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
a doring
acting crowd
an acute angle
angled hole
annus
antagonym
antiparliamentarian
basswood
battleship curves
beauverician
bettinardi
Biography of Medical Figures
black roller
booleanise
boundary-layer control
british harilla
buut
ceiling lamp
character-increment adjustment
Charterers pay dues
chloromalic acid
cingles
circuit switching delay
clematis patens morr.et decne
concatenating
condensed instruction desk
consistorial
contact sound filter
continuing-ed
corner resolution
crystal projection
cut a wide swath
cyclic plastic deformation
daily meeting
dnica
doucine
drone out
enicospilus pseudoconspersae
Entz booster
eumc
fission-product decay heat
foramina nutricium
girays
groiff
gross machine-hours
harriet beecher stowes
haussman
havoline
head and neck
high frequency shale shaker
hypothesis confirmation bias
identical twelvemonth period
klay
lateral enamel strand
lenient disposal of a criminal
lifefull
machine check summary counter
methylations
micro-ammeter
moist-heat sterilization
moochary
mutual will
nitro-aereous
noncompositional
OBSY
orthogonal ket
partitioned emulation programming
party animals
Pensky-martens closed tester
phenylsulfamide
philagra fusiformis
polydispersive
polypeptide
precision teaching
protection zoning
pruritus genitalium
pseudo-resistance polarization
reserve for bad debts
Rotten Row
Royal Albert Hall
safflower oils
saroses
semi-flexible chain polymer
server, network
set a hen
Shōdo-jima
sonnil
square shank bolt
squeeziest
stone curlew
system start up
Talfan
telescope arm
Torulopsis spherica
trass mortar
Turtle Creek
twin-plate clutch
Uchita
UMCM
unification of maritime documents
vertical separator
wellhead metering system