美语听力 English Café 525

Topics: Famous Americans-W.C. Fields; The Video Game Pong; trim, quarter- round, and carpenter; to condemn and conscious; transliteration Words: stage name solo to boast signature demanding humor contract to mutter hand controller patent to be based

美语听力 English Café 523

Topics: American Movies-Frankenstein; Famous Americans-James Brown; to boost versus to foster versus to encourage; funky; right as rain Words: horrifying to be obsessed experiment laboratory to be capable of nightmare shocking entertainer insufficien

美语听力 English Café 524

Topics: American Presidents-Chester A. Arthur; intimate versus personal versus private; particular versus specific versus in particular; I beg your pardon Words: legal right to discriminate against to sue reputation to retire spoils to import civil s

美语听力 English Café 526

Topics: Ask an American-Journalism and Technology; liberal arts; second to (the) last; I am hearing you Words: journalist to vet fluid multimedia marketing distribution arm panorama tornado to rip (something) out to stitch to raise new question to ma

美语听力 English Café 435

Topics: American President James Madison; function versus reception versus banquet; worthy versus worth it; all of a sudden versus out of the blue Words: Constitution plantation delegate Federalist checks and balances amendment to capture opponent ne

美语听力 English Café 490

Topics: Famous Americans-Muhammad Ali; The Golden Gate Bridge; valuable versus invaluable; north/south versus northern/southern; common ground and universal experience Words: to take up professionally agile to reign nationalist social activist to be

美语听力 English Café 491

Topics: American Presidents-Rutherford B. Hayes; emission versus propagation; he/she don't; to do (someone's) bidding Words: slavery to oppose to secede to abolish to run for office to nominate rumor corrupt to uphold to interfere intention to be qua

美语听力 English Café 493

Topics: Americans Abroad-The Founding of Liberia; The Gateway Arch; to struggle versus to fight versus to carry on; to churn and burn; hipster doofus Words: to sponsor to colonize liberty to declare intention abolitionist gateway arch to expand memor

美语听力 English Café 494

Topics: American Authors-Jack London; Our Gang and The Little Rascals; gruesome versus horrible versus disgusting; son of a gun; to lash out Words: adventure natural selection genes socialism to be disciplined sled series gang short film cast to impr

美语听力 English Café 487

Topics: The Lenny Bruce Trial; American Cancer Society; to assume versus to guess; turtle versus tortoise Words: satirist to hone obscenity to ban censorship freedom of speech to declare bankruptcy cancer nonprofit screening test to diagnose to fund

美语听力 English Café 496

Topics: Ask an American-Digital music technology; It's called being nice versus It's called been nice; to stutter versus to stumble; mean Words: social media to be signed by record label liberating to do shows to build a brand reputation streaming se

美语听力 English Café 489

Topics: American Authors-Alex Haley; American Bandstand; continuous versus contiguous; let alone and to kick the bucket; the birds and bees talk Words: journalism freelance autobiography genealogy to capture slavery descendant fictional to air segmen

美语听力 English Café 492

Topics: Movies-Twelve Angry Men; Washington National Cathedral; cool versus awesome; closure and mental loafer; no biggie Words: jury trial evidence defendant prosecution to deliberate preexisting prejudice subjective cathedral service sermon cool aw

美语听力 English Café 488

Topics: American Musicals/Movies-The Producers; The Statue of Liberty; sponsored by versus powered by versus encouraged by; putting the crunch back; hoochie Words: producer flop to seduce scam flamboyant fishy liberty torch tablet to commemorate pede

美语听力 English Café 495

Topics: Famous Americans-Jim Henson and The Muppets; The Doors; peculiar versus freaky; ambiance versus environment; to wet (one's) whistle Words: suburb puppet marionette behind-the-scenes to feature to negotiate rights to come down with psychedelic

美语听力 English Cafe 283

Topics: The FBI; Famous Americans: Margaret Mead; shall versus should versus supposed to; beneath versus underneath; fo shizzle my nizzle Words: investigation threat to cross state lines mail fraud wiretapping counterterrorism g-men anthropologist to

美语听力 English Cafe 246

Topics: Ask an American: Father Damien and leprosy; bring versus take; And you?; trustworthy versus honest Words: beacon to despair faith to exile to shun legacy affection on (ones) behalf bottom line to bring to take trustworthy honest

美语听力 English Cafe 03

Today's topics: Meeting the Queen, the Oscars, Smoking and Driving in the U.S., Audio Index, At this point

美语听力 English Cafe 259

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

美语听力 English Cafe 284

Topics: John Audubon and the Audubon Society; Famous Songs: On Top of Old Smokey; sign versus signal; figure out versus find out; to beat a dead horse Words: ornithologist to sketch naturalist to illustrate bird-banding taxidermy to become extinct to