美语听力 English Café 432

Topics: Presidential Libraries; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; people versus peoples; officer versus official; to continue versus to carry on Words: term to donate to preserve estate endowment artifact legend ghost to descend prank saddle victim people

美语听力 English Café 431

Topics: Ask an American Firefighter inmates; catastrophe versus calamity versus disaster; cant hardly wait versus can hardly wait; so that Words: adrenaline rush to fight fires rocky terrain sandy terrain anywhere between gear flood search-and-rescue

美语听力 English Café 430

Topics: American Musicals My Fair Lady; Chautauquas; to reply versus to comply versus to meet; mild versus tender; to have the munchies Words: musical myth phonetics aristocrat dubbed to be accustomed to lecture correspondence course imitator talent

美语听力 English Café 429

Topics: Cajun Culture; The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show; to preserve versus to reserve; yada, yada, yada versus blah, blah, blah; Dear Sir/Madam versus To Whom it May Concern Words: Cajun descent peace treaty to pledge allegiance isolated to pres

美语听力 English Café 428

Topics: Famous Americans - Jim Thorpe; United Code of Military Justice Common Crimes; pre-paid cell phones; abbreviation versus acronym; a matter of form Words: intramural team hurdle pentathlon decathlon amateur posthumously absent without leave des

美语听力 English Café 426

Topics: Ask an American - Art conservation; bravery versus gallantry; to escape versus to abscond; how to communicate time Words: conservator mural legacy artist earthquake damage subsequent to manifest intention competently to recreate interpretatio

美语听力 English Café 425

Topics: American Musicals - Hello, Dolly!; The National Rifle Association; to take a stab at (something) versus to take a chance; if you will; to walk a dog Words: musical matchmaker composer lyricist librettist debut refrain rifle marksmanship chart

美语听力 English Café 424

Famous Americans Geronimo; The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race; amiable versus amicable; biases Words: warrior Apache to mourn raid settler reservation paratrooper dog sled to survey musher checkpoint sponsorship amiable amicable bias

美语听力 English Café 423

Words: serial killer to profile someone psychiatrist criminally insane traumatic engineering survey canal aqueduct lock marvel recession depression if you will all-in-one tax adviser/or

美语听力 English Café 427

Topics: Famous Authors - E.B. White; Name change after marriage; appliance versus utensil; to jibe (with) versus to be at odds with; Im here versus Im in here Words: contributing prose poetry essay concise maiden name convention feminist movement pol

美语听力 English Café 433

Topics: Famous Americans Carrie Nation; The Beach Boys; to pump up versus to balloon versus to beef up; historic versus historical; vigilance Words: temperance alcoholic chapter Prohibition raid hatchet to release surfing hippie hit lyrics hip recess

美语听力 English Café 434

Topics: Famous Songs I Left My Heart in San Francisco; Niagara Falls; assessment versus evaluation versus appraisal; sympathy versus empathy; to take (ones) time and to take a load off Words: homesick to pitch bay steep cable fog waterfall factory to

美语听力 English Cafe 253

Topics: Chinatown; famous songs: Home on the Range; that way versus in that way versus in such a way; neither here nor there; suffer versus suffer from Words: to be inspired by (something) conspiracy corruption to reveal to flee warrant for (someones

美语听力 English Cafe 251

Topics: Ask an American: Obsolete; regarding versus concerning versus as for; can't be bothered; How you doing? Words: block soundtrack to tote ghetto blaster forefinger knob cultural reference next door otherwise to Tweet terse to water down regardi

美语听力 English Cafe 252

Topics: Famous Authors: Raymond Chandler; the Pony Express; to be involved in versus to be involved with; to make sense; hard on its heels Words: genre free time hobby to make ends meet screenwriter unsentimental cynical relay wiry orphan can-do trad

美语听力 English Cafe 254

Topics: Famous Americans: Scott Joplin; American Cities: Memphis; picture versus image versus photo; a versus an Words: composer ragtime talent to be well-received largely posthumous lumber mule these days cargo to be associated with barbecue picture

美语听力 English Cafe 255

Topics: Famous Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder; college secret societies; no one versus nobody versus anybody; Do you feel as though...?; rent versus lease Words: pioneer homesteader deed to draw on (ones) experiences prairie drought rerun skull to tap

美语听力 English Cafe 256

Topics: Ask an American: Chocolate; dispute versus disagreement versus conflict; using times in comparing amounts; use of infinitive to phrases as adjective, adverb, or noun Words: comfort food to melt in (ones) mouth sensation hot off the presses to

美语听力 English Cafe 257

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

美语听力 English Cafe 12

Today's topics: Stealing art, Religions in the US, Walk the Line, I've had versus I had had, Jump across the pond, She's a complete knockout! Words: Archeological dig Artifact Curator To be on trail Getty Museum (Los Angeles) Metropolitan Museum of A