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
abrasin oils
adapter set screw
analyzer kit
angle strap
apprentise
as the devil
AVUM
Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him.
bandars
bethumbs
bonfire boys
bonnefoy
burner heat input rate
burner jet
Caledonia County
cantilever roof bar
cavity-embossing rubber die
Clamping speed
color/graphics adapter
crystallographic form
cutting velocity
Daraw
defered assets
Deoxycholyltaurine
design of stairway
devaluation surcharge
drop center wheel
edge coherence
embryogeny
employee report
ex-coupon
falajes
firecrests
fish soluble
Fulk IV
gem mineral
genus stenotuss
grus canadenis
half scale
heel hang
high voltage tube fuse
identification of pheromone
in sb's company
ink jet printers
inorganize
internal friction angle of discontinuity
khipu
Klausner's seroreaction
Kokkilai
left upper extremity
library of program development tool
lifesign
lippman
longitudinal grade
lump-sum method
Malaxis monophyllos
mould base
new issue bond
ninetythrees
nominal (rated) speed
oldhood
oneliners
optical character reader paper
originators
oversystematizes
palmarotation
peltate scale
positive displacement supercharger
private switched network
progressive granulation
propulsion component
quasimilitary
rag day
ring pit
sauncy
selective services
Serinc
settlement with foreign exchange on account
skeletal plaque
south tmeperature zone
starch adipate
synthetics
telephone-circuit data
temporalise
the festival of hebe
theoretical density
theosophist
tonite
topographic unconformity
Turckheim
turret race
unsneezed
upcreep
urban population
user-difined
vertical diagram
watering car
were in service
woodturners
Yangpyeong-gun
zebra mules
zung