时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(十二月)


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Variety of New Music Collections Released for Holidays


Every holiday season brings the release of new music collections and 2013 is not different. 


“A Mary Christmas,” is Mary J. Blige’s first holiday release and home to a dozen pop standards, including a jazzy version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1.” But  Blige doesn’t just scat and swing her way through this collection of holiday classics. There is also some smooth singing on a duet with Barbra Streisand on “When You  Wish Upon A Star,” featuring trumpeter Chris Botti.


Jewel’s first holiday album, “Joy,” came out in 1999 and has sold over a million copies. She says her new one, “Let It Snow,” has the same spirit as the first.  There are two original songs on the new collection, with the covers including “Silver Bells,” and “Sleigh Ride.” There’s a lilting waltz or two, and Vince Gill  adds his electric guitar to a country-rock take on “White Christmas.” The title track finds Jewel rocking a bit more than you might expect.


Johnny Mathis is back with his first holiday collection in years -- it’s called “Sending You A Little Christmas.”  The 78-year old crooner sings with a number of  special guests on this one, including Susan Boyle, Billy Joel, and Gloria Estefan. His song with pianist Jim Brickman, “Sending You A Little Christmas” is a record  breaker of sorts -- it’s Mathis’s 50th song to make it on to the Billboard 2 AC chart. Only five other artists have hit that mark -- Elton John, Barbra Streisand, Neil  Diamond, Elvis, and Barry Manilow.


Kelly Clarkson’s “Wrapped in Red” has a couple of originals mixed in with holiday favorites like “Blue Christmas,” “Run Run Rudolph” and “Please Come Home for  Christmas.” There’s also a duet with country star Ronnie Dunn on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” But the highlight is the closing track, “Silent Night.” Joining  Clarkson is her mother-in-law Reba McEntire along with Trisha Yearwood, and the trio ends the tune 3 singing the last verse “a capella.”




n.驯鹿
  • The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。
  • The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。
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。
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
学英语单词
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accompassing
Achnatherum caragana
advanced vertical
air distribution
alternating pressure
ancient poems
anterolateral fontanelle
astroballistics
automatic decision making
baccharine
be compromised by
bear malice against
bilateral descents
bingham's distribution
biosocial facilitation
brelogue
brucellergin test
bulk storage memory
busra (bozrah)
called by
caricoides
Cast not out the foul water till you bring in the clean.
chained libraries
civic leaders
clothes dryer
come to sb's rescue
cradle housing
crucible holder
daphnes
de Rohan's method
diaphragm strain gauge
DVD drive
dynamic bound
extensor tendon injury of finger
faggotless
fatty infiltration of liver
feet (ft)
female parents
field ohmic loss
fine-wire screen
flocculent deposit
floridianas
foothold buying
fore back spring
FOWS
frictional torque
future capacity
halkyn
happens on
heading driver
homomorphic nuclei
Indigofera muliensis
integral norm
jozic
Kronburg
Lezgin
liner spacer
load-free sepeed
locally compact group
location address
loss of right of recourse
Manillas
measuring deck
Neighbornode
nuclear models
on remand
optical fiber subscriber networks
Pahāsu
paradisefishes
penal psychopathology
pentosalen
physyk
planned figure
plutonium-and power reactor
pneumo-pericardial
Pomphorhynchus
precavas
quantity of earth work
racial anthropology
radices picrorrhizae
Ratic
retirades
safety eyewear
Sant'Arsenio
satou y?jo (japan)
Seattle Slew
self-organisation
sphyranura osleri
steel-clad brick
stinking root rot
sulci
sulfur(element)
Surdulica
tablespoonsful
thear
under screen of
vena cephalica accessorias
veterean
video signal processing circuit
wanks off
watch your mouth