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谢谢oldestmonk的回复
我其实对法律职业还是蛮感兴趣的 最好能继续从事公司法相关事务
你的回复对我来说是好消息啊 ：）

律师在澳洲稳定吗？在国内做律师都得自己找案源，感觉很不稳定啊。或者您是指非诉律师吗？还是因为在澳，大家的法制观念强，所以律师的市场比较大？
要取得律师资格，得1.念LLM或JD，2.通过澳洲的bar exam,3.在律所实习 是吗？真是路漫漫啊。刚才在国内经历了这些，现在还要再经历一次。需要很大的勇气呢。

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http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/contractions.aspx

Contractions
A listener named Alex asked, “What’s the history of contraction in English usage? I just heard an interview with the Coen brothers about the movie true Grit. They point out that they were at the paint to avoid the use of contractions for an authentic 1860s American setting.”

The Coen brothers did say something like this. In a Newsweek interview, they were asked, “Did people actually not talk with contraction that time?” and they answered, “We’ve been told that the language and all that of formality is faithful to how people talked in period.”

The History of Contractions
Unfortunately, the Coen brothers were misinformed. Mark Liberman of the linguistic blog Language Log found the original True Grit novel by Charles Portis contains both contracted and uncontracted form. For comparison, however Liberman looked at two other novels, including Tom Sawyer, published in 1876, and found that those novels were more likely to include contraction than True Grit, so there’s really some contraction avoidance in the novel True Grit. May be Portis wrote that way for characterization, Liberman suggests. He also quoted a paper of Journal of English Linguistics on the history of contractions with “not.” It said that they first appeared in the writing at the beginning of the 17th century, increasing at the 18th, and more or less accepted in the 19th.

In fact, they were even contractions before 1600s, but at that time they usually weren’t indicated with an apostrophe, because the apostrophe was still a recent invention. Going back more than a thousand years, Old English has a class of contracted verbs. For example, the verb seon, “to see,” was a contraction of the earlier seohan. So contraction is not a recently development in English.

When to Use Contractions
In episode 201, we converted that most of contentious of contractions, “ain’t.” Our advice was
        In business, scholarly and other formal writing, omit “ain’t”, unless it’s used
in direct quotation, and never go around saying it in general conversation
unless it’s part of the joke or well-known saying. In dialogue or to convey a
vernacular tone in prose, use it with discretion. Treat it as spicy mustard;
don’t make a whole sandwich from it.
But why did “ain’t,” a potentially useful contraction that fills the gap where we could use a contraction of “am not,” come to be so disrespected? In Origins of the Specious, Patricia O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman wrote that “ain’t” was first used in place of both “am not” and “are not,” then for “is not,” and later, even for “has not” and “have not.” As O’Conner and Kellerman write: “’Ain’t’ claimed to have so many parents that it seemed illegitimate.”

In episode 168, we talked about respectable contractions that should nonetheless be used with care. Some are ambiguous. For example, when you read the “the dog’s,” It might be a possessive, as in “the dog’s tail”; it might be the contraction of “the dog is”; or it might be a contraction of “the dog has.” Usually the rest of the sentence will make it clear which you mean but not always, so it’s worth keeping the ambiguity in mind. For example, the sentence “I’d never run that fast” could mean “I had never run that fast” or “I would never run that fast.” Maybe the context will make it clear, but why not make it easier on the reader by writing out “I had” or “I would”?

Episode 168 also covered contraction of “have,” such as “would’ve”, “could’ve,” and “should’ve.” Whether you write these as contraction or two words, they still sound much the same as in everyday speech, so the contractions don’t save you any syllables. For that reason, our advice is to avoid them. All the more so for awkward double contractions such as “I’d’ve” and “it’ll’ve.”

Many Style Guides Recommend Using Contractions
You don’t have to avoid the contractions in all your writing. Many style guides even recommend using contractions. The Chicago Manual of Style says: Most type of writing benefit from the use of contractions. If used thoughtfully, contractions in prose sound natural and relaxed and make reading more enjoyable.

Brain Garner’s Modern American Usage advises:
The common fear is that using contractions can make the writing seem breezy. For most of us, thought, that risk is nil. What you gain should be a relaxed sincerity – not breeziness.

The federal government’s Plain Language website agrees with Garner, and adds:
“Write as you talk” is a common rule of writing readably, and the best way to do that is to use contractions. People are accustomed to hearing contractions in spoken English, and using them in your writing helps them related to your document.
Just Don’t Overdo It
So in short, use contraction in formal writing if it will sound stranger to avoid them than to use them. (If this advice sounds familiar, you might be remembering our episode on vulgar language, where we gave similar advice.) Of course, you don’t run the risk of offending your readers with contractions the way you wish swear words, but still, if you use any and all contractions just because you’re allowed to, your risk sounding awkward an distracting your readers, instead of making you writing easier to read – which is the whole point of using contractions in the first place!

