用法学习: 1. Get out of town! Beat it!; Get out of here! Expression of incredulity. Go away, you bother me! Get out of town! You'd better get out of town, my friend. You are a pest. "Let me pick another word," he said smoothly. "Fascinating." / "Oh, get out of town. Fascinating, my butt.". solicious an amazingly beatiful sexy hot intelligent incredible person or perfect. She's so solicious. 2. Wisdom Tooth Removal: The operation is usually done under local anaesthesia 局部麻醉( anaesthesia US = anesthesia [ˌænisˈθi:ziə] ). This completely blocks pain from your gums and you will stay awake during the procedure. If you go to a hospital and your wisdom teeth are particularly challenging to remove, you may be given general anaesthesia全身麻醉. The emergence of resistance of bacteria to antibacterial drugs细菌对抗生素药类的抗药性 is a common phenomenon. Emergence of resistance often reflects evolutionary processes that take place during antibacterial drug therapy. 3. midget侏儒的称呼(vertically challenged, little people. ): They prefer to be called "little people." Frankly this surprises me, because I would consider it demeaning. I think the term insinuates that you are less than a person, that you are less important than a full-sized person. "Little" carries connotations of smallness, belitting, unimportant. But I suppose the addition of "people" to the term is positive, because it reinforces that they are people/human who deserve respect, not freaks to be stuck in sideshows and laughed at. Still, I'm surprised "little people" is the preferred term. I don't know what was wrong with "midget," I thought it was pretty neutral. Definitely never use "dwarf". Well, technically the disease is called dwarfism(['dwɔ:ˌfizəm]), so it would be dwarf. But personally, if I had it, I'd rather be called short, than a dwarf. Midget once had a distinct meaning as a small person with normal proportions as opposed to a dwarf meaning a small person with a disproportionate bodily configuration. However, the word is now considered offensive. The condition is currently called dwarfism. Person with dwarfism or short-statured adult as well as little people and people of short stature seem acceptable in usage. Erm, before anyone else starts to wind up, I honestly don't give a flying freddie flintoff in a floating vessel what the politically correct term is, this is just a bit of a quick laugh so please resist the temptation to 抵制诱惑, 抗拒诱惑 edge toward the lonely abyss ( abyss [ə'bis] I. 深渊 a very deep or unfathomable gorge or chasm. a bottomless abyss无底的深渊. II. anything that appears to be endless or immeasurably deep, such as time, despair, or shame. He is plunging into an abyss of despair.绝望的深渊. Anyone who betrays his motherland shall inevitably fall into the abyss of eternal sin and shame罪恶的深渊. III. (figurative) a wide or profound difference between people; a gulf: the abyss between the two nations. ) of self-righteousness. My dad told me today it was little people, but that still sounds quite diminutive. I heard once that vertically challenged had been put forward, whether in earnest or jest I know not. I thought interestingly sized might work but it's too vague and could mean obese as well. I ask because I had a momentary flash of a little person yesterday and it was one of those surreal public moments that leaves you jaw-jarred ( jar against someone or something 撞到, 碰到 to bump against someone or something. The guest jarred against the wall, knocking a picture askew. Someone jarred against Fran, almost knocking her over. jar on someone or something to bother someone or some-one's nerves. (Similar to jangle on something.). To be disturbing or irritating; grate: The incessant talking jarred on my nerves. Her voice really jars on me. My brash manner jars on her, I guess. jar v. I. To bump or cause to move or shake from impact. To knock or strike sharply. He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose. II. To startle or unsettle; shock. to shock or surprise. I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since. The punch cut my lip, which is nicely swollen, and jarred my jaw. I can't bite down without pain. III. (form, style, appearance etc. of people and things) To look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent. IV. To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly. To be disturbing or irritating; grate. The notes jarred on my ears. The incessant talking jarred on my nerves. V. To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute. ) and gobsmacked in a WTF kind of way. 4. Dwarf tossing is a bar attraction in which dwarfs wearing special padded clothing or Velcro costumes are thrown onto mattresses or at Velcro-coated walls. Participants compete to throw the dwarf the farthest. A related activity was dwarf bowling where the little person was placed on a skateboard and used as a bowling ball. Robert and Angela Van Etten, Florida members of the Little People of America, convinced the state's legislators in 1989 that dwarf tossing be made illegal. A measure banning dwarf tossing was passed with a wide margin. New York later followed suit. In October 2011, Ritch Workman introduced legislation that would overturn the ban on dwarf tossing, claiming such a ban to be an "unnecessary burden on the freedom and liberties of people" and "an example of Big Brother government". Although not a personal advocate of the activity, Workman stated "if a little person wants to make a fool out of themselves for money, they should have the same right to do so as any average sized person". 