VOA标准英语2015--Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Feb. 28
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(二月)
Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Feb. 28
We’re partying with the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending February 28, 2015.
This week, we greet a true musical legend. He’s just minutes away, but first Maroon 2 5 steps back a slot to fifth place with “Sugar.”
On Sunday, the band was in Los Angeles performing at the Academy Awards. Adam Levine and company sang “Lost Stars,” from the movie Begin Again. It was nominated for Best Original Song, but lost to “Glory,” by John Legend and Common.
Now, as for that musical legend we mentioned: Paul McCartney turns up in our fourth-place song, “FourFiveSeconds,” along with Rihanna and Kanye West. It’s the lead single from Rihanna’s upcoming eighth album, which features Kanye as executive producer. We don’t have a release date yet, but it should be soon. Paul’s been away from the Top Five for a very long time… he hasn’t cracked the U.S. Top Five since 1983, when he and Michael Jackson topped the Hot 100 with “Say Say Say.”
It’s all a bit of an anti-climax from here, we're afraid. Good ol’ Hozier remains 3 in third place with “Take Me To Church", which has hit number one in 12 countries, including Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lebanon, Poland, and Switzerland.
Ed Sheeran spends another week in second place with “Thinking Out Loud.” On February 25, he was at the BRIT Awards, where picked up two trophies 4. Ed won the coveted 5 Best British Male Solo Artist and British Album awards. After that he flew to the Middle East and India before touring Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. One week’s rest…and then he hits South America!
Up at number one, it’s a lucky seventh week and counting for Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars with “Uptown Funk.” This single is topping charts the world over, but there’s one place you’ll never hear Mark sing… He told the New York Post that while the song’s a hit, he knows his own voice is terrible…and he won’t even sing in the shower.
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。