VOA Chinese, Aug 10, 2012
www.voachinese.com/content/wang- ... 120810/1483991.html
(章立凡:中央大事化小 薄熙来或可免被控)
(2) 英媒:谷开来案审判后留下的疑问. BBC Chinese, Aug 10, 2012.
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chin ... 810_press_gu2.shtml
Note:
(a) The report is based on
Tania Branigan, Neil Heywood's Death: The Unanswered Questions; In a trial lasting only eight hours Gu Kailai admitted poisoning the British businessman but doubts about the official account remain.
Guardian, Aug 10, 2012.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/201 ... nanswered-questions
(b) Editorial: China: a Closed and Shut Case; Gu Kailai's trial has hardly revealed any essential facts of the Neil Heywood murder case. Guardian, Aug 10, 2012.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen ... r-trial?INTCMP=SRCH
(c) The title "closed and shut case" is a word play on "open-and-shut case." Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, undated.
oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/open-and-shut-case
Despite hard work, I can not find its origin, but www.m-w.com says its Known First Use was 1841.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-and-shut |