick one –  before he went home.  But a quick one turned into one or two, and soon those became one too many.

As my brother was leaving, he ordered a last drink -- one for the road.  His friends became concerned.  One by one, they asked him if he was able to drive home safely.

Now my brother is a wise and calm person.  He is at one with himself.  He recognizes when he has had too much alcohol to drink.  So he accepted an offer for a ride home from a female friend.

At one time in the past, my brother had been in love with this woman.  She is a great person -- kind, thoughtful and intelligent -- all good qualities rolled up into one.  But sadly their relationship did not work. He always used to say “One of these days, I am going to marry this girl.”   But that never happened.

For one thing, she did not love him as much as he loved her.  It was just one of those things.  The situation was regrettable and my brother had to accept it.  But even now, he considers her the one that got away.  

However, they are still friends.  And because my brother had been kind to her, she felt that one good turn deserves another.  He was good to her and she wanted to help him in return.  So she drove him home.

If my brother had driven home from the bar that night, his number would have been up.  Something bad would have happened.  Thankfully he made it home safely.  And, he and the woman are back to square one.  They are back to where they started – being friends.

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This VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, was written by Jill Moss.  I’m Faith Lapidus.
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OLD DAD
An 88-year-old Indian farmer, who has never heard of Viagra, became the father of a baby boy and has sex daily and wants more kids, The Times of India reported yesterday.
“I don’t want to live to 100 but, as long as I live, I should be able to enjoy sex,” Virmaram Jat was quoted in the newspaper as saying. He says he takes long walks every day and has been drinking fresh camel milk since childhood.

from 24 hours of Toronto
9th, Aug. 2006

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A brother’s plight
The brother of an Israeli soldier whose kidnapping by Hezbollah sparked the latest round of violence in the Middle East says, one month later, the family is still in the dark about the man’s fate.
Although Yair Goldwasser travelled halfway across the world to tell his brother’s story, he remained stoic  while discussing his family’s ordeal . “I’m trying to put my feelings aside,”  Goldwasser, who lives in Israel, said in a downtown Toronto
hotel. “There’s no room for emotion.” Ehud Goldwasser, a 31-
year-old reservist  in the Israeli army, and Eldad Regev, 26, were kidnapped by Hezbollah guerrillas  during a crossborder
raid on July 12.
“Since then, we’re in the dark about his situation,” his brother said.
Israel declared the incursion an act of war and unleashed a hail of air strikes and sent thousands of ground troops into Southern Lebanon. In response, Hezbollah  has fired hundreds of rockets at cities in the Jewish state.
Goldwasser’s brother, wife, mother, and father are on a speaking tour of North America in an effort to draw attention to the soldier’s plight. “We decided not to break into pieces or to sit at home and close ourselves to everything,” his
brother said. Goldwasser was captured while serving the one month of reserve duty required each year until the age of 40. He had one day left when he was captured.

Yair Goldwasser, 26, the brother of kidnapped Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, said he’s not angry, but that “(Hezbollah are) breaking every international law there is.”
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- The Canadian Press
from today's 24 hrs