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还在苦等中...

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作为同行强力

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Professional conclusion.
I am a dance lover. Keep in contact.

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体育、经济。

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就这么沉了啊 没人了解知道水电行业吗？

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90个点击，没一个人回复吗
求高手指导，我真的好迷茫。

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http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/punctuating-questions.aspx

Punctuating Questions
Today’s topic is how to format questions.  You think you already know this, don’t you? I wonder if you are right.

Everybody knows how to write a vanilla question: What’s new? They are called direct questions. But there’re trickier scenarios. What happens if a sentence seems to be a half question, a half statement? What if you are asking an indirect question, or asking a question that also seems to require exclamation point, or dealing with a quotation that contains a question, and so on?

Questions Masquerading as Statements
Sometimes even direct questions are tricky because they can look like statements, and the only way to tell your reader is to add a question mark. There’s a big difference in meaning between “He went to the store.” and “He went to the store?” Yet the only difference between these two sentences is that one ends with a period and one ends with a question mark. The question mark makes it a direct question that shows surprise. What the heck was he doing at the store?

A Question Flurry
What if you have a bunch of questions and you want to string them all together? There’s a funny scene in a movie (I think it was Cats & Dogs) where a dog realizes he can talk, and it goes something like this: You can hear me? Can I have a cookie? two cookies? four cookies? twenty cookies?

Those add-on questions at the end aren’t complete sentences but they each get a question mark anyway. It reads as it is and so on. They aren’t complete sentences, so you usually don’t capitalize the first letter. The rules are vague, though. Some books say to capitalize the first letter if the questions are nearly a sentence or have sentence-like status, so you want to use your own judgment. I don’t consider “two cookies” to be nearly a sentence, but I may consider something like “two cookies and squeaking ball to chase” to be nearly a sentence, which would make me think about capitalize it.

Statements with Tag Questions
Now, what about those little questions come at the end of statement? You didn’t forget my birthday, did you? It is fun to play marimbas, isn’t it? Bits like did you and isn’t it are called tag questions and they turn the whole sentence into a question, so use a question mark at the end.

Indirect Questions
Do you have a curious nature? Do you wonder about things? When you wonder, your statement might sound like questions, but they’re not direct questions, they’re indirect question, and they don’t take a question mark. For example, I wonder why he went to the store. It’s an indirect question – essentially a statement – so there’s no question mark. I wonder if Squiggly would lend me his marimbas. Again, it’s not a question.

Question in Quotation Marks
Next, where do you put the question mark when you are using quotation mark? It depends on the sentence – is the whole thing a big question, or is only the part in quotation marks a question?
If the whole sentence is a question, then you put the question mark outside the quotation mark. Here’s an example: What do you think Squiggly meant when he said, “The fish swam darkly up the river”? The whole sentence is a question, so the question mark goes at the very end (outside the quotation marks).

On the other hand, if only quotation is a question, then the question mark goes inside the quotation marks. Here’s an example: Squiggly ran up to Aardvark and asked, “Where are the fish?” The question mark goes inside the quotation marks because the only part of the sentence is a question is Where are the fish?

It helps to remember the question mark stays attached to the question whether it is the whole sentence or just the quotation.

Indirect Questions Mixed with Direct Questions
It gets really crazy when you mix direct and indirect questions together. There’re multiple ways to write something like: The question at hand is, who stole the cookies? The simplest way to write that is to put a comma after the indirect question and a question mark after the direct question.

Believe it or not, some style guides allow you to capitalize the first letter in a direct question, even though it comes the mid of the sentence: The question at hand is, Who stole the cookies? Supposedly, capitalize the first letter in the question places more emphasis on the question, but I think it makes the sentence disjointed.

And if you think that looks wired, it gets even worse. If you flip the two parts around, you can put a question mark in the middle of your sentence: Who stole the cookies? was the question at hand.

It’s good to know the rules, but these sentences seem so contorted that I think it is better to try to rewrite them. I could easily convert the sentence to an indirect question: Every one wondered who stole the cookies. Or I could use a colon to make the sentence less odd: One question remained: Who stole the cookies?

Polite Requests
Here’s another strange rule: some style guides say that polite requests phrased as recommend putting a period at the end of sentence like: Would you bring me the marimbas. I find this very odd, since it is clearly a question, but the rationale is: that it is really a demand masquerading as question.

Surprising Questions
Finally, when you asking a question in surprise such as “What”? It isn’t appreciated to use multiple question marks or question mark with exclamation point. You’re supposed to pick the terminal punctuation mark that is most appreciated and use just one. Is your question more of a question or more of an outburst?

