时间:2018-11-29 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)


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Country Music Thrives in 2012



Jason Aldean released his fifth studio album in 2012. “Night Train” was recently certified 1 platinum 2 for shipments of one million copies and ranks at Number Nine on “Billboard” Magazine’s year-end Country Albums chart. Jason also appears on the Top 10 Country Albums list at Number Six with his 2011 album, “My Kinda Party.”


Taylor Swift lands on many year-end charts, thanks to the huge crossover success of her latest album, “Red.” “Red” is the Number One Country album of 2012 and ranks at Number Two on the “Billboard” 200 year-end list. The album sold 1.2 million copies its first week of release and ends the year with total sales of more than 2.3 million units. Taylor is the Number One Country Artist of 2012, the Number Three Artist in all genres 3 and the Number 10 Hot 100 Artist.


“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” was the lead single from Taylor Swift’s “Red” album. The track spent nine weeks at Number One on the Top Country Songs chart, which set a record for the longest run at the top of that list by a female solo artist. The Grammy-nominated hit sold 623,000 digital copies its first week of release, setting records for the biggest digital sales week ever by a female artist and highest debut 4 by a female Country artist in the 21-year history of the all-genre Hot 100 chart.


Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw had the Number One Country tour of 2012. Their 23 “Brothers of the Sun” stadium concerts brought in more than $96.4 million. Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Rascal 5 Flatts also placed in the year’s overall Top 25 tours.


During the past year, Country fans mourned the death of a number of artists. Among them were Country legends Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Kitty Wells.


Country music’s other big news stories in 2012 included George Jones’ and George Strait’s announcement that they’ll be retiring from the road after performing Farewell Tours in 2013. Shania Twain and Tim McGraw and his wife Faith Hill launched their much-anticipated Las Vegas residencies. Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Connie Smith and Garth Brooks 6 earned induction 7 into the Country Music Hall of Fame. And, Keith Urban and Darius Rucker became the newest members of Nashville’s famed Grand Ole Opry. 


Speaking of the Opry, many acting 8 stars from ABC’s new television drama “Nashville” made their debut on Music City’s famous stage in 2012. They included Hayden Panettiere, Connie Britton and Charles Esten.


Carrie Underwood’s international appeal grew in 2012 with the release of her million-selling album, “Blown Away.” In March, she’ll return to the United Kingdom to perform for the second time in less than a year. Carrie will join Tim McGraw, Vince Gill, LeAnn Rimes, and others at “C2C: Country to Country,” the first-ever two-day Country music festival at London’s O2 Arena 9.


By all indications, 2013 will be another exciting year for Country fans. Tim McGraw, The Band Perry, Faith Hill and George Strait are among the Country stars with new albums slated 10 for release. And, major tours have already been announced by Miranda Lambert, Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan, Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean and Keith Urban.


The Number One Country single of 2012 is a song that didn’t reach the top of the weekly popularity chart. But, Josh Turner's “Time Is Love” spent a total of 39 weeks on the Top Country Songs list making it the most-played radio hit of the year. 




1 certified
a.经证明合格的;具有证明文件的
  • Doctors certified him as insane. 医生证明他精神失常。
  • The planes were certified airworthy. 飞机被证明适于航行。
2 platinum
n.白金
  • I'll give her a platinum ring.我打算送给她一枚白金戒指。
  • Platinum exceeds gold in value.白金的价值高于黄金。
3 genres
(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格( genre的名词复数 )
  • Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
  • But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆,古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
4 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。
5 rascal
n.流氓;不诚实的人
  • If he had done otherwise,I should have thought him a rascal.如果他不这样做,我就认为他是个恶棍。
  • The rascal was frightened into holding his tongue.这坏蛋吓得不敢往下说了。
6 brooks
n.小溪( brook的名词复数 )
  • Brooks gave the business when Haas caught him with his watch. 哈斯抓到偷他的手表的布鲁克斯时,狠狠地揍了他一顿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Ade and Brooks exchanged blows yesterday and they were severely punished today. 艾德和布鲁克斯昨天打起来了,今天他们受到严厉的惩罚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 induction
n.感应,感应现象
  • His induction as a teacher was a turning point in his life.他就任教师工作是他一生的转折点。
  • The magnetic signals are sensed by induction coils.磁信号由感应线圈所检测。
8 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
9 arena
n.竞技场,运动场所;竞争场所,舞台
  • She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
  • He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。
10 slated
用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
  • Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
学英语单词
abrasive roll rice polishing macing
addicted
aleuronate
algolagnic
ammonolysis reaction
angiolymphatic
appreciation
atticsful
Bactrian camels
Bellis perennis
bill murray
bismutosmaltineb (bismutosmatite)
Bobandana
Carrowkeel
chasing behavior
chonglou
cock body
coded extension character
constitution day
coverage interest arbitrage
cowpea aphid
descriptive lexicology
diameter runout
direct current heating
double-platform
drinking water vendor
dynamic duty
elbow scissors
emergency forces
encaustics
environmental consequences
ethylene thiourea
fileout
flanchard
flux-cored welding
forfair
freescan
gallager codes
general subroutine
giggle stick
grandniece
gunroom
hematopathological
hemisystole
herringbone tooth (double helical tooth)
homosteroids
Hypocomatina
idle air bleed
ifa
intramedullary nail fixation instruments set
keep to themselves
kirpal
lamb's quarters
LeukotrieneE
Manol, R.
mercedesbenz
metalammonia
nayab
norm-enforcements
opium eater
outflew
paged memories
paracentesis cordis
Pareto law of income distribution
pineal bodies
pitter patter
pod dehiscence
postplenic
Punta del Este
push-button switch
quickopener
religionaries
remote gain amplifier
remote-control switching system
reother
rury
sector gear bearing
sex show
shaping property
sidhes
sisters-german
smelt up
sprayed-metal bonding
St-Rome-de-Cernon
star jellies
steel sheet edge folded
stick knocker
template milling
text angle
thiazepines
Tikhvinskiy Rayon
tootin
triplex chain block
uteroplacental
venture-backeds
versene-9
vertical centering alignment
walking out of mesh
water yield from snow
white-collar
wiping
yingjiangite (phosphurany)