美语听力 English Cafe 55

Topics: Genealogy¹, Bill Cosby, to get down on your knees vs. to get down on one knee

Words:
blood relative
miniseries
ancestor
to trace your family tree
hyphenated American
cemetery
birth certificate
Mormons
stand-up comedian
to tell a joke
album
cartoon
upper-class
to get down on your knees
to get down on one knee
 

1 genealogy   

n.家系，宗谱

参考例句：

• He had sat and repeated his family's genealogy to her,twenty minutes of nonstop names.他坐下又给她细数了一遍他家族的家谱，20分钟内说出了一连串的名字。
• He was proficient in all questions of genealogy.他非常精通所有家谱的问题。