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
acupunctatus
asset price inflation
atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel
Bantu
base analog
basic issues
bistable memory
bottle stores
broadcatching
card read punch unit
catarosine
cirque moraine
Clinohollandite
clobuzarit
colobus rufomitratus
continuous heavy duty service
cordiform teeth
cynopterus sphinxes
dank
directly-coupled circuit turbine
Dispette
distiller's product
dorsccuboidal reflex
dry-laid masonry wall
electromagnetic design
enanthic acid ester
endives
etching press
faithfuls
fiducial confidence intervals
field mill voltmeter
flammid
formaldehydesulfoxylate
forward planning
frost hardiness
gangrenes
gasserian ganglion (or semilunar ganglion)
general share
get an idea of
Gunhāna
Haeser's coefficient
high tempering
horizontal reciprocating cryogenic liquid pump
hydro-penumatic riveter
ilio-
image-forming receiver
inferior alveolar artery
inhospitable
inner hexagon spanner
jaguarundi
Jonny-come-lately
kindly remit by check
limiting test
Lobelia radicans
Mahonia subimbricata
Malaya disease
Mangawhai
mansios
Martiniquan
mastix
materials and supplies in transit
mid band impurity
Millstone round your neck
mitigated ether
monilial colitis
mosquito repellent
multiphoton process
new-york court of appeals
nichrosi
non-impact printer
nonflammable paint
officiperd
on-stream time
optical band gap
optical fiber links
oralia
phenylmercurial
pleuroweisia schliephackei limpr.
PLpl
poroepithelioma folliculare
potassium phenoxide
primary capacitance
rhachillas
rhaphium popularis
runaway speed curve
SASAR
septembers
Septum intermusculare cruris posterius
setdate
shore-side
silver medalists
specialty elastomer
synchronous altitude gravity gradient experiment
Tammann tube
tarum
ter-polymer
tetraloops
tinnitus cranii
underbears
water rat
wave-front reconstruction
weight