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
Aconitum sessiliflorum
Adst. feb.
Alangium kurzii
Alcabideche
armenian apostolic orthodox churches
art-sciences
audiated
bobby soxer
bright-drawn steel
Bronnitsy
bump density
Cagraray I.
cationic auxiliary
chalazal
characteristic data of computer
chloro-cuprite
chromatographic trace
commercial occupations
contradictorious
coupling changement
cross pipe
de Toni-Fanconi syndrome
Dirty Harry
dolichos lablabs
dredger's floater
endogenous income hypothesis
entendant
even Stephens
Filaria peritonei hominis
firestones
firm pulse
forced water circulation
full-prices
fully-associative buffer storage
Galloway, Mt.
GDP-FUC
Geelvink Bay
gracilaria bursa-pastoris
hebdomads
highheartedness
Hildebrandia
history of astronomy
infrared cameras
isotope farming
job creator
Kafulafuta
kakarak
kearseys
kierstin
leader writer
leendert
long-term protfolio equilibrium
low-temperature epitaxy
metal-shielded wire
methyl-carbithionic acid
misfittings
nacaratonic
nairomycin
nemertid
nine hundred
nkunda
nonmobile
operations control center
Oued Fodda, Barrage de l'
overshoot(ing)
pedobear
perforating press
permanent virtual memory
phase-amplitude indicator
Pimexone
plastometry
porg
pre-births
pretent
product line manager
rivivol
rolling stop
serous atrophy
soybean cyst nematode
spline fit
St-Guillaume, Mt.
Stokes lines
straightly travelling s/r machine
supply, power
syncategoreme
to give up the ghost
topographic analytical program
Torinal
trade waste
trichotillomanias
twme
universal calibration
Unlevered Beta
unrespect
verbena concrete
voluptuate
Weipa
well appointed
wholesales
yards sale
yellowdog