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
air power, airpower
Altes Lager
Anglophiliacs
anti-termination
argumentation from analogy
arm pull
arm spool pin
below one's dignity
blue leg
Brassica juncea
brewer's grain
brookable
Burghaslach
butyl oleate
Ca-EDTA
canal san bovo
cane furniture
Ch'angch'on-ri
charge against
chicle gums
chimuyil
civil division
clearing house stock
conjugated molecule
conventional rate of interest
conventionalised
cooling cycle
darkness adaption
dispatch map
dissemination of quantity value
dysdiadokokinesis
dysmenorrhoeas
dystone spar
eggplant purple
eisners
emphyteuta
extended group coded recording
family of files
field practices
granophyer
helium supply system
Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui
hydrocarbon fuelgas
hydrogen-cooled synchronous compensator
Ibare
identification of fishing vessel
imperfectly elastic body
inquiry session
Juez, Cerro
knee jerks
knit tops
large area scintillation counter
laser detection and ranging
latch opener
Legal Person of Profit Making
Lewis with Harris
Likuri Harb.
line conditioning
liquid pressure drive
lobatus
LSLs
milli-gray
missional
moistening dryness and resolving phlegm
molinero
monkey drill
mouth-spatula-system
nin-a-kin
offset cultivator
paretic curve
passing to
permeable groyne
phaeochromin
presses on
proditious
progressive dryer
prostater
rating value
relative major
remittors
reversed wavelet
scaleable
shrub-grassland
slender cone
small-house
somatolactotroph
splotchiest
structured Cartesian coordinate programming
subtense method with vertical staff
super heat resisting alloy
supplementary raw material
Taraxacum consanguineum
tavistocks
test oil-well cement
triplicato-
unimaginability
wadsetters
water-horse
wooden stave flume
Yasuura
yday,