5. hiss To make a hiss. To express (a negative view or reaction) by uttering a hiss: The audience hissed its displeasure. The audience booed and hissed. The teakettle hissed on the stove. hiss/boo someone off (of the stage) 嘘下台, 哄下台 Fig. [for the audience] to hiss and drive a performer off the stage. The boys in the front row tried to hiss her off the stage. The audience, angry with the quality of the singers, tried to hiss them all off. hiss something out Fig. to say something with a hissing voice, usually in anger or disgust. The disgusted manager hissed his appraisal out. He hissed out his criticism. hiss at someone or something I. [for a reptile] to make a hissing sound as a warning. The snake hissed at me. Otherwise I wouldn't have known it was there. The lizard hissed at the snake. II. [for someone] to make a hissing sound at someone to show disapproval. The audience hissed at the performer, who was not all that bad. They hissed at all three acts. 6. bible reading: Jeremiah [,dʒerə'maiə] 一位先知 29:4-14. exile ['ɛksail] send into exile. prophet ['profit]澳洲读作['profEt] a prophet of doom someone who always expects bad things to happen. My father is convinced that this venture will fail, but then he's always been a prophet of doom. Jerusalem [dʒəˈru:sələm]. babylon ['bæbəlon] 字典标注的读音不对. prayer [preə(r)] 祷文, diviner I. a person who divines; soothsayer; prophet. II. a person skilled in using a divining rod. divine [di'vain] adj I. godlike. II. Informal splendid; perfect. III. a. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto. b. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball. v. I. to perceive or understand (something) by intuition or insight. To foretell through or as if through the art of divination. II. to conjecture (something); guess. III. to discern (a hidden or future reality) as though by supernatural power. concerto [kən'tʃɛətəu] 协奏曲: A composition for an orchestra and one or more solo instruments, typically in three movements. Liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions. The word, sometimes rendered by its English translation "service", may refer to an elaborate formal ritual such as the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy and Catholic Mass, or a daily activity such as the Muslim salat and Jewish services. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy is a communal response to the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, supplication, or repentance. Ritualization may be associated with life events such as birth, coming of age, marriage and death. It thus forms the basis for establishing a relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other participants in the liturgy. Methods of dress, preparation of food, application of cosmetics or other hygienic practices are all considered liturgical activities. 7. Lara Bingle opens up about split with Michael Clarke: Lara Bingle has shed light on the demise on her relationship with Aussie cricketer Michael Clarke, claiming that ending her engagement with him was the best thing she ever did. Bingle, who was highly criticised during her relationship with Clarke and also after she returned his engagement ring, said that the public negativity was not fair on her and she has learnt that it is best to keep quiet and let it ride its course even though it affects her emotionally. She asserted声称 that she never saw herself walking down an aisle because she was 19 when she got engaged. She added that she and Clarke are still friends, but he needs to loosen up a little bit. 8. Ossobuco ([,ɔs:Eu'bu:kEu]) is a Milanese specialty of cross-cut veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine and broth. It is often garnished ( 装饰菜, 装饰. ) with gremolata and traditionally served with risotto alla milanese. There are two types of ossobuco: a modern version that has tomatoes and the original version which does not. The older version, ossobuco in bianco, is flavored with cinnamon, bay leaf and gremolata. The modern and more popular recipe includes tomatoes, carrots, celery and onions. Gremolata is optional. 