美语听力 English Cafe 302

　　Topics: Famous Americans: Thomas Edison; Liberia; symposium¹ versus² workshop versus seminar; to account for; “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”
Words:
inventor
prodigious
practical
phonograph
patent
entrepreneur
telegraph
wizard
perspiration
to repatriate
to colonize
elite
symposium
workshop
seminar
to account for
to negotiate

1 symposium   

n.讨论会，专题报告会；专题论文集

参考例句：

• What have you learned from the symposium?你参加了这次科学讨论会有什么体会？
• The specialists and scholars present at the symposium come from all corners of the country.出席研讨会的专家学者们来自全国各地。

2 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。