时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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Boy band Take That have made their comeback complete with their first UK number one single in more than a decade.


'Patience' climbed to the top spot after landing at number four a week ago based on download sales alone.


The group's first number one was the hit 'Pray' in 1993. Take That split 1 up three years later but not before they had amassed 2 a huge fan base, sold more than 15 million records and scored eight number one hits.


Robbie Williams went on to become even more successful as a solo 3 artist after he left the band but, for the others, their days as Take That members remained their main claim to fame.


Today, Take That joins a growing number of bands who have re-formed or who are re-releasing previous hits. In the album charts this week, Irish boy band Westlife fended 4 off competition from Oasis 5, U2 and the Beatles to take the top slot 6 with The Love Album. All four of these bands have been together (or in the case of the Beatles were together) for many years. In fact, together, these bands have been making music for almost 50 years.


The rest of the current top ten features greatest hits collections from the likes of Jamiroquai, George Michael and Girls Aloud, meaning that Razorlight's self-titled album is the only top 10 album consisting of new material.


So what's the attraction of all these re-worked and re-released songs? Why do people buy tracks they've bought before? For many fans it's a chance to relive their teenage years, to remember and celebrate the early years of their music buying lives.


But why do the singers keep performing the same material year after year? The cynics amongst you might think it's all just another way for them to make more money for less work. But 61 year-old Rod Stewart, whose latest album has recently gone to number one in the USA, disagrees. He continues to sing the same songs that he's sung for more than 20 years because of the emotional outlet 7 they give him. Singing gives him total freedom. He says "When you're singing it's the most wonderful feeling."


GLOSSARY 词汇表


boy band 男子组合/乐队


comeback 重返;东山再起    


number one single 榜首单曲


download sales (网上)下载销售  


split up 解散;分道扬镳


amassed 聚拢  


fan base 粉丝群  


scored 获得  


a solo artist 独唱艺术家


claim to fame 靠老牌子叫响    


re-formed 重组  


re-releasing 重新发行     


the album charts 专辑榜


fended off competition 击败竞争对手  


top slot 榜首


greatest hits collections 精曲专辑   


self-titled 以个人名字命名的 


cynics 玩世不恭者;嘲笑者


tracks 唱片   


outlet 释放;发泄;排遣



n.劈开,裂片,裂口;adj.分散的;v.分离,分开,劈开
  • Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了?
  • The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。
v.积累,积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
  • They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.独奏,独唱;adj.单独的;adv.单独地;v.放单飞,单独表演
  • Tara is currently working on a solo album.塔拉眼下正忙着制作个人专辑。
  • There's wonderfully lyrical flute solo in the middle of this symphony.在交响乐中间有一段奇妙的抒情长笛独奏。
v.独立生活,照料自己( fend的过去式和过去分词 );挡开,避开
  • He neatly fended off a jab at his chest. 他利落地挡开了当胸的一击。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I fended off his sword thrust with my spear. 他一刀砍来,我拿枪架住。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.(沙漠中的)绿洲,宜人的地方
  • They stopped for the night at an oasis.他们在沙漠中的绿洲停下来过夜。
  • The town was an oasis of prosperity in a desert of poverty.该镇是贫穷荒漠中的一块繁荣的“绿洲”。
n.(口)位置,职位,狭长孔,狭槽
  • Put a coin in the slot.将硬币放入投币口。
  • He's been given a regular ten-minute slot on the radio.电台定期给他十分钟的节目广播时间。
n.出口/路;销路;批发商店;通风口;发泄
  • The outlet of a water pipe was blocked.水管的出水口堵住了。
  • Running is a good outlet for his energy.跑步是他发泄过剩精力的好方法。
学英语单词
adversary inspection
al-faisal
ambe
Ammannia baccifera
annual rate of profit
availabilities
baby's-breath
base ost
beer-cellar
benefit of inventory
bentsides
Bertrandville
BigLaw
bills of rights
breviaries
brymer
Buxus mollicula
cavazos
channel hopping
Class Days
confocal ellipsoid
crinoid
DAW (dry active waste)
dead to sb's feeling
deflourish
delayed blanking signal
descaling agent
dorsal ramus (or dorsal branch)
drop-error
elatum
electrokinetically
Elsholtzia saxatilis
envyfreeness
ergostanol
export-based
extension of algebra
fell home
filling-water monitoring
fix-point induction method
fling away on
flotation concentraction method
gemingas
general specifications
glance sideways
grassing up
Haliri
handyman
hexylthiophenes
itai-itai diseae
konarite (connarite)
launch games
live-steam
local oscillation frequency
Lyon-Horgan's operation
maximum limit of size
moisture-density relationship
moon blindnesses
mountain arc
N-acetyl-dl-methionine
neuropathic
northern suburbs
Norzine
one last time
out-of-balance voltage
palpatopercussion
paramphistome
Patrinia speciosa
period of element in group
pneumatic system for drilling-production equipment
public liability insurance
pyloric
recreational geography
region of runoff
remondite-(Ce)
sacko
Sao Tome
schiffner
search coil
shell still
singular orbit
skin layer
slag patch
solution procedure
sopherics
spare memory cell
spie-woman
spilling
Stepnoy
supra-national authority
Suzukia luchuensis
symmetric(al)
tear his away
teardowns
total capacity of resin
true blackberries
ultracrisp
watneys
whacked off
wilkeite
wygeon
yoderite