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Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending November 23


We’re covering the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Magazine Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending November 23, 2013.


Last week’s third-place debut 2 of Eminem and Rihanna’s “The Monster” must have exhausted 3 the rest of the songs, because they take a little rest this week.


Avicii starts us off today, as “Wake Me Up!” goes comatose 4 in fifth place. If the song’s not budging 5, the artist himself is: he has four Australian dates planned for late January, with Germany and the United Kingdom following in February.


Holding tight in fourth place is Katy Perry with her former number one hit “Roar.” Katy and the rest of the pop singing posse rule Twitter.


Right now, Katy is the most popular person on Twitter, with 47.3 million followers 6. Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga are second and third, respectively. The web site Twitaholic has pop singers owning seven of the Top 10 Twitter accounts, with a total of 266 million followers.


Slipping a slot to third place is Miley Cyrus with "Wrecking 7 Ball".  Miley says yes - that cigarette was exactly what you thought it was. On November 10, she appeared to smoke a marijuana joint 8 onstage at the MTV European Music Awards in Amsterdam. As it turns out, our eyes didn’t deceive us. Appearing on Capital FM in the UK, Miley says she thought it would be fun to pull a joint out of her handbag and smoke it - and nobody knew about the stunt 9 before it happened.


Last week’s Hot Shot Debut song is this week’s big mover: “The Monster” from Eminem and Rihanna jumps a notch 10 to second place. Back in 2010, they spent seven weeks atop the Hot 100 chart with “Love The Way You Lie.” It remains 11 Eminem’s best-selling single.


Speaking of seven-week champs, Lorde is still number one with “Royals.” The 17-year-old New Zealander just signed a music publishing deal reportedly worth a cool $2.5 million.


Can Lorde fight off Eminem’s challenge for chart dominance? We’ll find out next week.




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.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
adj.昏睡的,昏迷不醒的
  • Those in extreme fear can be put into a comatose type state.那些极端恐惧的人可能会被安放进一种昏迷状态。
  • The doctors revived the comatose man.这个医生使这个昏睡的苏醒了。
v.(使)稍微移动( budge的现在分词 );(使)改变主意,(使)让步
  • Give it up, plumber. She's not budging. 别费劲了,水管工。她不会改变主意的。 来自互联网
  • I wondered how Albert who showed no intention of budging, felt about Leopold's desertion. 对于从未有迁徙打算的艾伯特来说,我不知道它会怎样看待利奥波德这样弃它而去呢。 来自互联网
追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件
  • the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
  • The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。
破坏
  • He teed off on his son for wrecking the car. 他严厉训斥他儿子毁坏了汽车。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Instead of wrecking the valley, the waters are put to use making electricity. 现在河水不但不在流域内肆疟,反而被人们用来生产电力。 来自辞典例句
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
n.惊人表演,绝技,特技;vt.阻碍...发育,妨碍...生长
  • Lack of the right food may stunt growth.缺乏适当的食物会阻碍发育。
  • Right up there is where the big stunt is taking place.那边将会有惊人的表演。
n.(V字形)槽口,缺口,等级
  • The peanuts they grow are top-notch.他们种的花生是拔尖的。
  • He cut a notch in the stick with a sharp knife.他用利刃在棒上刻了一个凹痕。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
a surfboard
AACPA
AC power cord
administrative order
airborne attack
anthologist
Arraias, R.
awake state
bounced check
breezelessness
British New Guinea
cabinet-type switch
campaign of truth
campylotes altissimus
car body tilting device
center-fire
central referencing environment table
centure
Cimex pipistrella
circular nomogram
Cissus discolor
closed flash point
combustible materials
cross-fire radiography
cryolithology
Darken equation
draft-bar
electric plating film disk
enterprise-oriented
Escherichia aurescens
excusedly
fluid dynamic admittance
fragilize
frame house
gas carbonizing method
general inspection on commodity prices
generating train
genus Cephalopterus
geomorphic equilibrium
ghost-hunting
harm a hair on sb's head
heating-up time
helminthiasis elastica
HNDT (holographic nondestructive testing)
Hrubieszow
humaneness
huygenian ocular
ISOST
jiron
lobule paramedian
local line selective call telephone
lymphoid stem cells
manufacturer lot number
media jukebox
melocol
mixed capacity
momentaneousness
nightdreaming
no defect
nonene
Nyakakiri
omosudis lowii
participialized
phasein
pontoon bridges
portal gantry
praelectors
prated
preMuslim
pseudaulacaspis takahashii
racing boats
reimplements
revenue model
rineloricarias
saberwing
safeti
Sannai
sea-stone
security violation
semifriend
set girth
shopwelded
short-circuited rotor bar
sketch design
small stature form of stock
smart personal objects technology
sprenger
still-missing
strettoes
strung-up
sun-worships
superligh frequency ballast
tapered waveguide
the nouveau riche
theca folliculi interna
transient nephrotic syndrome
trustee investments
ultrashort
uncommit
volumetric displacement meter
wakey, wakey
write winding