美语听力 English Cafe 95

Topics: Ask an American: Getting into an MBA program to spell out something, about to break, breakdown, conscience versus conscious Words: any number of marketing accounting undergrad/undergraduate to be admitted GMAT TOEFL to be right out of to set

美语听力 English Cafe 100

Topics: Traveling in the U.S., gimmick versus trick, to call em like you see em, spite versus respite, in demand versus on demand Words: the open road spats KOA hitch GPS pop-up AAA bicentennial gimmick trick to call em like you see em in demand on d

美语听力 English Cafe 69

Topics: Studying abroad in college, Americans and gun control, come and eat vs. come to eat, in spite of vs. despite Words: abroad junior year to count humanitarian to have a long way to go firearms amendment to bear (arms) to conceal to carry fronti

美语听力 English Cafe 103

Topics: Ask an American: Raising children one of those, reply versus answer, customer versus purchaser Words: to be in competition stressed out to get (someone) into (something) to pause to build self-esteem competent capable its all about the (somet

美语听力 English Cafe 104

Topics: American cities: Nashville, Grand Ole Opry; school fund-raisers, to hold on to your hat, to be put inside, a blow-by-blow account Words: Hall of Fame to be inducted into dialect fund-raiser funds raffle to grow weary to do away with to get ri

美语听力 English Cafe 105

Topics: Why Americans dont use the metric system, how to dress in Los Angeles versus New York, yutz, to go back to square one, what to call your cousins son, Im done with you Words: signatory to establish commission competitive dress code to crack th

美语听力 English Cafe 109

Topics: Cities: Tucson, Arizona (Interview with Dr. Lucy Tse) Harpers Index, to get a kick out of (something), to commute, to not stand for (something), Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise Words: landmark border canyon

美语听力 English Cafe 111

Topics: Famous Americans: Yo Yo Ma; Popular books in the U.S., pronouncing contractions, to figure out versus it figures, there will be no versus there will not be, if you will Words: self-deprivation hip label sacrifice ethically to rubberneck to ta

2007年VOA标准英语-Pentagon Chief Says Al-Qaida Expanding in N. Af

By Al Pessin Pentagon 13 July 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the al-Qaida terrorist network is expanding in North Africa, through a loose network of groups that share its ideology. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. Robert Gate

VOA标准英语2008年-Thousands of California Gays Expected to Wed Af

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 June 2008 Thousands of same-sex weddings are expected in California after June 16, the day the California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriages takes effect. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Ang

美语听力 English Cafe 250

Topics: Comic-Con; Famous Americans: Houdini; I just versus I have just; suit versus match versus fit; levity Words: convention comic book animation autograph fan magician escape artist handcuffs to debunk supernatural medium sance to suit to match t

美语听力 English Cafe 388

Topics: Famous Americans - Sandra Day O'Connor; understanding American football; the meanings of to draw; out for lunch versus out to lunch; for crying out loud Words: attorney general appointed court of appeals justice swing vote abortion successor

美语听力 English Cafe 386

Topics: Ask an American Undocumented students and college tuition; stop thinking negatively; very; smoking hot Words: tough deserving to play by the rules in-state law-breaking fundamentally unfair incentive tuition to get a return on (ones) investme

美语听力 English Cafe 384

Topics: The Hatfields and the McCoys; serving in the military to obtain U.S. citizenship; consistent with, in agreement with, coincide with, and identical to; software versus application versus app; to run out of versus to be out of Words: feud presu

美语听力 English Cafe 382

Topics: Famous Songs - Chicken Fat; Hells Angels; other versus another; through; its a given versus it figures Words: surprise hit calisthenics orchestral accompaniment push-up flabby nuts to (something) angel helmet tattoo patch gang biker to let lo

美语听力 English Cafe 381

Topics: Ask an American - Participatory Science; to attend versus to take part in versus to participate in versus to join; standalone versus to stand alone; hair of the dog that bit me Words: limited taxa citizens science project sample to involve th

美语听力 English Cafe 373

Topics: The Chicago Seven; American Authors - Horatio Alger; murderer versus killer versus assassin; ...and all; so forth and so on Words: defendant convention radical rally to incite a riot verdict intent rags-to-riches American Dream entrepreneuria

美语听力 English Cafe 377

Topics: The Sam Sheppard Trial; Plymouth Rock; to counsel versus to consult; to hit (one/someone) head on; to scare the crap out of (one/someone); a bee in (ones/someones) bonnet Words: intruder to lose consciousness to come to jury to be convicted a

美语听力 English Cafe 366

Topics: Ask an American: Saving the space program; point versus period versus dot; using no with a verb; all the same Words: vehicle astronaut orbit to hitch a ride to imply to stoke innovation golden era space exploration driven by to shift outlook

美语听力 English Cafe 371

Topics: Ask an American - Asian Immigrants; to note versus to notice versus to notify; assessment versus appraisal; to be full of (oneself) Words: professionalized immigration brain drain working class folks pre-collegiate multiplicity national origi