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
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adjectival nouns
adriamycins
afterdamp
air temperature corrction
Ammania
aphyllidine
arithmetic module
artificial fact
atmospheric pressure cavity
Banyumas
bending jackstay
bobbin dyeing
Bockum-Hovel
botas
bread and cheese
briary
central american floral region
chaunch
coal characteristic
coal-tar gas
coigny
community participation
counter septum
counterfact
darksome
deep-yellow
Devonshire sausage
Dhareja
direct broadcast satellite system
disaffiliated
El Ciego
epigenetic structure
error free coding
ethical characteristic
eventified
final solution
first law of thermo-dynamics
fraises des bois
funeral parlors
go overboard for
good will
good-tempereds
half tide dock
handle-bar gear change
inner shell electron
iron works
Ishiguro, Kazuo
isothermal environment
jacketed insulation
lap siding
leading line
light extinction
lizard's tails
loading dead time
loading header
Lubiszyn
map/epa gateway
MHP
morpholine salicylate
nano-steradians
neornithines
net resident population density
nonlyrical
not-pology
note-paper
oblatio
Old Prussians
operating error
packed red blood cells
parcel receipt
parental responsibility
park-way
physically settled
plasmolyses
polyethylene oxide
preliminary candidate
psychic surgeon
residue oil
Saraykoy
Scale-rule
sea water quality standard
shift right double
simultaneous engagement
Sol X
st. anselms
stand on my bottom
sterilizing immunity
stomach qi
swensens
taperstick
the shadow economy
the UN
theomania
transaction cycle
transformational analysis of factorial data
tristable trigger circuit
trust-control
Tucacas
uterine milk
weather forecast for shipping
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