时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2015年(三月)


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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending March 28


These are the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending March 28, 2015


How to describe this week’s lineup? Well…it’s the same, but different. Hopefully that’s sufficiently 2 mysterious for you to stick around.


Let’s begin in fifth place, where Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney remain frozen with “FourFiveSeconds.” How did Paul get involved? He tells Britain’s NME that it started last summer, when he caught Kanye and Jay-Z in concert in London. He and Kanye began working together and to date, they’ve done three songs: “FourFiveSeconds,” “Only One,” and “All Day,” which traces its roots to an unreleased McCartney song from 1969.


Holding in fourth place is Ellie Goulding with “Love Me Like You Do.”  Ellie has sold an estimated four million albums and 15 million singles worldwide. Aside from selling a lot of records, she’s also a bit of a do-gooder…She’s active in charity, participating in philanthropic projects for the British Heart Foundation, the Los Angeles Unified 3 School District, Free The Children, and others. Ellie also sang in last year’s Band Aid 30 project to fight the spread of Ebola in Africa.


Falling a slot to third place is Ed Sheeran with “Thinking Out Loud.” He's touring Australia, and on March 24 was spotted 4 in Sydney, shooting a cameo appearance for the popular TV show "Home And Away". The episode will air later this year.


Jumping a slot to second place we have Maroon 5 5 and “Sugar.” The band is on a world tour, with a couple of particularly intriguing 6 stops on its schedule.  On June 6, they play at the Mawazine Festival in Morocco, while September 19 finds them in Singapore at the Formula 1 Grand Prix.


Up at number one it’s still Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars with “Uptown Funk.” That makes 11 weeks, and that’s pretty special… It’s only the 19th single in Hot 100 history to rule for that long. It last happened in 2013, when “Blurred Lines” spent 12 weeks at the top.


So, that’s it for now, but as always…the charts never sleep! We'll be back next week with a brand new lineup.



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 sufficiently
adv.足够地,充分地
  • It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
  • The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
3 unified
(unify 的过去式和过去分词); 统一的; 统一标准的; 一元化的
  • The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
  • The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。
4 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
5 maroon
v.困住,使(人)处于孤独无助之境;n.逃亡黑奴;孤立的人;酱紫色,褐红色;adj.酱紫色的,褐红色的
  • Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.埃文河决堤的时候,有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。
  • Robinson Crusoe has been marooned on a desert island for 26 years.鲁滨逊在荒岛上被困了26年。
6 intriguing
adj.有趣的;迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词);激起…的好奇心
  • These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
  • It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a good onion
Achates
administrative privileges
aleyrodess
aplysia kurodai
Astrazol
augurship
Baeksan
ball grid array
batch distillation
bourdon tube viscometer
brass finisher's lathe
butane-butylene fraction
campanion cell
canvas opera
cargo passenger ship
Carrel treatment
cartmell
centrifugal superfractionator
Coin cell battery
common chickweed
communitive
competitive protein-binding assay
conversion with the co-efficient
cyclodepsipeptide
damagement
data set
deluxe liner
denman gl.
diffusing type steam valve
dimethyldichlorosilane
drone anti-submarine helicopter
dunta
duplex uterus
eigenanatomy
fards
fiber optic distortion
field-enhanced secondary emission
friarhood
gaming houses
gammabufotalininol
Ganglion sympatheticum
geocarpic
getgo
gonocephalum sauteri
granddad
Hinton, Christopher Baron Hinton of Bankside
hullabaloos
icecold
improper amendment
intelligent hub
Khosrau II
leptocladine
Neolitsea chrysotricha
neologistics costs
OC gas
orbit effect
oscillator utilizing negative resistance
Paeonia albiflora Pall.
polar faunal group
positive variation
powries
premotional
protoplasmic-fibrous astrocyte
radiocirculography
rashied
recursive thought
refrigerant oil
Retardican
Rhadinopsylla dahurica vicina
sale of vessel clause
scalar network analyzer
separate carry representation
Shastra
Shumariyah, Jab.ash
silver (ag)
single measuring range
slowdives
special accessory
split-second heart
squatritis
srinivasans
standard rolling twist equipment
stream aerator
Striatoabietites
sulphormethoxinum
teabreaks
three-quarter-inch
thrift shops
Thurles
tidal gravimeter
time-derived channel
toinette
ultra - violet radiation
upright sitting position headrest
vidai
Vincent's mixture
Vlasovskiy
war head
wobensmith
xanthoproteic
XFP