【词汇大师】记住（2/2）

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记住那年发生的关键词吗？
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本篇中，主持人的话不用听写，只听写嘉宾的话。
主持人的话：①  But the name of the next president, who will take office on Tuesday, was the winner in the category of Most Useful.

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"They sound, in the mouths of Americans, they sound almost exactly alike. You have to carefully articulate yourself and say it very slowly in order for the difference to be heard. But most people, you can't tell the difference except if you're reading it in print."  
"Well, I don't know how it couldn't be the winner there, given there were so many words coined off of his name that Slate magazine made a book out of them, a little dictionary. And I fully except the next four years to be Obamalicious as people keep coining more and more words off of his name.
   
"You know, the thing about Obama, the last name in particular, is that it's vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel. It's really easy to say and it lends itself to form blends. That is where you take two words and you mix them together. Particularly if their syllable, like the last syllable of Obama, is the same as the first syllable of another word, it's very easy to blend them."