I’ve always found that solution unsatisfactory, so I was thrilled to learn that there’s an obscure punctuation mark that was designed exclusively for asking questions in a surprised manner. It’s called an interrobang, and it looks like an exclamation superimposed on a question mark.

You shouldn’t use the interrobang in formal writing, but I think it would be great if people started using it on blog and in other informal communications. If you have the Wingding 2 font in your word processing program, you can insert an interrobang as a special character, and there’re Unicode values that you can use to insert the interrobang to your web site. I’ve put them at the bottom of script.

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报酬从优是什么概念，能具体点吗？

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以前，我也去过教堂学英语。
确切地说，应该是去听英语。
因为，还是一句话也没听懂。

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IVAN good name
I do think a man is named such a classical name IVAN suggests he is strengthful enough , thick shoulder,brave and cool even his face is outlined with majestic golden moustache.

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才320美金...中囯人对智慧財產真的很低估啊.........

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不难，好像不是很有用。

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估计楼主是四大的。。

否则LOCAL EXPERIENCE 对一般国内过来的会计就是一个很难逾越的槛。因为对大多中介来说 ，这不是一个可以ARGUE 的问题。没有本地经验就直接被筛选出局了。。

[ 本帖最后由 klron 于 20-11-2011 20:52 编辑 ]

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Super bad: worst funds revealed

http://www.smh.com.au/money/supe ... .html#ixzz1eBGi5EB2

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请帮忙小额汇款到澳洲CITI账户，50-100澳元均可。
我可以支付人民币到您的中国境内任意银行账户，支付宝账户等。
可以帮忙的，请留联系方式。谢谢

P.S.各位给点意见怎样汇款从中国到澳洲citi最实惠？

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开好户了，是在汇丰。按说是很简便的，不用任何章，只要公司文件就可以，可是我们还是跑了3次。
第一次，因为是TR，需要我们国内的有地址名字的信件或证件
第二次，我们下午3点去的，大概是因为接近下班时间，诸事不顺，结果直到临走手续都没办完，应该早点去的
第三次，一大早就去了，终于办好了。
其实还留了个尾巴，结果2天后银行职员跑到我家送了份文件给我们，才算彻底办好手续。
汇丰的服务是挺好的，接待我们的是中国人，沟通也挺方便，总体还不错。

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学英语不是参加这种培训班就能学好的。。。关键还是看基础。。。

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not  ssssoo bad

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好久没来freeoz了，再挖出自己这个沉了多时的帖子，真是颇多感慨。
圣诞节后应该又要找工作了，先跟自己说，加油！

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http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/compound-subjects.aspx

Compound Subjects
Today we are discussing subjects that contain the word “and.” You generally think “plural” if you see and “and,” but that’s not always the case.
Simple singular and plural subjects
Let’s start some sentences that have definitely singular or definitely plural subjects. The subject in “The clown is juggling” is obviously singular; one clown is doing something. “Two clowns and the ringmaster are juggling” contains and “and,” and since three people are involved, that subject is plural.
Singular compound subject with “And”
Now for some subjects that contain word “and” but are singular. This might sound wired at first, but you probably say such sentences every day. Take these two singular sentences: “Peanut butter and jelly is available in the cafeteria,” and “Meat and potatoes way my grandfather’s favorite meal.” In these mouth watering sentences, the tow items combine to form a singular subject - one dish – and this is the crux (crucial) of the matter. As Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage explains, “When the nouns form ‘a collective idea’ or ‘an oneness idea,’ the singular verb is appreciate”. Another explains is “spaghetti and meatballs”: “Spaghetti and meatballs goes well with garlic bread.”
A compound subject that describes a singular person
You may also find yourself referring one person in two ways in a sentence, and if you do so, you will use a singular verb. Consider the sentence in which the writer is saying her husband is also her best friend: “My husband and best friend like doing the dishes,” the two people are scrubbing. In this case, your husband is not your best friend.
Different and separate compound subjects
What if the ideas joined by “and” refer to more than one person or do not form one concept? Then, the sentence is plural. Noted grammarian Bryan Garner explains, “If two or more subjects are joined by and are different and separable, they are plural verb”. If you say, “Peanut butter and potatoes are my favorite foods,” you are listing two separate items you like. I’ve never heard of combined the dish “peanut butter and potatoes.” If it did exist, however, it would take a singular verb.
Singular or plural subject
Now, let’s analyze some contentious (arguable) sentences. The subjects in these may or may not be plural, depending upon your point of view. First up is this sentence with singular verb: “His humility and his decency reflects very bad American spirit.” Or should it be “reflect,” a plural verb? We need to assess whether the “humility and decency” are two variations on a theme and therefore one thing, or if these two personalities are “different and separable.” They seem separate ideas to me. A person could be decent but not humble. Others may disagree with this point of view. An anonymous commenter on the Sentence Sleuth blog, where this sentence is criticized as Criminal Sentence 513, argued, “The author intends them to be considered as a unit, as a representation of a singular quality, his “goodness.” I think you can get away with either a singular or plural sense – it’s discretionary (feel free).
There was even more discussion on the blog when it came to the following sentence (labeled Criminal Sentence 519): “There capture and successful prosecution is what we want”. Some commenter argued that the police had one goal – to put the criminals behind bars – so capture and prosecution represented one idea. They therefore felt the verb should be singular. Others thought these two actions were distinct and the verb should be plural.
With sentence with these two, we may have to agree to disagree; you can make a coherent argument for either point of view. If you’d like to weigh in with your opinion, you can find both these criminal sentences at sentencesleuth.blogspot.com
Rewrite to avoid compound subjects problems
If you come across this problem in your own writing, you may probably make someone unhappy no matter which kind of words you choose. Your best chance to pleasing everyone is to recast the sentence so you no longer have to wrestle the idea of singular or plural. One way to rewrite the sentence about humility and decency is “He embodies the very best of the American spirit with his humility and decency.” As for the second problematic sentence, you can very easily turn “Their capture and successful prosecution is what we want” into “We want to capture and successful prosecute them.” It’s less wordy, too.
Summary
Singular and plural is not as easy a concept as it might seem (notice how I said, “singular and plural is”; here we’re combining the two to refer to one grammatical concept). When you are deciding singular or plural, think about whether the items joined with “and” constitute one concept. A Sentence Sleuth blog reader point out that “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is a good example of a single idea that comes with an “and”. If you don’t know which verb to choose, just rewrite the sentence and avoid the problem.

