揭发、举报 tip-off

为了缓解春运"一票难求"的紧张状况，铁道部出台了很多措施打击贩票的"黄牛党"，已经端掉了很多贩票或出售假票的黑窝点。日前，广铁公安局拿出50万元，重点奖励举报倒票线索、协助查破重大倒票案件的旅客群众。

The government crackdown on railway ticket scalpers was intensified yesterday with Guangdong railway police offering rewards of up to 500,000 yuan ($73,200) for tip-offs on scalpers.

政府已加大了对火车票"黄牛党"的打击力度，广铁公安局昨日宣布将拿出50万元人民币（合73200美元）奖励举报黄牛党的人。

在上面的报道中，tip-off就是指"揭发、举报"，例如：Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested the drug smugglers.（警方根据密报逮捕了毒品走私者）。Tip在这里做名词，表示"秘密消息"。

此外，其动词形式tip off表示"通风、告密"等意思，比如：Did Nancy want him to tip off the police confidentially?（南希是否希望他秘密地向警方通个风）？而告密者，透露消息的人则被称为informant，比如：I feel that what the informant says may well be true.（我认为那个告密者说的可能是真的）。

为了接收这些"举报"，相关部门常会open a tip-off hotline（开通举报热线），提供tip-off telephone（举报电话）的号码，但tip-off也有可能只是暗示一些情况，不一定十分糟糕，比如：The judge called for a pitcher of water, a tip -off that the session would be long.（法官要了一大杯水，这表明审判要持续很长一段时间）。在篮球比赛时，tip-off专指开球时的跳球，而the tip-off of a cigar则是指"香烟的末端"。

What's your trouble?
你哪儿不舒服？

trouble作为动词的两个主要含义：
1、使不便；烦扰：May I trouble you to close the window? 能麻烦您关下窗吗?
2、费苦心：They trouble over every detail. 他们为每个细节煞费苦心。

In the climax of the Fiesta de Santa Fe (held this year on the night of September 10), a solemn procession carries candles to the Cross of the Martyrs. The cross memorializes the Spanish victims of the 1680 revolt, when the region's Pueblo Indians rose up in violent protest against their mistreatment and burned the city.

They are directly from America

Not long after an old Chinese woman came back to China from her visit to her daughter in the States, she went to a city bank to deposit the US dollars her daughter gave her. At the bank counter, the clerk checked each note carefully to see if the money was real. It made the old lady out of patience. At last she could not hold any more, uttering. "Trust me, Sir, and trust the money. They are real US dollars. They are directly from America."

它们是直接从美国带来的

一位中国老太太去美国看望女儿回来不久，到一家市银行存女儿给她的美元。在银行柜台，银行职员认真检查了每一张钞票，看是否有假。 这种做法让老妇人很不耐烦，最后她实在忍不住说："相信我，先生，也请你相信这些钞票。这些都是真正的美元，它们都是直接从美国带来的。"