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
ab initio
ab-farad
acculturationist
Albania
albines
Andritsana
autocued
bambinos
big powerstation
Black Pope
broadcast protocol multiprocessor
bubble-free operation
chondrology
chromophane
clientside
closed-loop estimation method
coaggregation
cockerelliella bladhiae
convection heat losses
convergence almost surely
coolridge
corysterium
cuesta face
Cyperus serotinus
decasecond
degenerative sialosis
diaphus schmidti
dictyostelium exiguum
directional error
Discocyclina
divided winding rotor
draftsman'scale
dwm
eclectick
Eduskunta
electric cable conduit
exacrinous
Exira
existing subsystem
fan dances
feedback characteristic
financial advantage
first shoot
four point resistivity test system
gold bloc
Gran Altiplanicie Central
grassed waterway
haglin
helius (helius) barbatus
hothouse plant
hyperdesk
Kopp's rule
Kuala Dungun
lemon eucalyptus
lovely white glaze
macroworld
married alive
miemies
modeliar
n-level logic
non-rapid eye movement sleep
off tracking
offshore breakwater
osteomyelitis of vertebra
outerness
output connection matrix
Pervenchères
plastic paint
plumpie
porcelain granule
Prodasone
punctate calcification
radas
reactor thermo-hydraulics
recoil nuclei counter tube
resistively
resporulations
s hydrograph
say ... say
separalty
sign language
sketch plate
skiddy-cock
social context
soft textive
solid fused
speculate about
speech-system grammar
spiral-knife cutterhead
star topolgy
stepped treating
structural anthropology
stump powder
subsidiary account
taper bolt
tax exile
teater
the national basketball association
Tsingera, Mys
tuaths
twohig
unstable crack growth