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.

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

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

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

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(57) / 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

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Charles Manson and the Tate murders; air marshals; to reach versus to arrive; to go off; to be out of (ones) league Words: troubled armed robbery following conspiracy death sentence cult air marshal undercover to disarm in pairs background in

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: American Presidents: George Washington; SeaWorld; power versus force; The Hurt Locker and Inglorious Basterds; How bad can it get? Words: colonel to resign to boycott unanimously to set precedent hatchet dentures sea ride roller coaster attra

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Topics: Ask an American: Commuting; start versus begin versus start off versus start on; a place to live versus a place to live in; might-have-been Words: congestion central public transportation to switch over to gradually rush hour peak in excess a

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Topics: The English-Only Movement; Famous Songs: The Yellow Rose of Texas; kinda; to drink the Kool-Aid Words: movement to date back to to assimilate cohesive blow symbolic folk song mulatto to seduce soldier to break (ones) heart to march kinda to d

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Topics: Famous Songs: God Bless America and Kate Smith; The American Girl Dolls; provided that versus as long as; g as in gansta; to suck Words: patriotic to set (something) aside prayer to bless to stand beside foam rendition seventh-inning stretch

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Topics: Famous Americans: Eleanor Roosevelt; Renaissance fairs; admit versus confess; mix versus blend; chick flick Words: paralyzed to stick by (ones) side First Lady role newspaper column press conference civil rights delegate instrumental period c

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Topics: Ask an American: sleep and weight gain; to slip through (one's) fingers; drink versus beverage; individually versus separately versus independently Words: pretty much anecdotally largely half-eaten buffet to shift to graze shift worker disrup

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Topics: Famous Americans: Janis Joplin; compulsory education and truancy laws; to bask; to brace; to palm off; to follow ones hunch(es) Words: blues to catch the attention of lead singer solo artist to struggle with to relapse compulsory to play hook

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Topics: The medical marijuana controversy; Famous Americans: Woody Allen; sky versus skies; meltdown and crack down; less is more/more is less; pronunciations of live Words: medical properties chemotherapy nausea appetite to prescribe dispensary cann

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Disneyland; government property seizures and auctions; state; on the prowl; pronouncing the vowel i and the vowel combinations ee and ea; time after time Words: theme park ride fantasy frontier to seize property tied to to make way for auction bid su

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

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

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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(175) / 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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