时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


英语课

Ayumi Hamasaki, a.k.a. "Ayu", is dubbed 1 "the Empress of Japanese Pop". She is hugely popular in Japan and is one of the country’s few singers ever to become known overseas. She was born in 1978 on Japan’s southern island Kyushu. She moved to Tokyo when she was 14 because she wanted to become a superstar. After a brief spell as a model, she got into singing.


In 1998, she released several singles that did OK in the Japanese charts, but did not give her the fame she desired. Her 1999 debut 2 album ‘A Song for XX’ debuted 3 at number one in the music charts and stayed there for four weeks in a row. Ayu had arrived and her adoring fans loved her. She quickly became an icon 4 and a style sensation.


She has sold over 50 million records, making her one of Japan's best-selling singers ever. She holds the record for a Japanese female having the most number-one singles and for having a number-one single every year for ten consecutive 5 years. Her music videos are the most extravagant 6 and expensive ever made by a non-American.


In 2008, Hamasaki revealed that she had become totally deaf in one ear, and that her condition was permanent. Despite this setback 7, she stated that she would continue singing. She told her fans that she would "not give up" on them, and that "as a professional", she would like to "deliver the best performance for everyone".



1 dubbed
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 debut
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • 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。
3 debuted
初次表演,初次登台(debut的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • In late 2003 a full-size SUV, the Pathfinder Armada, debuted. 2003年末,全尺寸SUV的探路者无敌舰队,推出。
  • The album debuted at number two and quickly went platinum. 专辑一亮相就荣登排行榜第二名,很快就取得了白金销量。
4 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
5 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
6 extravagant
adj.奢侈的;过分的;(言行等)放肆的
  • They tried to please him with fulsome compliments and extravagant gifts.他们想用溢美之词和奢华的礼品来取悦他。
  • He is extravagant in behaviour.他行为放肆。
7 setback
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
学英语单词
aerohypsometer
Aggrenox
Alvercol
anterior radiocarpal ligaments
Argentine tango
arolla
bargain with
batan
be immersed to the lips
be unable to see the wood for the trees
belted plain
bench tunnel portal
bipolar microprogram control unit
cabinet cooler
caddoes
Caesaristic
cardinal sins
carrier-and-stacker
central battery signalling unit
character size control
codlinged
combination circuit
cyclegraph
D. S. B.
data validation testing
decalcomania
dehydrated alcohol
dentifactor
dike set
direct current sputtering
directory facility
dispersion definition
docteur
double-jgroove
ellsworths
exact linear function
extor under false pretences
farnogram
filter-pad
fools around with
foreign currency transactions
Fourierites
fried shrimps with pepper sauce
gas-turbine railcar
group grope
Gurjaani
have first dibs on
hencoop
hendecanoic acid
in the same strain
individual proprietor
initial surplus
laser retina photocoagulator
live-rollers
livitation
luminosity segregation
lute tablature
macroeconomic statistics
negative stereotropism
Neolepisosus
non-standard analysis
nurudea shiraii
piecewise adjustment
Pinheiro Marcado
pipamperone
plague of hail
pleochroism (polychroism)
pure argon column
QIC (quality insurance chain)
Ranunculus fraternus
rod shears
rotary balance log
rough concentration
Roumana
run the foil
Russowia sogdiana
sedimentation velocity method
shakily
side thrust roller
side-to-side ileoileostomy
single tube ventilation set
Sinowilsonia
sortments
spellbound
stability moment
statement of income
stomatic
Sybil attacks
take something out on someone
take the side of sb
terminal dispensing station
Teverya
torchinsky
turbinates
turbulence element
two-way joists
Uncinula
Vardište
variable-speed metering pump
vegetable-oil
Vena jugularis anterior
wide meter