美语听力 English Cafe 319

Topics: Famous Americans: T.S. Eliot; log and log in/log on; explanation versus interpretation; pronouncing consonant clusters Words: distinguished disillusionment New England to break from pedantic vulgar erudite to breed essay critic a product of (

美语听力 English Cafe 318

Topics: Famous Americans: Warren Buffet; The Chicken Soup book series; few versus little; only so many; to be due Words: share partnership sage to endorse philanthropy inspirational chicken soup soul to nourish compilation motivational speaker few li

美语听力 English Cafe 317

Topics: Movie: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Detroit and the Rust Belt; to knead versus to mash; the infinitive versus gerund form of a verb (to look for versus looking for); bona fide Words: to name a replacement naive to manipulate to propose a bil

美语听力 English Cafe 315

Topics: American Presidents: John F. Kennedy; Great Britain versus Britain versus England versus United Kingdom; who versus which versus that; hot shot Words: to become embroiled to ram war hero convalescence stillborn retrospect close inaugural addr

美语听力 English Cafe 314

Topics: Famous Songs: Kumbaya; Crater Lake National Park; free time versus spare time; at the end versus in the end; booking versus reservation Words: spiritual to pass down campfire calming effect to sway crater volcano lodge rim trail indigenous pi

美语听力 English Cafe 313

Topics: Salem Witch Trials; National Endowment for the Arts; in fact versus as a matter of fact; even versus even though; to look at Words: witch supernatural trial fit to afflict outcast to hang mass hysteria endowment grant subjective to abolish in

美语听力 English Cafe 330

Topics: American Authors: Toni Morrison; Homeboy/Homegirl Industries and Father Greg Boyle; screw versus bolt versus nut; to kidnap versus to abduct; to sharpen (ones) axe Words: African American experience to long social convention homeboy gang prie

美语听力 English Cafe 331

Topics: Ask an American: Online money management; dont worry versus dont bother; not only; to move/get past a feeling; pronouncing wool versus wall Words: to calculate to allocate to withdraw to accrue interest infographic personal finances to pay of

美语听力 English Cafe 332

Topics: Famous Americans: Michael Jordan; the Quakers; tag questions; the derivation of okay; to learn versus to study Words: draft fan slam dunk to leap MVP to be inducted to endorse to be traced back to to persecute to swear to generalize worship o

美语听力 English Cafe 342

Topics: Movie - Apocalypse Now; getting your child into a private school, K-12; relating to versus related to; down with (the king); to qualify Words: apocalypse to be set in renegade to command mission horror napalm triumphant ambitious transcript p

美语听力 English Cafe 341

Topics: Ask an American - Historic court case on gender equal rights; incident versus accident; to throw good money after bad; adding shm- before another word Words: just to have faith in to right the wrong trial court appeals court Supreme Court per

美语听力 English Cafe 340

Topics: Rodney King Trial and the 1992 Riots; Dick Tracy detective stories; third world; from versus out of; to pull (oneself) together versus to get a hold of (oneself) Words: to beat bystander excessive force baton outraged to acquit riot mob curfe

美语听力 English Cafe 339

Topics: American Presidents - Herbert Hoover; knock-knock jokes; awful versus terrible versus terrific; initials in nicknames; that ship has sailed Words: starvation Great Depression to backfire tariff relief effort to memorialize dam lighthearted kn

美语听力 English Cafe 338

Topics: Famous Americans - Ansel Adams; Ben Jerry's; to find out versus to figure out versus to seek; too constructions; dummy versus idiot Words: from that point on to develop portfolio inspiring gift shop yummy correspondence course ice cream parlo

美语听力 English Cafe 336

Topics: Ask an American - Self-publishing; intrinsic versus native versus innate versus congenital; recently versus currently; soccer Words: route agent to reject courtesy outrageous to fulfill tiresome fraught with distribution editorial support cre

美语听力 English Cafe 335

Topics: Spy trials of the 40s/50s - Alger Hiss Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Johnny Appleseed; feeling versus emotion; expression versus term; drop dead Words: spy espionage trial to denounce perjury statute of limitations execution cause clbre orchard

美语听力 English Cafe 334

Topics: Grand Teton National Park; Famous Songs: She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain; congratulations versus thanks versus kudos; literally; to take the time Words: range intact stunning glacier lodge snowshoeing to come around spiritual second comi

美语听力 English Cafe 333

Topics: Movie - Star Wars; the Security and Exchange Commission; shame versus pity; reading numbers aloud; to be left cold Words: trilogy prequel outer space extraterrestrial droid to harness box office security commission broker scope disclosure sha

美语听力 English Cafe 337

Topics: Famous Authors - Stan and Jan Berenstain and the Berenstain Bears; getting married; to stand for versus to refer to (as); the past simple and the present perfect tenses; especially Words: illustrator anthropomorphic bumbling to backfire franc

美语听力 English Cafe 329

Topics: American Presidents: Jimmy Carter; The Lost Ship of the Desert Legend; phrases used to ask for status updates; to start off for; likely versus probable Words: peanut board name recognition stagflation to be taken hostage inept accord diplomat