9. Stroker (also called Stroker Ace) is a computer game for the Commodore 64, created by Magic Carpet Software in 1983. Your mission in Stroker is to reach the ultimate orgasm. The game "play" went into different phases, the first one by reaching an erection by moving your hand up and down at a defined rhythm. Later on you start rubbing your penis using the joystick up and down. Much like in real life, things like premature ejaculation may happen and you would have to slow down or pause your rhythm to avoid the inevitable. On-screen you are presented with a hand holding a penis. To start off, you must achieve an erection, this is done by moving your hand up and down at a medium pace. You'll know when you are getting close because the penis will flash all different colors, red means he is just about to let off, so you'll need to hold back for a second or two. You can also tell when to hold off by looking at the guy's face in the top left-hand corner. You score is judged on how good your orgasm was. There are six "ratings", these are: Rotten, Bad, So So, Fair, Good and Great. Obviously, the longer you manage to go for, the better your score will get. 10. Why processed meat is on the nose(on the nose I. (idiomatic) Exact; precise; appropriate. His estimate that they would consume 23 boxes was on the nose. II. (idiomatic) Unimaginative; over-literal; lacking nuance. Wearing that floral dress to a garden party was a little on the nose, wouldn't you say? III. (slang, Australia) Smelly, malodorous; often used figuratively. That bucket of raw prawns you left in the sun is a bit on the nose. )? We put ham in our sandwiches and chorizo in pasta. There's peperoni on the Friday night pizza, sausages at Saturday morning soccer and bacon with Sunday's big breakfast. These ingredients all come under the heading of ( heading I. 标题. the title at the top of a page or piece of writing. Mention your sources at the end, under the heading 'Bibliography'. II. 类别, 归类. 分类 a word or phrase that gives a general description of a type of person or thing. Those responsibilities come under the heading of 'general duties'. There, under the heading of wholesalers, he found it. ) processed meat, a food that's looking a bit on the nose. In March we heard that a large study of 448,568 people had linked a high consumption of processed meat to early deaths from heart disease and cancer, while in February a review of 26 earlier studies into red and processed meat and bowel cancer confirmed that a high intake of these foods increased the risk of the disease. Although previous studies have also pointed the finger at processed meat, there's still no research nailing this food as an outright cause of cancer or anything else. "Although there are also associations between high intakes of red meat and bowel cancer, with lean red meat you can argue that it's a good source of iron, zinc, protein and B vitamins – but processed meat isn't a carrier of good nutrition," she says. So what is it about processed meat that could be a problem? Or is it less about the meat itself and more that diets big on bacon and sausage are a marker for less healthy diets( a marker for: 标志, 标记, 迹象. A marker for the end of adolescence. A marker for breast cancer. ) generally? Meat is mainly composed of water and protein, and is usually eaten together with other food. It is edible raw, but is normally eaten after it has been cooked and seasoned or processed in a variety of ways (e.g., smoking). Unprocessed meat will spoil within hours or days. Spoilage is caused by the practically unavoidable infection and subsequent decomposition of meat by bacteria and fungi, which are borne by the animal itself, by the people handling the meat, and by their implements. You might want to toss that package of sliced turkey sitting in your fridge right now: New research shows a link between processed meat consumption and premature death. So, what is "processed meat" exactly? "Typically, it means anything more manipulated than cut or ground," says dietician Lisa Cashman, RD. "This includes most lunchmeats found in deli counters, anything with a casing or in sausage form, and, of course, anything smoked or cured ( I. (transitive) relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition: He was cured of the disease. Figurative centuries of science have not cured us of our superstitions. II. eliminate (a disease, condition, or injury) with medical treatment: This technology could be used to cure diabetes. III. solve (a problem): Stopping foreign investment is no way to cure the fundamental problem. IV. preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by various methods such as salting, drying, or smoking: Some farmers cured their own bacon. home-cured ham. ) like bacon.". Don't panic—not all of your sandwich filling choices are off the table. Cashman recommends these alternatives for lunchmeat addicts: According to the study, poultry like chicken and duck won't up your odds of cancer or cardiovascular disease. Slice white-meat chicken for your sandwich instead of buying it pre-packaged (those meats may still have added chemicals). If you can't live without a grab-and-go option, Cashman recommends Applegate Farms, which offers hormone- and nitrate-free products.
