Day11 EnglishPod 127笔记 I Love That Song

Host: Welcome back, music lovers, to ”I Love That Song”! The game show where we test your musical knowledge to the extreme! Let’s get started! Team A... Guess this tune:

Team A: Carrying Your Love With Me by George Straight! The genre is country music!

Host: You are right! one hundred points to team A! Now, for our next cut.

Team B: Thong Song by Sisqo! I believe the genre is R&B?

Host: One hundred big points for team B! For all our viewers the acronym R&B stands for Rhythm and Blues. On that note, DJ, play our next song!

Team B: Superstar by The Carpenters!

Host: And the genre?

Team B: Um... Um... Adult Contemporary?

Host: That’s right! A hundred points! Uh oh! That sound means it’s double or nothing! The songs are more difficult and the points are doubled! Let’s hear our next song!

Team A: Too easy! That song is Kinslayer by the Finnish power metal group, Nightwish!

Host: You are correct! Very impressive team A! And it seems we have a tie! It’s time now for the tie-breaker round! Each team will be played three songs and they must tell us the genre of each song in less than five seconds!

Team A, are you ready?

Team A: Ready!

Host: Let’s hear it!

Team A: Hip Hop, Classical and Gothic metal!

Host: You are right! Team B, the pressure is on, if you get all of them right, we will move on to sudden death. If you miss one, you lose! DJ, Let’s hear it!

Team B: Rap, Disco and... and...

1.acronym [ˈækrənɪm] 

（尤用作名称）首字母缩拼词，首字母缩略词 An acronym is a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase, especially when this is used as a name. An example of an acronym is NATO which is made up of the first letters of the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'.

2.stands for

(某个字母)是…的缩写，代表，表示 If you say that a letter stands for a particular word, you mean that it is an abbreviation for that word.

“FYI” stands for “for your information.”

The sign @ stands for “at.”

What does EU stand for?