VOA标准英语2015--Top 5 Songs for Week Ending March 14
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(三月)
Top 5 Songs for Week Ending March 14
Here are the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending March 14, 2015.
Our one-new-song-per-week policy is humming along nicely. Hozier leaves the Top Five, while Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney return to contention 2 with “FourFiveSeconds.” Rihanna and Kanye are all over the news this week.
For the third year in a row, Rihanna is the most popular female act on the streaming service Spotify. As for Kanye, he just finished a four-show residency in Paris as part of Paris Fashion Week. Both Kanye and Rihanna have albums on the way; he’s executive producing her set, and a joint 3 tour is rumored 4 to be in the works.
It’s a “down” week for Ellie Goulding (Golding), as “Love Me Like You Do” - from the "Fifty Shades of Grey" soundtrack - weakens a slot in fourth place. Ellie hits the road every day - she’s a fitness fanatic 5 who especially enjoys running: she’s done five half-marathons and is a spokesperson for Nike.
Taking over third place is Maroon 6 5, who go the remix route for their latest hit “Sugar.” A new remix features Nicki Minaj - and this isn’t the first time Maroon 5 has enlisted 7 rappers to sweeten up their songs: Big Sean handled the remix of “Maps,” while “Animals” featured two remixes: one with J. Cole and the other with Big Boi.
Holding steady in second place is Ed Sheeran, with “Thinking Out Loud.” Ed went on Instagram to share a letter from a fan in South Korea and well, you could say something was lost in translation. It said, “You are a little ugly, but I love you!” Ed captioned 8 it, “God bless Korea.”
Holding the Hot 100 title for a ninth big week are Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, with “Uptown Funk.” It’s also the champ in the U.K…putting it in pretty special company. Mark and Bruno follow in the footsteps of Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)”; Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” and Rihanna’s “Umbrella.”
That’s it for now, but a new lineup awaits you next week.
- 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。
- The pay increase is the key point of contention. 加薪是争论的焦点。
- The real bone of contention,as you know,is money.你知道，争论的真正焦点是钱的问题。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- It is rumored that he cheats on his wife. 据传他对他老婆不忠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- It was rumored that the white officer had been a Swede. 传说那个白人军官是个瑞典人。 来自辞典例句
- Alexander is a football fanatic.亚历山大是个足球迷。
- I am not a religious fanatic but I am a Christian.我不是宗教狂热分子，但我是基督徒。
- Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.埃文河决堤的时候，有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。
- Robinson Crusoe has been marooned on a desert island for 26 years.鲁滨逊在荒岛上被困了26年。
- enlisted men and women 男兵和女兵
- He enlisted with the air force to fight against the enemy. 他应募加入空军对敌作战。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》