【词汇大师】词的海洋(1/2)

英语自学网

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词典问：主人，今天你抚摸了我吗？
TIPS
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  "And as I understand it, he believed that the nation -- the new nation -- really needed a national language."
HITS
Federalist
Grammatical Institute
Speller

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"Well, he did a lot of things. He was a patriot. He was at Yale University when the [American] revolution broke out, and then he had to leave school for the revolution. He came back and finished his degree there. After the revolution, he was an early newspaperman, a columnist. And then he was a Federalist -- until his death, I think, but certainly early on, defending the revolution and a great supporter of it."
   
"That's right. And so he was a considerable educator. In fact, his first books were called -- there were three books, all part of what he called the Grammatical Institute, and the first one was the Speller, which continued in print until well past nineteen hundred. So that book was in print for more than a hundred years."