VOA标准英语2014--Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending July 26
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2014年(七月)
Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending July 26
This is the Top Five Countdown! We’re taking a look at the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending July 26, 2014.
You’ve no doubt heard the old expression “Good things come to those who wait.” That’s sure true this week, as our singles championship changes hands.
First, however - we need to begin at the beginning. Sam Smith spends another week in fifth place with “Stay With Me.” If you’re a fan, you’ll be happy to know another single is on the way. The 22-year-old sensation 2 has pulled a fourth single from his debut 3 album In The Lonely Hour. “I’m Not The Only One” arrives August 31 in the United Kingdom as a digital download, and the U.S. should soon follow.
Staying put in fourth place is the duo of Nico & Vinz, with “Am I Wrong.” Their upcoming album bears the title Black Star Elephant. They named it after the football teams from their ancestral countries: Nico’s from the Ivory 4 Coast with their Elephants, while Vinz’s parents came from Ghana - home of the Black Stars.
Holding at number three are Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea with their double platinum 5 hit “Problem” - it’s sold two million downloads in the United States. Ariana says she’s suffering from a problem of her own: noisy frogs. This week, she took to Twitter to complain about “insufferably loud frog sex” outside her bedroom window. She found respite 6 through an iPhone app which simulates 7 ocean sounds. Sleep well, Ariana.
Here’s where everything changes: seven-week champ Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX lose their Hot 100 title, as “Fancy” slips to second place. Comedian 8 Weird 9 Al Yankovic recently parodied 10 the double platinum hit. His song is titled “Handy,” and he says he got Iggy’s permission the old-fashioned way: by asking her in person. Al corralled Iggy after a performance in Denver…and says she agreed to it right away.
We have a new Hot 100 champion: MAGIC! takes the prize with “Rude.” The last reggae song to top the chart was Sean Paul’s “Get Busy” back in 2003. Furthermore, MAGIC! is a Canadian group - and the last bunch from north of the border to rule the Hot 100 was Nickelback with “How You Remind Me,” way back in 2001.
That’s all for today, but the charts never sleep! Join us next week for an exciting new lineup.
- He ploughed his energies into his father's billboard business.他把精力投入到父亲的广告牌业务中。
- Billboard spreads will be simpler and more eye-catching.广告牌广告会比较简单且更引人注目。
- 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。
- That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
- The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
- My grandmother has some jewelry made of ivory.我祖母有一些象牙首饰。
- It is carved from ivory.它是用象牙雕成的。
- I'll give her a platinum ring.我打算送给她一枚白金戒指。
- Platinum exceeds gold in value.白金的价值高于黄金。
- She was interrogated without respite for twenty-four hours.她被不间断地审问了二十四小时。
- Devaluation would only give the economy a brief respite.贬值只能让经济得到暂时的缓解。
- Viral bovine rhinotracheitis simulates and may be combined with shipping fever. 牛病毒性鼻气管炎和运输热相似，并可能和运输热同时发生。
- The insect simulates a twig. 这种昆虫看上去像一个小树枝。
- The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
- The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。