时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)


英语课
By Mary Morningstar
Washington
17 December 2007

More than a dozen Country holiday albums were released this season. Top sellers include new collections by Toby Keith, Taylor Swift and Diamond Rio. VOA's Mary Morningstar reports on a compilation 1 that's also a favorite this year, "Hear Something Country - Christmas 2007."


"Let It Be Christmas" by Alan Jackson is one of 14 holiday songs on Hear Something Country - Christmas 2007.  Alan wrote "Let It Be Christmas" for his 2002 album of the same name. Also featured on Hear Something Country - Christmas 2007 are seven newly-recorded tracks. They include Carrie Underwood's version of "Do You Hear What I Hear," which was originally sung by the Harry 2 Simeone Chorale in 1962; Kellie Pickler's jazzy rendition of Eartha Kitt's 1953 hit "Santa Baby;" and, Canadian Country singer Terri Clark's bluegrass version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem."


Among the album's previously-released tracks are Brad Paisley's personalized version of "Winter Wonderland," Kenny Chesney's reggae-inspired cover of "Jingle 3 Bells" and Montgomery Gentry's 2001 rendition of Robert Earl Keen's tongue-in-cheek song about a Texas-style Christmas, "Merry Christmas From The Family."


Only one song on Hear Something Country - Christmas 2007 was released before 1999. The late Johnny Cash first recorded his version of "Silent Night" for his 1963 album, Christmas Spirit.


Two songs on Hear Something Country - Christmas 2007 are currently climbing Billboard's Country Singles chart - "Santa Baby" by 2006 American Idol 4 finalist Kellie Pickler" and "Do You Hear What I Hear" by 2005 American Idol winner Carrie Underwood.




n.编译,编辑
  • One of the first steps taken was the compilation of a report.首先采取的步骤之一是写一份报告。
  • The compilation of such diagrams,is of lasting value for astronomy.绘制这样的图对天文学有永恒的价值。
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
n.叮当声,韵律简单的诗句;v.使叮当作响,叮当响,押韵
  • The key fell on the ground with a jingle.钥匙叮当落地。
  • The knives and forks set up their regular jingle.刀叉发出常有的叮当声。
n.偶像,红人,宠儿
  • As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
  • Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
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aestheticism
amphithallic
anomaly detection
B cell
banalities
bassingbourns
be running a fever
beckons
begunks
bi- colour light
boundary effect in geography
bulthaup
calvia quatuordecimguttata
careyn
category analysis
Chlormethylencycline
cleviss
commodity in warehouse
concentrated pool
corbicula insularis
counter-band
creamy candy
currant-jelly clot
double stagger tuning
droplea
dynamic fracture mechanics
Eisenrosen
emulsifier ABSCa
European partridge
family belostomatidaes
feedback deletion hypothesis
first bit
forced damped vibration
forceps hamostatic
Grangousier
grappa
gravitational acceleration unit (g)
grease bag
grease gun lever type
ground truth sites
hematomphalus
hochster
homonid
hysterical personality disorder
ikea
in-parallel
independently-owned
interesting stuff
interrupt declaration
lines of reasoning
manans
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miswire
montecristo
more-balanced
mulctative
mutation line
noscitur a sociis
orchestric
ordnance service
out-beard
Palaeocyclus
parity detector
parostoses
pendarvis
personalization of check
petrifying sarcoma
Plimsoll marks
postnatal development
pot rubber bearing
preference order
processus styloides ossis metacarpi iii
pushmi-pullyu
quadrature demodulator
qualifying position
rapheal nucleus of pons
realigned
refrigerated storage
Rhododendron kendrickii
right angled coordinates
Rubus sempervirens
salicylic acid ethyl ester
samizdat
sappositorium scopoliae
section house
semi-pros
Shahīdān
sodium phthalimide
sprongs
stanilo
stratiform sulfide
sulfo
Sus.
tappet rod complement
Tethys
Topfer's test
Vitis thunbergii
voice analyzer
water and steam
wind energy resources
x-plors
xxies