2007年VOA标准英语-Hoobastank Returns After Three-Year Break
时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(四月)
Washington
23 April 2007
Hoobastank
Although the members of the Los Angeles rock band Hoobastank are still in their mid-twenties, they have spent over a decade writing and performing music. The veteran 1 band has already enjoyed international success with their 2004 single "Reason", which sold millions and made their strange moniker a household word. Hoobastank's 2007 world tour includes stops in South Africa, Japan and Indonesia. Before flying to Johannesburg to perform in Africa's biggest rock festival, Hoobastank's Doug Robb and Dan Estrin spoke 2 with VOA's Larry London.
Hoobastank's third album, "Everyman For Himself," sold more than 100,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week of release 3 last year, and proved that Hoobastank was more than a "one-hit wonder."
Singer/songwriter Doug Robb says the band took a new approach to making music on their third album. "With this album, we wrote a bunch of songs and kept them at their early stage of development. We went in (to the studio) with them at early stages of development. We let them grow in the studio, which is interesting, because I'd go in one day, and I have no idea what kind of sounds we were going to get, and really wondered how certain songs were going to sound, you know, which is cool."
And unlike earlier Hoobastank albums, the new CD explored issues other than love and relationships.
"As far as writing the songs,” says Robb, “it is always about where I was personally and philosophically 5 in my own life. The reason there is not lots of relationship-based songs in this record, maybe one or two out of 12. A lot of it is just more philosophical 4 or life observational-type songs, which, kind of shows where I was at that time, and I may not be there anymore. You want to sing about a lot of different things."
"The Reason", released 6 in 2004, has remained the band's most successful song ever by topping charts in the U.S., and staying on Canada's Top 10 for a record-breaking 20 weeks.
Doug Robb reflects on their success. "If that is or was the most successful point of our careers, I would not change it."
The band came up with its meaningless but memorable 7 name while playing after-school parties. They planned to change it as soon as they signed with a major label. But the studio urged them to keep the name.
"People don't realize that we have been in this band for 12 years,” Robb says. “Twelve years ago we were playing, you know, after-school parties, stuff 8 like that. We were a much quirkier, less-serious band at the time. The name has that quirky, silly feel to it. But we grew and the name didn't. It is what it is now, and it is one of those things that, strangely enough, has become a semi-household name. Whether they like it or not, people have heard of it, and they remember it once they hear it."
- My grandfather is a veteran of the Second World War.我祖父是二战时的老兵。
- We often asked the veteran workers for advice.我们常常向老工人求教。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- After my examination I had a feeling of release.考完试后我有如释重负之感。
- This medicine will give you release from pain.这药吃后会解除你的疼痛。
- The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
- She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。
- He added philosophically that one should adapt oneself to the changed conditions. 他富于哲理地补充说,一个人应该适应变化了的情况。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Harry took his rejection philosophically. 哈里达观地看待自己被拒的事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
- With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him. 事后才说他们本不应该释放他,这倒容易。
- This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
- The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。