美语听力 English Café 507

Topics: The Leo Franks Trial; on hand versus in hand versus at hand; discrete versus discretion Words: superintendent to strangle prejudice factory to get rid of to coach to flirt to prey on alibi to appeal to commute pardon on hand in hand at hand d

美语听力 English Café 508

Topics:American Musicals-Cabaret; The Guggenheim Museum; relation versus relationship; rerun versus syndication; belly of the beast Words: to premiere master of ceremonies cabaret boarding house to claim errand abstract art to exhibit distinctive dom

美语听力 English Café 510

Topics: American PresidentsBenjamin Harrison; to call the shots versus to wear the pants; inquiry versus enquiry; There's more than one way to skin a cat. Words: rank incentive to expand pension to make a deal domestic to restrict monopoly to dissolv

美语听力 English Café 511

Topics: American Movies-Toy Story; The United States Naval Academy; buddy versus chum versus pal; fee versus pay; Clean clams crammed in clean cans Words: animated perspective cowboy astronaut mission spaceship to escape commercial to be depressed fa

美语听力 English Café 512

Topics: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Radio City Music Hall and The Rockettes; Satan versus Devil versus demon versus evil; to know best; with regard to Words: immigrant rag fire escape to mourn sprinkler system manslaughter to acquit commiss

美语听力 English Café 469

Topics: American Presidents-Grover Cleveland; to understand versus to grab versus to grasp versus to get (it); the suffix-hood; pronouncing words with the first letter e Words: discontinuous to be drafted to nominate mayor to veto commerce tariff to

美语听力 English Café 472

Topics: Movies-Amadeus; The Adelsverein; neither and nor: earworm; badass Words: composer lunatic asylum flashback envious revenge requiem to take a toll mediocre to emigrate market settlement creditor neither nor earworm badass

美语听力 English Café 470

Topics: Famous Americans-James Fenimore Cooper; The Farmer's Almanac; in favor of versus in (one's) favor; feat of strength, raw human strength, and to be forced against table's edge; to multitask Words: frontier pioneer to be expelled from prank to

美语听力 English Café 468

Topics: The Jonestown Massacre; Square Dancing; perspective versus prospective versus prospect; scheme versus schema; heart condition Words: massacre to be affiliated with temple charismatic to owe (someone) (something) to be blackmailed commune to b

美语听力 English Café 467

Topics: Movies-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Famous Americans-Babe Didrikson Zaharias; to deliver versus to distribute versus to ship; describing the loss of hair on a man's head; to ward off Words: fairy tale animated folly vain fair cottage dwar

美语听力 English Café 466

Topics: Ask an American-Being a twin; to revoke versus to nullify versus to rescind; waste; bon voyage Words: star twins identity to be noticed to project to interfere with resilience to be (one's) own person co-dependence to dress alike alliterative

美语听力 English Cafe 11

Today's topics: Three Strikes, Groundhog Day, Lost and CSI, Regards and Cheers, Amazing versus Awesome, On the heels of... Words: Take away Woodchuck Shadow Marooned Plane crash Victim Fingerprint Toast

美语听力 English Cafe 09

Today's topics: Lunar New Year, British English, Quincenera, Schools in the US, Well, Good, and Bad, Effect versus Affect, Maybe versus Perhaps. Words: Sweet 16 Latino Dropout Grade School Tuition Kindergarten Diploma Tracking Electives

美语听力 English Café 497

Topics: American Presidents-James A. Garfield; to resign/draw/abandon match; gorgeous versus magnificent; nail in (someone's) coffin Words: to be raise canal to pursue session to nominate candidate slogan tow path administrative to appoint patronage

美语听力 English Café 498

Topics: American Movies/Musicals-Mary Poppins; Craigslist; oblivion and to overwhelm; to select versus to elect; wee hours Words: nanny nursery suffragette to interview chaos to adapt classified advertisement to incorporate to generate revenue to cra

美语听力 English Café 499

Topics: Americans Abroad-The Confederados in Brazil; Chaco Canyon National Historical Park; speaking in tongues, folks, porridge, and just right; to ingratiate (oneself) with Words: civil war economy to have a tie to heritage archeologist engineering

美语听力 English Café 500

Topics: Famous Americans-Elizabeth Blackwell; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; to delay versus to put off versus to procrastinate; during versus while; sheer Words: poverty to earn a living to be rejected to harass to contract blind to incorporate imp

美语听力 English Café 501

Topics: Famous Movies-Raiders of the Lost Ark; Hotel Del Coronado; to forfeit versus to nullify versus to revoke; nonetheless versus nevertheless; to live versus live Words: relic idol to collapse to turn on (someone) superhuman to capture swashbuckl

美语听力 English Café 502

Topics: The Massie Trial; concept versus content versus context; whereas versus while; [month]+[date] versus [date] of [month] Words: to flag down to rape evidence to frame verdict hung jury to confess to be outraged lynching temporarily insane to te

美语听力 English Café 486

Topics: Ask an American-Independent Bookstores; ever since versus ever after; varied versus various; ability versus skill Words: homogenized digitized anonymous to crave to interact with institution voracious reader independent bookstore mega tactile