华为问题在澳洲: The Abbott government could relax the ban on equipment from Huawei being used on the national broadband network even if security concerns over the Chinese telecommunications company are not fully allayed(allay [əˈlei] vb I. 减轻, 消除, 减弱. to relieve (pain, grief, etc.) or be relieved. To reduce the intensity of; relieve: allay back pains. II. (tr) to reduce (fear, anger, etc.). To calm or pacify; set to rest: allayed the fears of the worried citizens.). In an exclusive interview, Communications Mininster Malcolm Turnbull detailed grounds for the review and explained why there may be scope ( scope I. extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope. II. opportunity or freedom for movement or activity: to give one's fancy full scope. III. extent in space; a tract or area. IV. length: a scope of cable. scope (on) someone Sl. to evaluate a member of the opposite sex visually. He scoped every girl who came in the door. He wouldn't like it if somebody scoped on him. Or would he? scope someone or something out Sl. to look someone or something over; to check someone or something out. Hey, scope the new car out! Dave was scoping out all the girls.) to lift the NBN ban on Huawei. He said the question was not just whether the company may be a security threat because of alleged links with the Chinese government, but if the equipment the company provided could be used for espionage. "Even if you accept the premise that Huawei would be an accessory[əkˈsɛsərɪ] ( I. a supplementary part or object, as of a car, appliance, etc. II. (often plural) a small accompanying item of dress, esp of women's dress. III. (Law) a person who incites someone to commit a crime or assists the perpetrator of a crime, either before or during its commission ) to espionage – I'm not saying they will be, I'm just saying that's the premise – if you accept that, you then have to ask yourself, does the equipment that they would propose to sell have that capacity?" Mr Turnbull said, in the interview to be published in BRW on Thursday. Huawei, one of the world's largest telecommunications equipment makers, was gearing up to fight for lucrative contracts to roll out NBN technologies, after Mr Turnbull's August announcement the ban would be reviewed. Huawei, based in Shenzhen, was banned from NBN involvement under the former Labor government due to security concerns. Huawei strenuously denied claims it spied for the Chinese government or was a security threat. "The critical issue is, you've got to form a judgment about做出判断, 形成判断 Huawei, but then you've also got to form a judgment about the equipment that they are selling. There's both an overall assessment at a corporate level, and a technical assessment. I'm saying that we will review the matter in light of evidence [the government gets] in due course."
