时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)


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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Jan. 2


In this week's Top Five Countdown we’re celebrating the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending January 2, 2016.


The final countdown of 2015 yields no new music…just a little shuffling 2. We start out in fifth place, where Justin Bieber may be in trouble again.


Bieber slips a slot 3 to fifth place with his former champion single “What Do You Mean?” Bieber’s been aggressively promoting his Purpose album…maybe a little too aggressively. Officials in San Francisco are demanding that his team clean up advertising 4 graffiti that was spray-painted on sidewalks. Purpose came out on November 13… and they want the offending material removed quickly.


Meanwhile, over in the United Kingdom, things are going a little better for the pop singer.


Bieber replaces himself at number four, as “Love Yourself” rises a slot. He just lost the race to the Christmas number one position in the U.K., as the National Health Service Choir 5 took the pole position with “A Bridge Over You.” Justin had urged his fans to support the Choir, and later posted a congratulatory tweet.


Drake remains 6 stuck in third place with “Hotline Bling.” Last week the singer enjoyed an online reunion with an old friend, posting an Instagram photo of himself and actress Andrea Lewis. More than a decade ago, their characters were romantically involved in the Canadian teen TV drama "Degrassi: The Next Generation."


Justin Bieber remains in the runner-up slot with “Sorry.” After spending Christmas in Canada with his family, he jetted off to the Caribbean. Accompanying him is his father Jeremy, his siblings 7, and his friend, model Hailey Baldwin. The Inquisitr web site reports that they’re believed to be in the Dominican Republic.


And, Adele had a very Merry Christmas…and a very profitable 8 one.


Adele rules the Hot 100 pop singles list for an eighth week with “Hello.” Her number one album 25 has now sold more than 7.1 million copies in the United States alone. It’s the first album to sell more than one million copies in three different weeks since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.


Can Adele keep up her momentum 9 in the new year? Join us in seven days and we’ll find out together!



1 billboard
n.布告板,揭示栏,广告牌
  • 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。
2 shuffling
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。
3 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
4 choir
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱
  • The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
  • The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
5 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
6 siblings
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
7 profitable
adj.有益的,能带来利益的,有利可图的
  • That business became profitable last year.那项生意去年变得很赚钱。
  • The convention business is very profitable for the hotel industry.承办会议业务能给旅馆业带来很高的利润。
8 momentum
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
学英语单词
amphioblous
aphakial
as tite
axis of the equator
blind piles
boulanite (barite)
bronowskis
bulkhead sheet
campylognathia
cfar(constant false alarm rate)
Chapalagana
chlorodesmis cosmosa bail. et harv.
class Hexapoda
Cocktail Swap
Corylus hetero-phylla Fisch.
counsellour
cross-grating
Cyphophthalmi
Daniell integral
delivering of goods
deviation from standard
dihydrophenanthrene
dikol
discrete optimization problem
drying effect
E-stamping
ecotopic
EDTA calcium complex disodium salt
endocythere bielii
eucardo
fayte
fetal presentation
fictilis
fixed size record
floor construction plan
gasoline leaded
grabbin
h-homes
Haller's tunica vasculosa
herlihy
Heteropygous
in whole
infrastructural facilities
intercuneiform
isoamyl benzoate
Jicamas
kaitiaki
lay out of route
leonhard
liquid pressing
loading booklet
longitudinal expansion joint
lubrication
MAPI
mcdo
Mesoamerican nephropathy
miss out on sth
monotransregulator
multistage deaerator
noised
norchlane
normal flying angle
oil pollution victim
onc(h)ocerciasis
one hundred per cent bar chart
parhemoglobin
pebrine
pituitary eunuchism
plate type oil cooler
posterior superior iliac spine
price-earning ratio
priorityrating
pseudobacillus
pure chance call
Pusztamérges
reckoning test
renu
repair coverage
rooter skunks
route investigation
secondary standard
shaft current
shit face
Spenserism
square scarf
Srednego, Ostrova
stall warning device
station light system
superfluid core
T.U.C.
tabrets
target concentration
tentation data
tie rod arm
tilting float
tug-of-wars
veniss
ver tiginous
weidner
Weigenheim
woodly
yompings