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graceful article indeed

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算我一个，0416 938 000，TIM，

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因为想休息一段时间。

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谢谢您！我是想让孩子跟同龄的小孩一起。希望小学阶段能快乐读书。现在中国这边小学孩子的压力太大了，挺可怜的。选择移民澳洲就有这方面的考虑。所以还是让学校决定孩子上3年级还是4年级吧（希望还是能2TERM的语言学校就跟着同龄的孩子上4年级）。看看到那边孩子的适应情况好了。LS的各位，再次表示感谢！

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我选择上门自取

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现在也有的，每个月存1k，连续3个月以后送50刀

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坚持、生活会越来越好的，我们都支持你！一起努力加油

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嗯 谢谢支持！在普华做大概都是外审吧，在firm的咨询有专门帮第三方做内审相关工作的，但那儿毕竟是少数。

呵呵，你对内审还挺感兴趣的。呵呵 SAP只是ERP的其中的一个软件，ERP只是管理的一种方法，不是所有企业都有ERP的，当然有的会比较正规。
内审一般情况是审计公司的各个流程，以发现相关的控制缺陷以及风险，当然了，合规审计也是内审的一部分。
详细的咱们可以私下交流 哈哈

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有些词汇还是要看字幕。

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我骑自行车撞到了一个骑自行车的女孩
My bicycle hit with another bicycle rode by a girl when I was riding.

现在在任何地方赚钱都不容易，至少在国外比在国内赚的要多很多
Nowadays it is nowhere to earn up brightly with effortlessness, at lease earning at foreigns is much more than that of domestic in comparison.

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建议鬼魅把地点改到床上，然后收费提高一点也无妨

枕边风学起来比较快

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转让 雅思复习资料。。。已转让。。。

[ 本帖最后由 z37214728 于 17-7-2011 18:59 编辑 ]

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谁不想从名牌大学毕业？尤甚是在英国，美国前20名的大学毕业？镀完金后自身不仅会有一种优越感，笼罩着一层看不见的光环，而且回国后可以俯视芸芸众生，更容易受到欧美，世界500强大公司的青睐，象美国西北大学，凯洛格商学院，麻省理工，还有美国普渡大学，伊利诺斯大学等，不过不要忘记的是，读美国名牌大学的学费不会比澳洲留学便宜到哪里，除非你有能耐取得全额奖学金，而且宽进严出一向是国外大学的“游戏规则”，所以光有钱，还只是必要条件，非充分条件，你必须是出类拔萃者，否则就算进了这样的大学，还是有被淘汰的可能，当然我可能小看楼上了，说不定你在国内就是优秀生，去哪个大学，就可以顺利地读完哪个大学。

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楼上说的很对，centre tafe 旁的教堂，叫圣约翰教堂，有中文堂，每周日，中午十二点开始，里面有个古牧师，人非常好，你可以问他，他会告诉你有免费的英文课。希望能够帮到你

最后发表： 汪汪
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up up up

最后发表： 电视机
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引进日本鱼拓技术，在此基础上生产油画作品，投资10万左右。

想法还没完全成熟，有兴趣的进来聊一聊。