政府房屋福利惠了谁: More home subsidies( [ˈsʌbsədi ]) go to rich than renters: High-income earners are the overwhelming beneficiaries 受益者, 受惠者 of government support for housing, a report has found, turning on its head ( stand/turn something on its head 颠覆了看法 I. to use something in a completely wrong way. To turn upside-down; to invert. The crisis turned on their head the formulas that had seemed to work. The basic problem is that your report turns history on its head. II. to change something completely. to cause something to be the opposite of what it was before: The global economic crisis has managed to turn on their head stock exchanges worldwide. These new findings turn the accepted theories on their head. I really hope that doctors and nurses can pull together and turn the system on its head. ) the popular perception that low-income Australians get the greatest subsidies through rent assistance. 'We are not arguing that renters should get lots of government subsidies, but we were just really struck by the level of support for owners, given that there are so many reasons for these people to own their own houses anyway," Ms Kelly said. "It's hard to see why they need that level of subsidy." Home owners enjoy an exemption from capital gains tax(Capital gains tax (CGT) in the context of the Australian taxation system applies to the capital gain made on disposal of any asset, except for specific exemptions. The most significant exemption is the family home. Rollover provisions apply to some disposals, one of the most significant is transfers to beneficiaries on death, so that the CGT is not a quasi death duty. CGT operates by having net gains treated as taxable income in the tax year an asset is sold or otherwise disposed of. If an asset is held for at least 1 year then any gain is first discounted by 50% for individual taxpayers, or by 33.3% for superannuation funds. Net losses in a tax year may be carried forward, but not offset against income. Personal use assets and collectables 收藏品 are treated as separate categories and losses on those are quarantined so they can only be applied against gains in the same category, not other gains. This works to stop taxpayers subsidising hobbies from their investment earnings..), an exemption from the land tax faced by landlords, special treatment in applying the pension assets test and an exemption from tax for what is known as imputed rent( impute [im'pju:t] vb (tr) I. 错误归咎, 转嫁. 归罪于. To relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault or responsibility to: imputed the rocket failure to a faulty gasket; kindly imputed my clumsiness to inexperience. II. To assign as a characteristic; credit: the gracefulness so often imputed to cats. Imputed rent is the economic theory of imputation applied to real estate: that the value of a good is more a matter what the buyer is willing to pay than the cost the seller incurs to create it物品的价值取决于买家原意出多少钱买而不是卖家花了多少钱去作. In this case, market rents are used to estimate the value to the property owner. Thus, for example, if one could rent a similar property for less than the costs, one is losing money on the deal and vice versa. While the idea of imputed rent applies to any capital good, it is most commonly used in reference to home ownership. More formally, in owner-occupancy( An owner-occupier (also known as an owner-occupant or home owner) is a person who lives in and owns the same home. It is a type of housing tenure. The home of the owner-occupier may be, for example, a house, apartment, condominium, or a housing cooperative. The immovable property of the owner, which includes the home and the land upon which it sits, is known as the real estate. ), the landlord-tenant relationship is short-circuited. Consider a model: two people, A and B, each of whom owns property. If A lives in B's property, and B lives in A's, two financial transactions take place: each pays rent to the other. But if A and B are both owner-occupiers, no money changes hands even though the same economic relationships exists; there are still two owners and two occupiers, but the transactions between them no longer go through the market. The amount that would have changed hands had the owner and occupier been different persons is called the imputed rent.). "If a landlord is renting out a place, the landlord pays tax on that rental income," she said. "Homeowners enjoy the same sort of benefit. It's as if they pay themselves rent. But they are not taxed on it. The report found the scale of the support for owners pushed up house prices, making it harder for younger and poorer Australians to get into the market. The report found the skewing 倾斜, 侧重 of support to ownership, rather than renting, forced people to live further away from the centre of cities than they would like and made it hard for them to move because they face stamp duties. "If you are living out on the fringes, you often can easily access only a small minority of jobs rather than those in the centre. It means employers face a thinner labour market and workers are locked into jobs they might rather not have." Ms Kelly said Australian social norms and the state-based rules governing rent gave tenants little security. This further drove Australians into owning rather than renting, making them less mobile and responsive to the jobs market. The report recommended state governments replace stamp duty with a broad-based annual tax on all properties and re-examine the biggest tax breaks for landlords: negative gearing and discounted capital gains tax rates. Negative gearing is a form of financial leverage
where an investor borrows money to buy an asset, but the income
generated by that asset does not cover the interest on the loan. The
