English Recordings

A．Thank you for calling ABC corporation.
B．Hello. Could you put me through to Mr. Haynes?
A．Certainly. May I ask who's calling, please?

A．How many hours did you actually work?
B．Uh...12 hours in total. Why?
A．You do the math. It's like $8 an hour.

A．You look more like your mom now.　　
B．I get that a lot lately. We have a lot in common.
A．Like mother, like daughter, right?

A．Come on in. What's up?
B．Wow. What happened to your room?
A．Sorry about the mess. I was just looking for something.

A．She is such a mess.　
B．What do you mean?　
A．Looks like she's been drinking a lot.

Thank you Sam, she said with heavy irony.
Oh, that's just great, was her sarcastic reply.
Heart can be used in a literary way.
The dictionary marks stupid as disapproving.
In slang, wicked meand very good.
His pejorative comments about my essay upset me.
He called Mark and old woman: how insulting!

If you want to make something clear, it's better to avoid ambiguity.
She always expresses herself with accuracy and precision.
Hide and conceal are very similar, but not completely synonymous .
In most contexts, get better and improve are interchangeable.
I think this sentence is open to interpretation.
The instructions were self-explanatory; a child could understand them.

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garbage
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fat
light
mild
tasty
strict
hopeless
foolish
patient
bright
lovely
close
popular
colorful
diligent
costly
thin
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useless
deep
generous
history
husband
other
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butterfly

She was a powerful, intelligent ruler in the times when all kings were men. She was the last pharaoh of Egypt.

He was a track and field athlete. In the 1936 Summer Olympics he won four gold medals.

He was one of the world's most famous tenors.

He is famous for the discovery that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, which was the starting point for modern astronomy.

They were film stars. They were American. Their first names are Chico, Harpo and Groucho.

The Marx Brothers

They were born in the 1890s, they were very popular and very funny American actors. Kids loved them.

Laurel and Hardy

She fought against segregation and racial inequalities. In 1955 she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. A bus boycott was organised by black activists to protest against her arrest.

Rosa Parks

He was a Sioux chief, he was born in South Dakota. He refused to be moved to a reservation and joined forces with Sitting Bull. He won the battle of Little Big Horn in 1576.

Crazy Horse

They were famous criminals chased by the FBI all over the country. They were shot in a police ambush.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

A．I'm almost there.
B．We only have one more hour before the deadline.
A．I know. I'm trying.