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Today's topics: New Year's Resolutions, Earbuds for the iPod, U.S. Bestsellers from the New York Times, Oh, my goodness! and against all odds.

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Topics: American Presidents: Thomas Jefferson; celebrity roasts; to splash versus to spray versus to sprinkle; hearing; to be of Words: swivel chair mansion colonist delegate alien sedition elective epitaph celebrity roast sense of humor insult comic

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Topics: Famous Americans: Evel Knievel; Colonial Williamsburg; to devote versus to dedicate; the title Dr.; between now and then Words: daredevil stunt to pop a wheelie odd jobs to clear to go south exhibit authentic era living history firearm street

美语听力 English Cafe 10

Today's topics: Coretta Scott King, Super Bowls and Pizza, We will rock you by Queen, You bet versus I bet, Gonna, woulda, coulda, Speaking of which Words: Advocate Widow/ widower Delivery Seattle Seahawks Pittsburgh Steelers Plant Chicken wings Half

美语听力 English Cafe 01

Topics: Introductions, baby boomers Gen X, King Kong, and pronunciation are all discussed in this episode.

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Topics: Famous Songs Que Sera Sera; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown; demand versus request versus requirement; discrimination versus segregation; a great deal Words: to stab assassination to distract signature sweetheart chorus massacre to

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Topics: Ask an American Crowdsourcing; inn versus motel versus resort; to captivate versus allure; to leave versus to go away versus to go out Words: to finance storefront bank loan investor assets to give away to grow (a business) paradigm filmmaker

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Topics: Panama Canal; Famous Songs Fever; to squander versus to lavish versus to waste; self- conscious versus self- confident versus self-aware; as tough as they come Words: canal man-made explorer jungle proposal survey fraud locks feat pseudonym t

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Topics: American Authors J.D. Salinger; Comedy in Print Mad Magazine and The Onion; scanty versus inadequate versus deficient; inquiry versus investigation versus research; so-called Words: to be drafted stress first person slang phony recluse seclus

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Topics: American Authors William Faulkner; Soap Box Derbys; to deceive versus to cheat versus to lie; to appreciate; to go green Words: inspriation to drop out semester aristocracy fictional theme controversial manuscript derby fiberglass sponsor tra

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Topics: American Presidents Woodrow Wilson; junction versus intersection versus interchange; proprietary versus patent; to bluff (ones) way into a secure area Words: income tax salary graduated antitrust market to merge to campaign league occupation

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Topics: Movies A Streetcar Named Desire; Bryce Canyon National Park; lockout versus walkout versus strike; Sweet Sixteen, Elite Six, and Final Four; to dote on Words: performance to adapt leave of absence to intimidate controversial censor national p

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Topics: American Musicals Fiddler on the Roof; How to Sue Somebody (How Civil Lawsuits Work); reporter versus journalist versus correspondent; expense versus expenditure versus cost; bottom line; to run (something) by (someone) Words: musical traditi

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Topics: Famous Americans Typhoid Mary; The National Hot Rod Association; complex versus complicated versus intricate; needle hit the groove; to lampoon; loner; pastime; to clean versus to cleanse Words: bacteria contaminated quarantine healthy carrie

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Topics: American Presidents William Henry Harrison; fringe benefits versus benefits package versus compensation package; teacher versus professor Words: to enlist settlement to negotiate treaty to ally Whig to nominate campaign log cabin slogan inaug

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Topics: Famous Americans Charles Schultz and Peanuts; The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve; to be pleased to versus to be happy to versus its (ones) pleasure to; to sit versus to seat; willy-nilly Words: cartoon freelance folks memoir to

美语听力 English Café 441

Topics: Ask an American Saving the oldest photograph; law versus rule versus policy; to stem from versus to be derived from; bring it on; infomercial; hawking; exercise fad Words: studio to show (something) off luminous three-dimensional nanoparticle

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Topics: Movies Titanic; The Ford Motor Company and the Model T; holiday versus feast versus celebration; impunity versus retaliation versus notoriety; to think of versus to think about Words: maiden voyage iceberg to sink fictional flashback architec

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Topics: Ask an American La Brea Tar Pits; until versus till/til versus by; to restore versus to recover; CCU (coronary care unit) Words: fossil to preserve stuck asphalt flypaper to succumb to torn apart to wander predator scavenger climate precautio

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Topics: Famous Americans John Philip Sousa; Confidential Magazine and the Criminal Libel Suit of 1957; developer versus programmer versus coder; describing a person with a good character Words: composer to conduct march to dedicate official to be ins