investor must fund the shortfall (赤字, 亏空 I. failure to meet a goal or a requirement. II. the amount of such a failure; deficiency. They are facing an expected $10 billion shortfall in revenue. ) until the asset is sold, at which point a profit is made if the capital gain资金收益 on the asset exceeds the accumulated loss. The tax treatment of interest expenses and future gain affects the investor's final return. Tax rules vary from country to country. Losses from negative-geared property investments are currently tax-deductible可减免税的 (deduct To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract. To derive by deduction; deduce.) in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which are all countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
以儆效尤的版权战争: The unlikely poster boy以儆效尤 for a culture war:
how a knock on the door changed film fan Richard's life forever:
Richard O'Dwyer, a 22-year-old undergraduate studying multimedia in
Sheffield, northern England, rose uncharacteristically不合常规的 early for a student on 29 November 2010, in preparation for a lecture later that morning. So the knock on the door of his small hall of residence room before 7am didn't wake him - but he was far from prepared for what would come next. On the other side of the door waited two officers from the City of London police, accompanied by two leather-jacketed men from the US immigration and customs executive (ICE). O'Dwyer's next two years were about to take a dramatic turn for the worse. The call would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle( a running battle (with somebody/something) an argument or fight that continues for a long time Flynn has fought a running battle with the tobacco company over its advertisements. ) between the Hollywood giants - struggling to keep their beleaguered被重重包围的, 身陷重围的 business model intact in the online era - and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules. What brought the ICE agents to O'Dwyer's door was his role in setting up a small website, TVShack.net, linking to sites where people could watch US TV and movies online. To prosecutors in New York, this made him a worthwhile target in the battle against copyright infringement. Although several recent extradition cases from the UK to the US have attracted controversy引起争议, in none does the gap between the alleged crime and the punishment sought by US prosecutors yawn ( yawn I. vi&vt. 打呵欠 To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom. yawned his disapproval of the silly venture. II. To open wide; gape. to be open wide as if threatening to engulf (someone or something). the mine shaft yawned below. The chasm yawned at our feet. chasm ['kæzəm] I. a break in continuity; gap. II. a wide difference in interests, feelings, etc. ) as wide.
In his first big interview, O'Dwyer tells how he became the unlikely
poster boy of the 21st century's culture war. "I was up early," he
recalls. "Then policemen turned up with two American men, wearing matching(像...一样的) Top Gun jackets. "I was half waking up, half confused.
When they started talking I couldn't hear what they were saying,
because I was too tired, but it was something about TVShack. So I was
like 'okay ... bugger'." O'Dwyer, a quiet, clean-shaven man
who looks younger than his 24 years, had set up the site in 2007, at
19, at the suggestion of a friend. It was a "human-powered search
engine" for people looking for places to watch films, TV and
documentaries online. "I told a few friends, and maybe they told a few
friends, and it sort of spiralled from there, and shot up fairly quickly, popularity-wise." "It's hard to maintain, with so many people [using it], I had to put adverts on to pay for the webhosting to get more servers to cope. "Lots of advertisers seemed to email the contact address on the website. I just basically picked one out of the hat( out of a hat a. as if by magic. b. at random. pull something out of a hat/ thin air
I. Lit. [for a magician] to make something, such as a live rabbit, seem
to appear by pulling it out of a top hat or out of the air. He pulled a rabbit out of a hat and then pulled a chicken out of thin air. II. Fig. to produce something seemingly out of nowhere. Where
am I going to get the money? I can't just pull it out of a hat! I don't
know where she found the book. She pulled it out of thin air, I guess. pull a rabbit out of a hat 变戏法似的. to do something surprising You didn't know how the story would end and then the author pulled a rabbit out of her hat, and it all made sense. Usage notes: sometimes used to describe a surprising solution to a problem: The governor pulled a rabbit out of a hat by putting together a budget without increasing taxes. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of pull a rabbit out of a hat, which is often done as a magic trick.)
and put them on the website. And obviously, when traffic went up, so
did the revenue. That's the way websites work." Over the three years it
ran, according to court documents, the site's growing audience generated
more than £140,000 ($220,000) in advertising revenue. O'Dwyer hasn't
denied the figure, but says a lot of it went on running the site. The rest didn't make for a lavish lifestyle: takeaways, pub rounds, electronics and cinema tickets saw it dwindle away一点点花光, he claims. "I frittered it away (fritter something away (on someone or something) to waste something, such as money, on someone or something, foolishly. Did you fritter good money away on that old car? You frittered away one hundred dollars on that piece of junk? fritter I. To reduce or squander little by little: frittered his inheritance away. II. To break, tear, or cut into bits; shred. ) - I haven't really got anything. I bought a computer, a few other things," he says. "[I] spent it like buying other people their things when we were at an event or something. Say at the cinema, I'd just buy everyone's cinema tickets." O'Dwyer - perhaps ironically given his circumstances - is a cinema buff.
