时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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Marshall Grant from Johnny Cash's band, the Tennessee Two, has died. He was the bass 1 player in the band, playing here on the left from 1954 until 1980. Marshall Grant was in Arkansas for a Johnny Cash Festival when he suffered an aneurysm and stroke. He was 83 years old. The trio were known for their boom-chicka-boom beat. Marshall Grant was the last surviving member of the band. 


A new music video has been released by Bob Marley & The Wailers. It features in a new campaign to raise money for the famine in the Horn of Africa. It's called “I'm Gonna Be Your Friend”.


"I'll be by your side."


So far, more than 150 celebrities 2 have given their support to the social media campaign. They include U2, Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. They are all using Facebook and Twitter to urge fans to donate.


And Michael Jackson's children have donated several of his artworks to a children's hospital in Los Angeles. Prince, Paris and Prince Michael have presented 10 pieces by the King of Pop at a special ceremony. The works include sketches 3 and a signed portrait. Michael Jackson died two years ago, aged 4 50.



1 bass
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴
  • He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
  • The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
2 celebrities
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
3 sketches
n.草图( sketch的名词复数 );素描;速写;梗概
  • The artist is making sketches for his next painting. 画家正为他的下一幅作品画素描。
  • You have to admit that these sketches are true to life. 你得承认这些素描很逼真。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 aged
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
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Acacia xanthophloea
active laser tracking system
advisory teachers
aerated stabilization pond
akikoes
al-qadir
at the port
B roads
bad count
bell stage
buffer bar
callionymus curvicornis
canonicalised
capacitive attenuator
cheese and meat loaf
chronic exposure
compatible polymer
compulsory execution
constant strain criterion
continuous creation theory
cremoninis
current processor status
cuzzer
deposit natural gas
diamber
dreamiest
eight-month-olds
electrical fan
electron-beam scanning system
elevator boys
first item list
flameproofing
floor exercise
fore stomach
formatted text
full wave-band receiver
gialanella
high tension bus bar
hobelar
hollow corporation
human-factors engineering
humata trifoliata cavan
ikolo
in ... hair
international electric unit
iron prop
Konbyin
Kuwait City
Kūh-i-Mand
listily
literary tradition
manna insect
mineragraphy
minodronate
multivalued mapping
n.d.c
nonobligatory
outside vapor deposition process deposition rate
pairwise uncorrelated
pashko
pathological set
Peltier's cross
Pend Oreille County
permissioned
Pethidie-Intermediate-A
planer tree
ponded basin
principles of cartographic representation
procumbens
pulver
quasilinear characteristics
questuaries
queue equipment
reheat combustor
rigid check of switch blades
rouge plant
Saravia
saumarez
Schimpfwort
self-balancing hot wire anemometer
septicaemic colibacillosis
soa
sort input file control block
spark source mass spectrometer
spinifolius
stern-droop
sympathetic saliva
tare bottle
text function
three-dimensional lattice
tigella
transferdecoration
trichlorocamphane
triple diagonal matrix
TS
unit banking
US/LS
water purification
water resistant coating
weight spectrum
western tamarack
White Rock