时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)


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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Jan. 2


In this week's Top Five Countdown we’re celebrating the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending January 2, 2016.


The final countdown of 2015 yields no new music…just a little shuffling 2. We start out in fifth place, where Justin Bieber may be in trouble again.


Bieber slips a slot 3 to fifth place with his former champion single “What Do You Mean?” Bieber’s been aggressively promoting his Purpose album…maybe a little too aggressively. Officials in San Francisco are demanding that his team clean up advertising 4 graffiti that was spray-painted on sidewalks. Purpose came out on November 13… and they want the offending material removed quickly.


Meanwhile, over in the United Kingdom, things are going a little better for the pop singer.


Bieber replaces himself at number four, as “Love Yourself” rises a slot. He just lost the race to the Christmas number one position in the U.K., as the National Health Service Choir 5 took the pole position with “A Bridge Over You.” Justin had urged his fans to support the Choir, and later posted a congratulatory tweet.


Drake remains 6 stuck in third place with “Hotline Bling.” Last week the singer enjoyed an online reunion with an old friend, posting an Instagram photo of himself and actress Andrea Lewis. More than a decade ago, their characters were romantically involved in the Canadian teen TV drama "Degrassi: The Next Generation."


Justin Bieber remains in the runner-up slot with “Sorry.” After spending Christmas in Canada with his family, he jetted off to the Caribbean. Accompanying him is his father Jeremy, his siblings 7, and his friend, model Hailey Baldwin. The Inquisitr web site reports that they’re believed to be in the Dominican Republic.


And, Adele had a very Merry Christmas…and a very profitable 8 one.


Adele rules the Hot 100 pop singles list for an eighth week with “Hello.” Her number one album 25 has now sold more than 7.1 million copies in the United States alone. It’s the first album to sell more than one million copies in three different weeks since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.


Can Adele keep up her momentum 9 in the new year? Join us in seven days and we’ll find out together!



1 billboard
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。
2 shuffling
n.(口)位置,职位,狭长孔,狭槽
  • Put a coin in the slot.将硬币放入投币口。
  • He's been given a regular ten-minute slot on the radio.电台定期给他十分钟的节目广播时间。
3 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
4 choir
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱
  • The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
  • The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
5 remains
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。
6 siblings
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
7 profitable
adj.有益的,能带来利益的,有利可图的
  • That business became profitable last year.那项生意去年变得很赚钱。
  • The convention business is very profitable for the hotel industry.承办会议业务能给旅馆业带来很高的利润。
8 momentum
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
学英语单词
achluphobia
airborne telemetering receiving station
antievasion
ash shabb
bird grass
blow-on
brakan
bunga bunga
candle-snuffer
capital
carrying capacity of receiving departure track
Cartaxo
casemaker
classical picture
common brant goose
complexed cavity technique
continuous dehydration of fuel
current mode logic
deaerated
diesel motor regulator
discapacitated
discovery sampling
discrepancy-analysis
disinsection
disjunctive
easy bilge
eftpos
enzyme inhibiting interaction
errett
evaluative criteria
exercise on the map
facials
federal islamic republic of the comoross
Fontainebleau
general purpose manipulator
generalized p values
gold-bearings
greaseburger
hadithah
hevva cakes
Hewlett-Packard interface bus
household refrigerator
ice bridge
inverted wavelet
jet tv
JTT
keyed tiller
lapping fluid
let's do this
low-speed storage
manooses
maritime mobile satellite band
mass dispersion
Mbon
methylmercury nitrile
migratory species
multiple-address instruction
needlessly
no holds barred
nozzle divergence loss factor
object code listing
oozings
outbalance
oxyblepsia
pallet
panduriform leaf
papodum
Par.
part-object
Pasado, C.
petitsikapau l.
phenylcinchoninic acid
pingping
polymyarity
poverance
preproduction approval
Psyquil
relieve pain
rotary guillotine cutter
Saccharum officinarum L.
sail plane
scraping machine
screw swinging mechanism
sebastianis
slim pickings
snapdragon
sneesh
sohyoes
static photographic resolution
structural geomorphology
take the responsibility upon oneself
telluromercaptan
tetraphenoxy-silicane
training plan
trypochete
tuyere connection
underground piping
Van Yen
vedrenne
vegetative cell
ventricular asynchronous pacing
vertical ionization gradient