经济学人精读节选100篇Forgoing the single life 放弃单身生活
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经济学人精读节选100篇Contradictory though it may seem in the streaming era尽管在流媒体时代看起来很矛盾
【1】TO BILLIE EILISH, things like cassettes and CDs probably seem charmingly retro. Born in 2001, the musician was six years old when Spotify launched; today she is the fourth-most popular artist on the platform. Ms Eilishhas only ever known 21st-century listening habits. And yet she has emerged as an unlikely champion of a time-worn format: the album. She declared that her new record, “Hit Me Hard and Soft”, released in May, was a “cohesive” piece of work, “ideally listened to in its entirety from beginning to end”. No singles were released in advance as amuse-bouchesfor famished fans.
单词解析：cassettes：n.暗盒；盒式磁带；磁带盒；胶片盒； 卡式磁带
例句：For recording or playing cassettes.
录制或播放盒式磁带的。
【3】She is not the only hitmaker emphasising the album rather than its component parts. Ariana Grande advertised “Eternal Sunshine”, released in March, with just one single, stressing that she wanted listeners to “experience the album in full this time”. Dua Lipa’s debut album in 2017 was preceded by six singles; she scaled back for her latest record. And Taylor Swifthas issued four successive sets of new material with no advance singles. Two of these were “surprise releases”, announced just ahead of their arrival, which again emphasises the primacy of the album format.
单词解析：hitmaker：n.<非正式>热门制造者；热门曲制作人；热门曲歌手（同 hit-maker）
例句：The Alejandro hitmaker strode along in shiny black pointed-toe pumps and carried a little black purse.
雷迪嘎嘎脚上踩着一双漆皮黑色高跟鞋，手上拎着一个小小的黑色女士包。
【4】For decades after the birth of recorded music in the 1920s, the single was the only thing that mattered, mostly because it was the only thing there was: early gramophone records could hold just a few minutes of music on each side. As technology improved, playing times increased, and groups such as the Beatlescame to see LPs (“long play”) as statements of ambition. From the mid-1960s onwards, albums became something to be appreciated as complete works of art. In 1988 Princereleased his “Lovesexy” album on CD as one continuous track, with the explicit goal of making it impossible to cherry-pick songs.
单词解析：explicit：adj.明确的；详述的；直言的, 坦率的；一目了然的
例句：The reasons for the decision should be made explicit.
应该直截了当给出决定的理由。
【5】No doubt Ms Eilish and co want to prove their serious musical chops. Pop music is still often regarded as ephemeral, because it relies on catchy tracks that can dominate airwaves and charts. Singles account for around 65% of a hit rock album’s total “consumption” (including streaming as well as physical purchases). For a pop album that figure rises to 85%.
单词解析：chops：v. 切碎；砍；剁碎；劈；(大幅度地)削减，降低；终止；取消；向下猛击n.砍；剁；猪(或羊等)排；劈；掌劈
例句：Do you big me? Zebra chops people.
你大我啊？班马劈友。
【6】This crop of pop stars has discovered that a deluge can be better than a drip-feed. Stars can encourage fans to buy their record on vinyl and stream the album, too. As a result, “The artist and their label partner earn twice,” says Chris Cooke of CMU, a music-industry website. And, by releasing the songs all at once, artists enjoy the kind of chart dominance that sporadic singles do not provide. Ms Eilish currently has three tracks in the Billboard top 20. After the release of “The Tortured Poets Department”, Ms Swift claimed the top 14 spots. Singles are still useful for pop’s aspiring princesses, but not the queens.
单词解析：sporadic：adj.零星的；断断续续的；偶尔发生的；阵发性的；间或出现的
例句：The sound of sporadic shooting could still be heard.
仍能听见零星的枪声。
长难句分析：
1）原文：This crop of pop stars has discovered that a deluge can be better than a drip-feed.
2）解析：
This crop (of pop stars) has discovered | that a deluge can be better [than a]drip-feed.
2）句子语法结构详解：
* discovered 为谓语，采用现在完成时。
* that 为连词，引导宾语从句。
* be 为系动词作谓语。
* good 为形容词作表语。
* drip-feed 开头为祈使句。
* drip-feed 为谓语。
* can 为情态动词。has 为助动词。a 为不定冠词。
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