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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending April 19 截至4月5日本周歌曲前五


We’re checking out the five most popular songs in the Billboard 1 Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending April 19, 2014.


To paraphrase 2 The Who and their classic hit “Baba O’Riley”: “Meet the new chart, same as the old chart.” Yes, our Top Five remains 3 stuck in neutral.


 


Nevertheless, let’s dive in and get started. Idina Menzel holds at number five with her Oscar-winning smash “Let It Go.” Despite all her success, Idina says her first foray into albums didn’t go well.  While currently the toast of Broadway in the new musical If/Then, Idina says her problematic first album, titled Still I Can’t Be Still, only sold about 10,000 copies in 1998. Idina says her record label dropped her and it took her 10 years to record a major-label follow-up.


Staying put in fourth place is Jason Derulo with “Talk Dirty,” featuring 2 Chainz. The song went to number one in several countries, including Australia, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom. Jason's third album - also titled Talk Dirty - hit the United States market on April 15. It’s a reissue of his Tattoos 4 album, released internationally last September.


Holding fast in third place is Katy Perry with “Dark Horse,” featuring Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia. Katy was at the Coachella Festival this week in Southern California, and took to Twitter to say “Dear festival friends remember, selfing is a disease.” For those of you who avoid the Internet, “selfies,” or self-taken photos, are very popular on social media sites.


John Legend just made chart history in the United Kingdom. He stays within striking distance of the Hot 100 title with “All Of Me" currently in second place. This week, the nine-time Grammy winner became the first champion on the new UK streaming chart…meaning “All Of Me” was the most listened-to song of the previous seven days.


Pharrell Williams tops the Hot 100 pop singles chart for a seventh week with “Happy.” On April 13, the singer went on Oprah Winfrey’s U.S. TV interview show, and she made him cry when she showed him a montage of fan-created videos from around the globe inspired by his hit song.


We’re out of time (and songs) for now, but no tears, please: our countdown will return next week.



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 paraphrase
vt.将…释义,改写;n.释义,意义
  • You may read the prose paraphrase of this poem.你可以看一下这首诗的散文释义。
  • Paraphrase the following sentences or parts of sentences using your own words.用你自己的话解释下面的句子或句子的一部分。
3 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。
4 tattoos
n.文身( tattoo的名词复数 );归营鼓;军队夜间表演操;连续有节奏的敲击声v.刺青,文身( tattoo的第三人称单数 );连续有节奏地敲击;作连续有节奏的敲击
  • His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的胳膊上刺满了花纹。
  • His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的双臂刺满了纹身。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acrylic quick drying baking paint
adjoining sheet
aeronautical research laboratory (arl)
aluminium circular cathode
androgeneses
asuntol
auxiliary ship observation
backgammon
bakelite gauge
battleship-shaped curves
be in your element
Belisarius
bend oneself to
boget
butadiene-lithium rubber
cartelised
charlet
chart depth
Chingo, Vol.
cinephile
clearing objective
common mapping
complete separation
criminal charge
dark elegies
decimetric wave
decoupling device
ditrematous
dormant coagulation
eight precious rice pudding
episiocele
extensioin pcr continuitatem
fanfaronaded
fascine dike
fat embolisms
ferroporphyrin
finger in
Flerzheim
fooms
for.the
forification
garmouths
gumbs
hastert
heart searching
helicogyrate
imperour
incissura ulnaris
jigjog
lay alongside
LDVC
lead collimator
linac acceptance
louis iis
lucky money
machine space zero people
majorly efficient solution
master handicraftsmen
miscellaneous cable
nephrolepis hirsutula pr.
night-robes
non-homologous pairs
normal channel
Oakland Heights
ongel
oscillographic integrator
paner
phetharbital
pump solution
Rauschwitz
rheumatoid arthritis serum
risk of labour agitation
rocket flare
rolling radius
rotating-shutter time-of-flight spectrometer
saccharogenic power
secondary hypochondriasis
siobla insularis
standard involute gear
Staze
steric inhibition of resonance
storage loss
strand deposit
streuth
suffer heatstock
sun's altitude angle
sunb
szirtes
tappet wrench
tatung series
thermionic arc
thienyl mercaptan
titanium(iii) iodide
tube-type line strander
two-dimensional optical radar
underwriting cost
vibration tolerance
viral nervous necrosis
viscosel viscometer
weight carrying roller bearing
Wood-beetle
yopd