时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(六月)


英语课

By Doug Levine
Washington
19 June 2006
 
Offstage she's Mrs. Mindi Abair-Steele, but onstage fans still know her as jazz sax sensation 1 Mindi Abair. As we hear from VOA's Doug Levine, getting married was just one of several life-changing events that figured into Abair's latest album "Life Less Ordinary."


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Life's ups and downs are indeed the stuff 2 great records are made of. For Mindi, the past year has been mostly up. There's the new album, which has even surpassed 3 Mindi's expectations. And, yes, there was her recent marriage to composer Jason Steele.


"Getting married changes a lot of aspects of your life," she said. "For some people it makes them happier and for some people it makes them sadder, angrier or something. For me, it's just been a really cool change of life. It's nice to come home to a great guy every night. He's been nothing but supportive."


 
Mindi Abair
  
Mindi Abair has always had lots of support, especially from her parents. Whether it was banging 4 on the keys of a piano when she was four years old or working in her father's band, music was an around-the-clock endeavor 5. When it came time to choose an instrument, Mindi decided 6 on the one that brought her father success, the saxophone.


"My dad is a big fan of what I do," she said. "He's funny. I'll show demos and stuff as we're making a record so he'll give his two cents. Sometimes we'll take his two cents and sometimes we don't. So he'll call me from the car, he's done this a few times, [and say] 'You know, the CD is just really great. I can't stop listening to it.'" 



Life Less Ordinary  
  
"The songs on this CD just started coming out of me, and as I piled up a few of them I just realized each one is kind of a snapshot of a different area of my life," she continued. "So many different things happened this past year, from getting married, and [Hurricane] Katrina, that was 10 times as hard as anything we've been hit by. So I actually wrote a song called 'Rain' and I dedicated 7 it to the victims of Hurricane Katrina."


For Mindi Abair, criss-crossing the country on a whirlwind tour, giving television and radio interviews day and night, and already at work on her next album, life at the moment is anything but ordinary.



n.感觉,感知力,激动,轰动
  • He lost all sensation in his legs through cramp.他的腿部因抽筋而失去知觉。
  • Seeing him again after so many years was a strange sensation.那么多年以后又见到他,是一种不可思议的感觉。
n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
v.超过( surpass的过去式和过去分词 );优于;多于;非…所能办到
  • This realization of our dreams surpassed even our wildest expectations. 我们梦想的实现甚至超越了我们最大胆的估计。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mao's fame surpassed well beyond the limits of China. 毛泽东的名声远远超越了中国国界。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
vt.猛击,猛撞(bang的现在分词形式)
  • The baby was banging the table with his spoon. 小宝宝用调羹敲打着桌子。
  • Stop banging around, children, Father is trying to sleep. 孩子们,别到处乱敲!爸爸想睡觉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt./n.努力,尽力,尝试
  • Thereupon,we knew,our endeavor was valuable.于是,我们知道,我们的努力是有价值的。
  • We endeavor to make our customers satisfied.我们力图使顾客都满意。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
学英语单词
aitcheson
albuminoreaction
appetisse
As you brew,so shall you bake.
barragon
bone head
Bonfeld
cargo throughput
celesticetin
channel for oiling
chill strip
coneshaped
consumer credits
creeping chill
Cristina
Cymraeg
data recorder and verifier
defecation tank
denitrifying bacterium
diametral system
dinosaurus
dolman
electron unit
enduring deafness
errorlessly
ex factory price
exception control
excitation device
figure casement
finish inspection
folksongs
foot man
fritillaria imperialiss
germanite glass
glue joint failure
Habsburg
heavy duty crane
hereditary congenital ichthyosiform
hydro-mount
i/o function modifier
image processing technique
interferoscope
jesuitical
junetin
Kunigami
leb-
licensing key
lineata
magnesium propylate
methyl n-methyl-anthranilate
mhmr
mild slope
negative inventory
new lower bound part
nikau
non traditional exports
oidiomycosis unguium
ONZ
Ouratea striata
out-of-season
ozarks, lake of the
pansentience
papyrology
philippe de commines
play by electronic mail
pleurobranchid
plunger matching parts
pocket boom
pseudospectral
Purfleet
Rdutów
reflective mirror
residenzs
retrocatcaneal bursitis
rhesuss
rotary mechanical atomizing oil burner
sample median
set one's horses together
slow varying parameter
SMIO
solar array-battery system
spicule
star name
sucuuba
Tabanus bivittatus
thawing condition
thelypteris ornata
thermal protection shield
thermal test of superheater and reheater
Thermodesulfobacteria
trilaminate
trophoplasmic
trouble chart
unadherent
unseemliest
upcast fan
voice identification
volume dilatation
waiting-in-progress signal
wave of explosion
wringing number
YHMD