时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(一月)


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Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending Feb. 1


We’re singling out the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending February 1, 2014.


This week’s Top Five resembles James Bond’s favorite martini: shaken, not stirred. All five titles remain the same - they’re just in a different order. 


We open in fifth place, where Eminem and Rihanna slip two slots with “The Monster.” On January 26, Rihanna collected a Grammy award for Best Urban


Contemporary Album. Although she chose to skip the ceremony, Rihanna did make the scene at a pre-show party.


A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera rise a notch 2 to fourth place with “Say Something.” On January 21, the New York City duo released its debut 3 album, Is There Anybody Out There? It’ll make its entrance on next week’s Billboard chart.


OneRepublic steps back a slot to third place with “Counting Stars.” On January 24, Ryan Tedder 4 and his band played a special concert at the Apple campus in Cupertino, California. They were there to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh computer.


Katy Perry and Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia turned in one of the more eye-popping performances at Sunday’s Grammy show, and the song they did: “Dark Horse” rises a big two slots to second place. If this song goes all the way, it’ll be Katy’s ninth number one single in five years. That’s pretty impressive, but Juicy J has her trumped 5 in one category. Back in 2006, Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for Best Original Song, for “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp.”


Pitbull and Ke$ha share the Hot 100 pop singles title for a third straight week with “Timber.” How many Grammy Awards have these two artists won? The answer: Ke$ha has yet to collect her first Grammy, but Pitbull has a 2013 Latin Grammy to his credit. He won for Best Urban Performance.


Can “Dark Horse” send “Timber” crashing out of first place next week? Join us in seven days for the answer.



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 notch
n.(V字形)槽口,缺口,等级
  • The peanuts they grow are top-notch.他们种的花生是拔尖的。
  • He cut a notch in the stick with a sharp knife.他用利刃在棒上刻了一个凹痕。
3 debut
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
4 tedder
n.(干草)翻晒者,翻晒机
  • Jim Tedder has more. 吉姆?特德将给我们做更多的介绍。 来自互联网
  • Jim Tedder tells us more. 吉姆?泰德给我们带来更详细的报道。 来自互联网
5 trumped
v.(牌戏)出王牌赢(一牌或一墩)( trump的过去分词 );吹号公告,吹号庆祝;吹喇叭;捏造
  • That woman trumped up various baseless charges against him. 那个女人捏造种种毫无根据的罪名指控他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Several of his colleagues trumped up a complaint to get him removed from the job. 他的几位同事诬告他,使他丟掉了工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abeigh
absolute heating effect
accumulator address
acoustoelectric
aircraft wireless control
APPMPE
articular surface
arylhydroxylamine
Aso-wan
baby vamp
backward magnetic tape
beadnell b.
beta-gamma survey meter
bowel disease
calculating the charge
caveperson
cistron (benzer 1957)
clearcreekite
confidentiality key management services
contract high
corrugated hose
creamed chicken and ham soup
cunnilinctuss
decomposition curve
dedicated data
derrick head fitting
digital-camera
dimensional equation
disgorgements
ed-mund
edge of coverage
engineering control of air pollution
extractive netallurgy
fire sb up
fractured hydrocarbon reservoir
Gelidocalamus solidus
general interconnecting network
green-room
had no conception of
harmful impurity
hayel
hentoffs
Heraclitan
horizontaldischarge tube
hydrometer degree
hylobates concolor
idropise
indicated specific heat consumption
inverse circulation
junction pole transposition
Kisubi
krakoff
lay a hand on
least-integral-square error
leonensis
liner rerms
methoxygossypol
mini-stages
motive picture
normalized device coordinates
ONE OUT OF
osteochondrous
Osvaldo
oven-dry weight
perceptio
petiolary
petroleum deposit
pipelined system
position-transducer
posse
practicing license
protein paint
punchless
queynt
reflection interferometer
reflexogenic
run-time binding
Sauveterre-la-Lémance
Scotry
signal mechanic
silicon micromachining
st. pierre
stainable
Stavka
strong component
stufffed animal
T-beam
Taewang-ri
telisa
temlisartan
theobromine
toora
Topografov, Pik
trawling gear
triuncina brunnea
turn ... upside down
unturbaned
video-conference
wear-and-tear
web application manager
xantholith (staurolite)
year planner