Jasmine:I'm so tired! I don't know how I'm going to make it through this lecture. Sean: the professor is a bit boring today. You need something to perk yourself up. How about a coffee? J: I don't really like coffee, to be honest. It's too bitter for

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 生活英语情景口语

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: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Famous Songs: Oh! Susanna; whichever versus whatever; tar-and-feather; mutually exclusive Words: smoke old-growth forest salamander settler log cabin banjo true love still nonsensical dialect from memo

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Drowning is a big problem around the world and is the second most common cause of accidental death. New Zealand also has a very high rate of drowning with only road accidents and falls causing more deaths by accident. From 2003-2007 an average of 114

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Scientists develop herbicide-resistant seeds that can kill the parasitic plant. Transcript of radio broadcast: 23 June 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A sorghum field infested with striga, or witchweed Farmers in Africa call

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(六)月

Creating a Safe Haven for Chadians Fleeing Libya Humanitarian agencies are setting up a way station in a small, remote mountain town in Chad. It's the entry point for thousands of Chadian migrants fleeing the conflict in Libya. All the new arrivals n

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(五月)

A: What can I get for you today? B: Could I get a hamburger, please? A: Would you like cheese on that? B: No, thank you. A: Would you like a drink? B: Let me have a soda. A: What kind of soda would you like? B: May I have a Sprite, please? A: Sure, n

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A: What would you like to order? B: I would like to have a hamburger. A: Did you want it with cheese? B: I don't want cheese on it. A: Did you want anything to drink today? B: I think I'm going to get a soda today. A: What kind of soda can I get you?

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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

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

Topics: Houston, who Americans trust, to get off ones soapbox, layover vs. transfer, blond vs. blonde Words: gulf oil wells metropolitan area port cargo unload mission dome occupation clergy to get off ones soapbox to hog the floor layover transfer b

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Topics: Day of the Dead, Desperate Housewives, work vs. job. vs. occupation, older vs. elder Words: saint grave shrine skull desperate housewife suburbs soap opera melodramatic Emmy Award work job occupation older elder

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Topics: Yelp; Book Review: The Road; advocate versus lawyer versus attorney; any; salmon and count/mass nouns Words: yelp social networking profile review recourse escapism spare apocalypse deserted dog-eat-dog to grip quotation mark advocate lawyer

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

By Ricci Shryock Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 29 April 2008 New research shows a community-controlled approach to fighting illness has doubled the malaria coverage for children in some African villages during the past three years. Ricci Shryock has more

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

In his monthly news conference, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown outlined what he hopes can be achieved in the two one-day international gatherings on Afghanistan and Yemen that will be held this week in London. Mr. Brown says the London Afghan co

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

Topics: Social networking; government-run lotteries; the use of on with the days of the week; to travel in/by; individual versus personal Words: social networking application post to keep in touch privacy discreet lottery scratcher / scratch-it ticke

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(211) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: American Cities: Milwaukee; Neighborhood Watch/Citizens Arrest; to look versus to look like; not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin; pretty + (adjective) Words: brewery on the shores of waterway per-capita violent crime suspicious to interven

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Topics: Classic game shows; the sister cities program; beyond a reasonable doubt; infinite versus permanent versus eternal; forward versus forwards Words: game show classic on the air to make a comeback contestant showcase deal newlywed to make whoop

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Topics: Types of prisons and the parole system; American cities: Austin; using prepositions with the days of the week; for the world to owe (one) something; late/early morning, afternoon, and evening Words: prison to pose a threat solitary confinemen

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Ask an American: The Cherokee Language; regard versus consider; remember versus memorize; knock on wood Words: tense tone inflection bits and pieces from the heart to provide for trustworthy foster as if to regard to consider to remember to m

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Topics: Ask an American: The Princess and the Frog; pronouncing address; to cut the bull/ bullsh*t; outspoken versus vocal Words: fairy tale extension of (ones) disbelief dreamland hand-drawn down here to break (someones) heart merger to bring back t

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