肯德里克拉马尔获提名格莱美奖

Kendrick Lamar Leads Grammy Nominations¹ 肯德里克拉马尔获提名格莱美奖

Kendrick Lamar has had a good week. The hip-hop artist led the music industry in nominations for its most important awards, the Grammys. The Recording² Academy honored him with 11 nominations, including album of the year for “To Pimp a Butterfly.” His song “Alright” was also nominated for song of the year.

Taylor Swift had a good week, too. She is up for seven 2016 Grammys. Her album “1989” will compete against Lamar’s for album of the year. Her hit “Blank Space” was nominated for song of the year.

Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are also nominated together for two Grammys. The musicians collaborated⁴ on the song “Bad Blood.” For that effort they could share Grammys for best pop group/duo performance and best music video.

R&B star The Weeknd also received seven Grammy nominations. His “Beauty Behind the Madness” is up for album of the year. The other nominees⁵ are “Sound and Color” by the rock band Alabama Shakes and country singer Chris Stapleton’s “Traveller.”

Five nominees are up for the much-sought Grammy for best new artist. They are Tori Kelly, Sam Hunt, Courtney Barnett, James Bay and Meghan Trainor.

The Recording Academy will present the awards at a ceremony in Los Angeles, California on February 15.

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pimp - v. to get customers for prostitutes

blank - adj. without any writing, marks, or pictures

collaborate³ - v. to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something

1 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

2 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

3 collaborate   

vi.协作，合作；协调

参考例句：

• The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
• I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。

4 collaborated   

合作( collaborate的过去式和过去分词 )； 勾结叛国

参考例句：

• We have collaborated on many projects over the years. 这些年来我们合作搞了许多项目。
• We have collaborated closely with the university on this project. 我们与大学在这个专案上紧密合作。

5 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网