时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2013年(七月)


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Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending July 27  7月27日Top 5 Countdown榜单歌曲



We’re enjoying the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Magazine Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending July 27, 2013.


French novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once wrote “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” He must have been a countdown fan - that’s just what we face this week.


Our sole movement occurs in fifth place, where Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Ray Dalton recover one slot with “Can’t Hold Us" -  rebounding to number five with their former champ.   Ray Dalton, 22, says he gave up his job as a tennis instructor 2 to become a full-time 3 musician once this song became a hit. 


Holding in fourth place is Imagine Dragons, from Las Vegas, Nevada, with "Radioactive". Their big break involved misfortune for another band.  Three years ago, Train lead singer Pat Monahan fell ill at the Bite Of Las Vegas Festival. Imagine Dragons was called in as a last-minute substitute…and performed before 26,000 people. Things really took off from there for the quartet. 


Miley Cyrus hosts the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Hotel, June 29, 2013 in Miami.


Holding in third place is Miley Cyrus, with "We Can't Stop". This week she had choice words for another young star. Speaking with the London Sun, Miley said fellow singing star Justin Bieber was “stupid” after becoming a tabloid 4 fixture 5 - but also admitted he’s not alone in making public missteps. Miley’s not kidding: she recently topped a parents’ survey of worst celebrity 6 role models.  


Holding for yet another week in second place, it’s Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams: “Get Lucky.”  They threaten to take up permanent residence in second place. The mysterious French duo pops up in the August, 2013 issue of Vogue 7 Magazine. They pose with a high-fashion model, and yes… they’re wearing their robot helmets.


Pharrell Williams, left, and Robin 8 Thicke perform onstage at the BET Awards at the Nokia Theater, June 30, 2013, in Los Angeles.


When a song inspires parody 9 clips online, it’s truly become a hit. Robin Thicke finds himself in that situation, as “Blurred Lines”,  which also features T. I. and Pharrell Williams, holds the Hot 100 title for a sixth week. This song’s notorious video has inspired several parody clips featuring vocals 10 from Muppet Kermit The Frog, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and others.




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 instructor
n.指导者,教员,教练
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
3 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
4 tabloid
adj.轰动性的,庸俗的;n.小报,文摘
  • He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.他口头对小报新闻进行了抨击。
  • He believes that the tabloid press has behaved disgracefully.他认为小报媒体的行为不太光彩。
5 fixture
n.固定设备;预定日期;比赛时间;定期存款
  • Lighting fixture must be installed at once.必须立即安装照明设备。
  • The cordless kettle may now be a fixture in most kitchens.无绳电热水壶现在可能是多数厨房的固定设备。
6 celebrity
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
7 Vogue
n.时髦,时尚;adj.流行的
  • Flowery carpets became the vogue.花卉地毯变成了时髦货。
  • Short hair came back into vogue about ten years ago.大约十年前短发又开始流行起来了。
8 robin
n.知更鸟,红襟鸟
  • The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
  • We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟,知道春天要到了。
9 parody
n.打油诗文,诙谐的改编诗文,拙劣的模仿;v.拙劣模仿,作模仿诗文
  • The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
  • North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿,其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。
10 vocals
(乐曲中的)歌唱部份,声乐部份( vocal的名词复数 )
  • Also look out for soaring vocals on The Right Man. 另外,也可留意一下《意中人》中的那高亢的唱腔。
  • Lazy bass line, lazier drums, lush violins, great piano and incomparable vocals. 懒惰的低音线,较懒惰的鼓,饮小提琴,棒的钢琴和无比的声音。
学英语单词
acoustic ionization
acoustic plate-wave couplers
acute ethmoidal sinusitis
ACVs
ammophilus
anthrophony
aortic sinusal aneurysm
appear before the court
armoried
Assignee of Bill of Lading Acting in Good Faith
automationserver
bahrein i.
baseball clubs
benjamin wests
Bipont
call sth in
coated duplex board with grey back
combined wire
community-center
coonties
costochondral junction
cullom-
current sensitive colour indicator tube
curved stroke
detector-ground coupling
dother
double lacing
drifted off
dry surface ratio of soil
earth free oscillation
exporter associations
fedai, fedayin
flow counter
flutings
foreign nationals
fringelike
general office of the hospital
Genitalis
genus Aegypius
gimbal mount assembly
glanmore
goose plums
gotten ahead
ground bar
hardware-firmware-software tradeoff
Hildebrand rules
Hopefield
hydrological
immeasurate
instruction cycle time
ionospheric waves
katalyst
kettle lake
Kotkino
litter car
long chain hydrocarbon
maum
max. swing angle of steering pitman arm
mcclernan
mesal penellipse
mud cooling tower
mutual intensity
natural rate interest
oblique astigmatism
overbrowing
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
panorpa sonani
parallel slot
pensum
Poa festucoides
port level manager control frame
preserving process
probability random function
propeller advance ratio
recompt
reticular groove
roast me
rocketries
root tuber crops
rotary centrifugal separator
roynish
seismic plane
sextic equation
sinus lateralis
special constable
spinellan(e)
stun gun
talyors
temperature current curve
to run the gauntlet
to take the biscuit
trumpophobia
turn-on snubber inductance
two-stroke gasoline engine
underlies
unsaturated clay
us is
video collection
viipuri (vyborg)
Wirrida, L.
word-by-transfer
ziram