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


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We're on the move with the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending March 24, 2018.


It's always a good week when we welcome a new song, and this one is already setting records.


Number 5: Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line "Meant To Be"


Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line are your Top Five newcomers this week, as "Meant To Be" rises two slots to fifth place.


This song comes with a pedigree: It's now in its 16th week atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. That's the longest reign 2 in that chart's history for a song with a lead female vocal 3. Ironically, it was originally released on the contemporary hit radio format 4 … not country.


Number 4: Post Malone Featuring Ty Dolla $ign "Psycho"


Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign back off two slots to fourth place with "Psycho."


Post's next album "Beerbongs & Bentleys" has been a long time coming …and we still don't have a release date. However, he's now offering two different beer bongs on his merchandise page for $20 apiece … so that new album can't be too far off, can it?


Number 3: Bruno Mars & Cardi B "Finesse 5"


Bebe Rexha arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum 6 in Inglewood, California, March 11, 2018.


Bruno Mars and Cardi B take over third place with "Finesse," and Cardi just gave us her unfiltered opinion of the #MeToo movement.


Speaking with Cosmopolitan 7 magazine, Cardi said she doesn't feel the #MeToo and Time's Up movements will have much effect on the hip 8 hop 9 scene. She says sexual favors were expected back when she was trying to break into videos, and if women spoke 10 up they were belittled 11. Cardi also doesn't feel that male producers and directors have learned much from anti-harassment initiatives … they're just scared.


Number 2: Ed Sheeran "Perfect"


Ed Sheeran recovers a slot to second place with "Perfect." Ed's plans to build a chapel 12 on his English estate may be foiled by newts. Ed submitted an application to the Suffolk Coastal 13 District Council, but neighbors worry about the planned structure's impact on the crested 14 newt population. The little amphibians 15 are a protected species.


Number 1: Drake "God's Plan"


Drake heads the hit list for a seventh week with "God's Plan." Last year, author Margaret Atwood suggested that Drake should appear in the TV adaptation of her novel The Handmaid's Tale. On March 18, cast members made their own appeals for Drake to take a cameo role in the dystopian show. Season 2 releases on April 25 on Hulu … without Drake, as far as we know.



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 reign
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
3 vocal
adj.直言不讳的;嗓音的;n.[pl.]声乐节目
  • The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
  • Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。
4 format
n.设计,版式;[计算机]格式,DOS命令:格式化(磁盘),用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据;v.使格式化,设计,安排
  • Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
  • The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。
5 finesse
n.精密技巧,灵巧,手腕
  • It was a disappointing performance which lacked finesse.那场演出缺乏技巧,令人失望。
  • Lillian Hellman's plays are marked by insight and finesse.莉莲.赫尔曼的巨作以富有洞察力和写作技巧著称。
6 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
7 cosmopolitan
adj.世界性的,全世界的,四海为家的,全球的
  • New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
  • She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。
8 hip
n.臀部,髋;屋脊
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
9 hop
n.单脚跳,跳跃;vi.单脚跳,跳跃;着手做某事;vt.跳跃,跃过
  • The children had a competition to see who could hop the fastest.孩子们举行比赛,看谁单足跳跃最快。
  • How long can you hop on your right foot?你用右脚能跳多远?
10 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
11 belittled
使显得微小,轻视,贬低( belittle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements. 她觉得她的丈夫时常贬低她的成就。
  • A poor but honest man is not to be belittled. 穷而诚实的人是不该让人小看的。
12 chapel
n.小教堂,殡仪馆
  • The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
  • She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午,她在小教堂的演出,可以说是登峰造极。
13 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
14 crested
adj.有顶饰的,有纹章的,有冠毛的v.到达山顶(或浪峰)( crest的过去式和过去分词 );到达洪峰,达到顶点
  • a great crested grebe 凤头䴙䴘
  • The stately mansion crested the hill. 庄严的大厦位于山顶。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
15 amphibians
两栖动物( amphibian的名词复数 ); 水陆两用车; 水旱两生植物; 水陆两用飞行器
  • The skin of amphibians is permeable to water. 两栖动物的皮肤是透水的。
  • Two amphibians ferry them out over the sands. 两辆水陆两用车把他们渡过沙滩。
学英语单词
air standard cycle
amygdala ceresorum
anomalo-
asbest cement
assertive evidence
Banach's limit
barely...than...
beams and columns
bidirrectional transducer
bilious constitution
Bouillaud's disease
brush-like
Bulusan Vol.
cannal off let
chaetodon auriga
Chymar
coefficient of diffusion
cohorted
coin-first service
comploration
computing algorithm
DBH-1298
dibudinate
diphenyl-carbinol
dog-hook
durable facility
eight-and-a-half
Elsholtzia souliei
engine room logbook desk
facing cow out
Feininger, Lyonel (Charles Adrian)
fern genus
folder path
fore panel
formal approach
forward characteristic
free gear
frequency-division multiplexing
fuel tank lock
Furano
give sb a lesson
granary weevil
groyning
Hurler syndrome
ignescents
impact tower
import duty risk
inclinometer
interchange field separator
invadent
irregular splitting
La Ferté-Alais
lissamine
loop extender
Lutuli
manual lens
masferrer
Max. mold height
metallogenic mineral
multichannel multiplexing
negotiators
nonabdominal
optical profiletype
plane of cleavage
polish the apple
powder spectrum
problem recognition
provisional regulation
purchase-money obligation
put one's mind to
quaternarian
redulcerate
reflection shield
Rodniki
rubber clay
screedings
sensor device
service-tree (sorbus)
shellworks
Sizewell
slv.
SMA connector
strip coil
striped mullets
swivel joint
tea-stained
teresi
the parquet
theory of recapitulation
trace element
trading and profit and loss statement
transparency velvet
truthlikeness
Tumul
ultracomfortable
unmaidenly
van-drivers
variable injection timing mechanism
watet
white matt paper
Yuhang