美语听力 English Cafe 162

Topics: Ask an American: cults; can versus could; will versus would; freedom versus liberty Words: cult imaginary satanic to spread to brainwash megalomaniacal deluded to impose connotation sect at a crossroads structure unpaid bill mainstream predom

美语听力 English Cafe 243

Topics: Famous TV Animals; Niagara Falls; closed caption versus subtitle; meanwhile versus meantime; using the colon (:) Words: to capture (one's) heart storyline courage stunt warden hydroelectric power honeymoon barrel mist chapel luxury hotel aphr

学个词Learn a Word 第369期 Gaffe

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ESL Podcast 505 – Teaching Children About Safety

Ms. Sanchez: Okay, kids. Im Ms. Sanchez, your substitute for this week. Im taking all of you on the field trip tomorrow. Listen up. There are some ground rules we need to go over . First, each of you will have a partner and you will hold hands while

美语听力 English Cafe 320

Topics: American Cities: Columbus, Ohio; Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII; limit versus limitation; for X person to undercut set targets; to sponge off (someone) Words: to thrive arch diversified to make it to to touch on allegedly mistress besott

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 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 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 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 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 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 310

Topics: Famous Americans: Clara Barton; The California Gold Rush; problem versus issue versus concern; cordless versus wireless; brothers and sisters Words: medical supplies front lines angel in charge of to advance victim to rush word spread to pan

美语听力 English Cafe 303

Topics: Jaws; The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Star, and the Medal of Honor; to go in versus to go into versus to get in versus to get into; overwhelming; off-kilter Words: jaw shark resort town breakthrough score suspense se

美语听力 English Cafe 305

Topics: Famous Songs: Ive Been Working on the Railroad; Burning Man; irony versus sarcasm versus satire; agreement versus contract; to fall for (someone) versus to fall for (something) Words: folk song to date back railroad to pass the time away whis

美语听力 English Cafe 312

Topics: Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters; The National Geographic Society; shade versus shadow; rarely versus seldom; every cloud has a silver lining Words: union management Teamsters mob to convict fraud bribery sentence to follow up on a lead to diffu

美语听力 English Cafe 294

Topics: American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln; to rise versus to raise versus to arise; rather than versus prefer; to tender (ones) resignation Words: humble origins log cabin itinerant teacher to fall into debt oratorical abolitionist debate to seced

美语听力 English Cafe 295

Topics: Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Bozo the Clown; kind of versus so-so versus more or less; firm versus company; to get + participle Words: odyssey concurrently plot extra-terrestrial cryogenically frozen to read lips to sneak to coincide with cl

美语听力 English Cafe 299

Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high Words: McCarthyism Red Scare to play on demagogue hearing to blacklist to change (

美语听力 English Cafe 300

Topics: American Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt; The Folk Tales of Uncle Remus; drug versus pill versus tablet; pronouncing ?; engagement versus commitment Words: sickly disillusioned spoils system to declare rough trust canal at odds with folk tale

美语听力 English Cafe 301

Topics: Ask an American: The value of church services; outbreak versus break out; to pull off versus to pull over versus to pull in; to act silly Words: invest church synagogue to overlook value pastor to commit suicide halo sacred demonstrable impac