VOA慢速英语:Critics Picks: The Top Music of 2011

fill with (使)充〔挤〕满
例句：His eyes filled with tears as he looked lovingly at her.
他深情地望着她, 眼里充满了泪水。

2. The Ormes Society is an organization dedicated to promoting black women as creators, artists and writers, as consumers of sequential art and comics and the organization was named after Jackie Ormes, who was the first African American female cartoonist.

dedicate to献(身)于…; 把(时间、精力等)用于…
例句：He dedicated his life to the cause of education.
他献身于教育事业。
name after以…的名字起名
例句：The machine is named after its inventor.
这台机器是以其发明者的名字命名的。

3. I was just amazed that there was this black woman in the forties and fifties, basically going against the trend; creating comics about black women as they loved and how they actually lived, and how they actually looked, which is completely different from what other creators were doing at the time.

go against违背, 作对
例句：That'll go against the traffic regulations.
那要违反交通规则的。

4. Black cartoonists don’t have to wait for Marvel and DC to come to them.

wait for等待, 等候
例句：I've been waiting for the bus for half an hour.
我等车已等了半个小时了。

5. This week we are taking a look … and a listen … to the music that came out during two thousand eleven.

come out出版; 发表
例句：That year they came out with another article.
那一年他们又发表了一篇文章。

6. Come along with us has our two thousand eleven musical tour.

come along出现, 发生
例句：He came along with some friends.
他和几个朋友一同来。

7. Spin magazine compares the song to the Bible story in which the ancient Israelites destroy the walls of Jericho by blowing their trumpets.

compare to把…比作, 喻为; 与…相比
例句：Shakespeare compared the world to a stage.
莎士比亚把世界比作舞台。

8. The animal leans close to the body and then pushes it off a cliff.

push off把(某人或某物)推开
例句：Did she fall off the cliff by accident, or was she pushed off?
她是偶然掉下悬崖还是被人推下去的?

9. The list is based on tickets sales.

base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：Action should be based on solid facts.
行动应有确凿的事实为依据。

10. Fifty of his shows were sold out.

sell out脱销, 卖掉
例句：All the tickets for the last performance have sold out already.
最近一场演出的票已经全部卖光。