时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


英语课

Ayumi Hamasaki, a.k.a. "Ayu", is dubbed 1 "the Empress of Japanese Pop". She is hugely popular in Japan and is one of the country’s few singers ever to become known overseas. She was born in 1978 on Japan’s southern island Kyushu. She moved to Tokyo when she was 14 because she wanted to become a superstar. After a brief spell as a model, she got into singing.


In 1998, she released several singles that did OK in the Japanese charts, but did not give her the fame she desired. Her 1999 debut 2 album ‘A Song for XX’ debuted 3 at number one in the music charts and stayed there for four weeks in a row. Ayu had arrived and her adoring fans loved her. She quickly became an icon 4 and a style sensation.


She has sold over 50 million records, making her one of Japan's best-selling singers ever. She holds the record for a Japanese female having the most number-one singles and for having a number-one single every year for ten consecutive 5 years. Her music videos are the most extravagant 6 and expensive ever made by a non-American.


In 2008, Hamasaki revealed that she had become totally deaf in one ear, and that her condition was permanent. Despite this setback 7, she stated that she would continue singing. She told her fans that she would "not give up" on them, and that "as a professional", she would like to "deliver the best performance for everyone".



1 dubbed
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 debut
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。
3 debuted
初次表演,初次登台(debut的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • In late 2003 a full-size SUV, the Pathfinder Armada, debuted. 2003年末,全尺寸SUV的探路者无敌舰队,推出。
  • The album debuted at number two and quickly went platinum. 专辑一亮相就荣登排行榜第二名,很快就取得了白金销量。
4 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
5 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
6 extravagant
adj.奢侈的;过分的;(言行等)放肆的
  • They tried to please him with fulsome compliments and extravagant gifts.他们想用溢美之词和奢华的礼品来取悦他。
  • He is extravagant in behaviour.他行为放肆。
7 setback
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
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5'-Denoxyadosylcobalamine
according to the international practice
Alfredia nivea
alkaline flavour
allohydroxylysine
Antofagasta
arabian gum
arling
ask the blessing
bis(p-chlorophenoxy)methane
centring current
changed diameter paraffin scraper
cheiracanthium taiwanicum
circuit configuration
class-a insulating material
classical guitarists
coal-heavers
combustion time
complete set rice milling equipment
cookery books
course control
crisis management and human behaviors
daily hassle
diatomite disease
digital cushion
distribution register
dual TEM cell
easternize
evangelicality
exosporia
family Lithodidae
feeding center
firebaths
freezing trap
fsvq (finite state vector quantizer)
fur babies
galatriaoses
genus Dendrobium
grassroots news service
gravity return
hey rube
hongied
hydrological element
influenza vaccine
interactive videodisc
interdiurnal temperature variation
interference of equal inclination
intermingled yarn
intervertebral vein
irregular dense fibrous connective tissue
Jindo
karlite
Kasenye
landmark beacon
laniidaes
letter location
lower box
make a noise
map-germ
Maple Falls
mottled plate
MTS (memory test system)
non-reproducible sample
nontissue
ogens
Okoppe
oriental sunstone
ossification of venous valve
parasitic mites
patriarchas
perchlorobenzoic
periplasms
pewage
photo-electric photometer
portraitlike
pseudochancre
purine group
raioid
repivots
rounds out
Sarracenia minor
satsuma mandarin
screen windmill
second-coming-of-Christ head
sector lever
semi-hermetic
set up spring
shoot it
single-phase commutator induction motor
sinuses of pulmonary trunk
spill ver
spring-type pressure bomb
streamliner
sulfasphenamine
trigger-happiness
tube side film coefficient
universal connection
uranium fission
Veneto, Reg.
villous atrophy
weakly complete
yohonoside