时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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Marshall Grant from Johnny Cash's band, the Tennessee Two, has died. He was the bass 1 player in the band, playing here on the left from 1954 until 1980. Marshall Grant was in Arkansas for a Johnny Cash Festival when he suffered an aneurysm and stroke. He was 83 years old. The trio were known for their boom-chicka-boom beat. Marshall Grant was the last surviving member of the band. 


A new music video has been released by Bob Marley & The Wailers. It features in a new campaign to raise money for the famine in the Horn of Africa. It's called “I'm Gonna Be Your Friend”.


"I'll be by your side."


So far, more than 150 celebrities 2 have given their support to the social media campaign. They include U2, Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. They are all using Facebook and Twitter to urge fans to donate.


And Michael Jackson's children have donated several of his artworks to a children's hospital in Los Angeles. Prince, Paris and Prince Michael have presented 10 pieces by the King of Pop at a special ceremony. The works include sketches 3 and a signed portrait. Michael Jackson died two years ago, aged 4 50.



1 bass
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴
  • He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
  • The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
2 celebrities
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
3 sketches
n.草图( sketch的名词复数 );素描;速写;梗概
  • The artist is making sketches for his next painting. 画家正为他的下一幅作品画素描。
  • You have to admit that these sketches are true to life. 你得承认这些素描很逼真。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 aged
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
学英语单词
-zoan
abdominocardiac reflex
agrologically
all stage
ape shit
apologistas
Asian bearcat
automatic telegraphy
bacteriocide
bat shit
bear's -paw
bi-unial
bimensal
blow-lamp
bodements
capnometer
cardinal classes
chromatic value
chumps
cognitive vulnerability to depression
Colocasia esculenta Schott
company officer
Cottian Alps (Cottiennes, Alpes)
crisis-intervention
cusecs
dalmatics
deck-loaded
efficiency of preservation
erichthus larva
ethnomaniac
exarch xylem
fictitious sale
filaria sanguinolenta
flakin'
gargled
gear friction
genus cicutas
ghostfishes
glass delay line memory
global optimization structure
ground based navigation aid
headless set-screw
hoist overspeed device
hot-metal bottle
idiologism
indebtedly
irregular nystagmus
kicking down
KMP
koningsplein
l/c ratio
leap on to the bandwagon
Loran system
LtHo
Lycianthes subtruncata
Mammoth event
Mandaue
Margyricarpus
mean probit difference
melanotrichia linguae
metal extrinsic semiconductor field effect transistor
minimum deflection angle
monitoring direction
muddy-brown
nickel manganese cast steel
night-sight
o.s
Opercularia
OPPC
Permastril
prefectural
preventer shroud
protocele
re-enters
residence time distribution density function
right wheel well
rotating armature relay
satellite derived sea surface temperature
searing iron
Segen Wenz
Serradilla del Arroyo
SHG (second-harmonic generation)
ship breaker
stitch-and-seam welding
stochastic landscape model
target canker
tebowing
telemetres
TFEL
thamar
the better part
the oak
transit receipt
two-pen recorder
unplated
vivificate
water charger
wet hair
whirle
Xuan Zang
Zaharoff, Sir Basil