With revenues from his site, he made four visits a week, and still
visits twice a week: "It's much better to see a film in the cinema."
American customs officials, after campaigning from industry bodies,
contended that linking to such items on other sites (as search engines
and others automatically do) would also be covered by such laws. This is
a contentious interpretation of the law,
even in the US, where linking has in some court cases been regarded as
protected speech under the first amendment. After a quick search of his
room, resulting in the seizure of
his computer equipment and paperwork relating to the site, O'Dwyer was
taken by the City of London police to his local police station for
interview. Hoping to get the process over quickly, he refused a lawyer.
"I didn't have a solicitor with me, because they told me it'd take two
hours to get one. I wanted to make it to my uni lecture, so I thought I'd just get it over with. Turns out the solicitor is next door to the police station." Unknown to所不知道的是 O'Dwyer,
his mother had been having a similar day: at 7am, five police officers
had turned up at her home and searched it for his possessions. She had
then been taken to her local police station and interviewed about her
son's activities. It was not so simple. When O'Dwyer reported to the
London police station in May 2011, he was told that the UK case against him would not be pursued - but there was a sting in the tail( a sting in the tail 虎头蛇尾 an unpleasant end to something that began pleasantly, especially a story or suggestion. At the start, it's humorous and light but like most of her short stories, there's a sting in the tail. ). "So we had a momentary sigh of relief,
says Ms O'Dwyer. "Then - I'm not kidding - the next sentence is 'Oh,
we've got an extradition warrant for you from America instead, so you
must go immediately to the court', and then the handcuffs were on, he
was taken away." His extradition hearings are based solely on proving he has a case to answer
in the US, that his actions, if proven, would be a crime in both
countries, and other technical points. Challenging the details of the
case could only be done in US courts. O'Dwyer finds himself baffled that
it is the US that is prosecuting him: "The evidence is here, I'm here,
I've never been to America since I was about 10. "There's literally no reason I can think of why it has to be heard in America ... at no point was the site ever in America. "I think they're trying to use my website as a sort of guinea pig to try to scare everyone else
making linking websites." In an attempt to give her son a relatively
normal life as his case progresses, and to keep him in the UK, Ms
O'Dwyer - a community nurse working with terminally ill children - has
become a campaigner against the extradition of her son and others to the
US. "I just went straight home after we got Richard the next day and
started looking at the internet to find out about extradition. That was
the first thing. I was just on it, full on, looking at copyright law, looking at extradition,
trying to find a good barrister," she says. "I don't let their
extradition warrant ruin my life. Otherwise you'd fail, just sit in your
room all day moaning. They'd be winning if I let it do that. [Julia
O'Dwyer] seems to be doing it all day, I think. Non-stop. She does a lot
of the actual work on things. And if she didn't ... I think I'd
probably be there by now. I'm very grateful for her doing that." So far,
their efforts have proved unsuccessful. As his case continues, O'Dwyer
is trying to keep his focus on his studies, and what he'd like to do
afterwards. "I like doing web development, and hope to keep making
various websites. It'd be good to join a big web company I think, just for the experience, I like Twitter, Facebook. I did apply to Google for a placement once,
too," he says. "But eventually I'd like to start my own project. New
start-up companies keep coming up all the time, don't they?" But until
his battle through the UK courts - and with the home affairs minister -
is over, any career plans O'Dwyer wants to make for the next decade come with a hefty degree of uncertainty.
