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

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: John Audubon and the Audubon Society; Famous Songs: On Top of Old Smokey; sign versus signal; figure out versus find out; to beat a dead horse Words: ornithologist to sketch naturalist to illustrate bird-banding taxidermy to become extinct to

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

A: Hey, John! I havent seen you in ages! Whats new? What have you been up to? B: Pete! Nice to see you Well, on top the norm, you know, wife and kids and work, Ive actually gotten into doing some trading. A: Trading? You, big guy? What are you tradin

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正地道美语

Jessica在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是听众问的:两面派。 jessica: 吴琼,我问你,两面派用美语怎么说? WQ: Ah? jessica, 你从哪儿学到这

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 美语怎么说

Topics:The John Peter Zenger Trial; tone versus hue versus tint versus shade; wherewithal; pronouncing saw, sew, sow, and sue Words: apprentice printer journal governor to rig anonymous libel trial to disbar jury amendment speech press tone hue tint

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

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

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Police in the US, The Simpsons, Its going down, qwerty, cant help but, stolen glance, witchcraft Words: to arrest police force officer state trooper squad car precincts animated satire Doh! Dont have a cow! Its going down qwerty cant help but

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Woodstock Music Festival, Affirmative Action, hands-on vs. hand-off, to struggle, how to ask for a taxi, May I vs. Can I, to carpool Words: gathering overdose national anthem shiny affirmative remedy to be admitted race gender ethnicity rever

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Today's topics: Filming in LA, Howard Stern, Worst Dressed Americans, Lolita, New Macs, Dove or Pigeon?, Color Bracelets, Do you get it?

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: The Graduate; Patty Hearst; embarrassed versus ashamed versus awkward; people versus persons; talk to the hand Words: to give (someone) a ride to seduce to have an affair to set (someone) up with magnate notorious to kidnap urban guerrilla fr

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

One thing I dread more than anything else is going clothes shopping with my wife. Its not that I dont like helping her buy new clothes. Its just that I have no fashion sense. My wife always asks me, What do you think of this one? and I always answer

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

美式足球超级杯那天,Larry要在家开party, 李华帮他做准备。李华今天要学两个常用语,munchies和spread. LL: I'm really excited about having a Super Bowl party, Li Hua. I just went to the store and bought lots of munchies,

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

Topics today: Charles Dickens, Night, Dr. Phil, Sundance Film Festival, Donald Trump, Very vs. Really, Pretty vs. Quite Words: Bleak House Fleet Street Press Follow-up Indie Studio To sue Real estate magnate Apprentice Biography

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus; New York Fashion Week; predict versus forecast; foretell versus remind versus recall; polite phrases used before meals Words: circus acrobat clown ringmaster clean reach collection whats in/out star

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Famous Americans Jane Addams; the Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe counting rhyme; to double down and trickle- down; especially versus specially; dewy Words: settlement house inspirational complex night school infant mortality pacifist fondly counting

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: American Movies The Manchurian Candidate; blue laws; expression versus term versus idiom; What name do you go by?; en masse Words: thriller prominent to brainwash assassin to incriminate sleeper agent nightmare to commission blue law Sabbath

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer; Famous songs: Little Bunny Foo Foo; science of versus knowledge of; good versus not bad Words: cookbook recipe a wide spectrum of cuisine hand motion to scoop up to bop goon poof moral play on words hare s

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

opics: American Presidents Warren G. Harding; wet versus muggy versus humid; intense versus intensive; such a Words: to make a bid fence sitter isolationism normalcy campaign telemarketer corruption graft veteran to hold true to disarmament affable w

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Tom: I wonder how much longer well have to put up with Dennis. He is the most incompetent boss Ive ever worked for. Katie: Hes not that bad, is he? I dont have much contact with him. Tom: Are you kidding? Hes always sleeping on the job. The other day

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on the intonation of tag questions. Tag questions are used in two very different ways, and the difference depends on whether you use a rising or falling pitch at the end of the tag question. On

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语