时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


TV Shows Being Renewed and Cancelled


Mo: I have some bad news: Your favorite TV show has been cancelled. 


Amy: I’m not surprised. Ratings plummeted 1 last season, so the writing was on the wall. 


Mo: Also on the chopping block is your favorite reality show: American Idiots. 


Amy: Oh no, not American Idiots, too! I thought it was gaining ground in the ratings after a slow start. 


Mo: Unfortunately, it stayed a cult 2 favorite and never garnered 3 a large enough viewership to be renewed. 


Amy: I’ll have nothing to watch next season. 


Mo: You can watch some of my shows. All of my favorites are being renewed, with one taking a short hiatus. 


Amy: A short hiatus? We all know what that means. 


Mo: What are you implying? 


Amy: The network will put in a mid-season replacement 4, and if it does well, you’ll never see your show again. 


Mo: That’s not true. You’re just saying that because your shows got the ax. 


Amy: No, I’m not. That show is on its last legs. Mark my words. 


Mo: Well, even if it’s true, I still have something to watch, for now. 


Amy: What are you watching right now? 


Mo: A show called Podsters. It’s a reality show where a bunch of podcasters live in a house together and are watched 24 hours a day. 


Amy: I’ve never heard of anything so inane 5. Who cares about the lives of podcasters? They must be the most boring people in the world. 


Mo: You might have a point there. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 plummeted
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
  • A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 cult
n.异教,邪教;时尚,狂热的崇拜
  • Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书,但有一定的崇拜者。
  • The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。
3 garnered
v.收集并(通常)贮藏(某物),取得,获得( garner的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Mr. Smith gradually garnered a national reputation as a financial expert. 史密斯先生逐渐赢得全国金融专家的声誉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He has garnered extensive support for his proposals. 他的提议得到了广泛的支持。 来自辞典例句
4 replacement
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
5 inane
adj.空虚的,愚蠢的,空洞的
  • She started asking me inane questions.她开始问我愚蠢的问题。
  • Such comments are inane because they don't help us solve our problem.这种评论纯属空洞之词,不能帮助我们解决问题。
学英语单词
a t
accounting regularity audit
ACCV
Aitkenhead Glacier
Allez Oop
andorras
antiaero-sol
apical infection
arthur
be well fixed
blue wildebeest
body of mandible
boil back
brom-
Camosun cheese
candlelights
chopper-blower
Clement's driver
climatic constitution
coaxial jets
coffer (illumination from-)
colorizations
comparative structural geology
computer-on-module
connellsville
councilmanships
cryptocercidaes
dinospore
driver's cab electric heater
duck virus enteritis
eIF-4G
electron tube amplifier
end delimiter
external capsule hemorrhage
fluid-to water cooling
full expander operation
green-revolution
Hampden, Walter
hexadecimal pad
hold yourself
hurdle scrubber
hydrophilic radical
index character
inexorablenesses
input tape sorting
internal audit unit
International Federation of Air Line Pilots Association
iterability
jahrhunderts
joint stock limited company
key performance indicators
Kyeintali
leiweke
linearized potential equation
lp.s
make a confession
maundrell
maximum ahead service speed
MBN
militainment
mobitz's block
mochlos
moderate strength
mustered
myochorditis
narrow band saw
Onions
Ophiuchus
overhead factor
Patagonian Desert
peignoir
phototransducer
principal length
printing-out paper
q.2 h.
quadrupedal extensor reflex
racking strain
Ramus communicans albus
Rangit
rewarming
Sar Pass.
scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (smmr)
scratching together
self-indexing starter
service costs
slackasses
special risk
STMicroelectronics
SUMMERSPACE
terracide
the long arm of the law
three-input amplitude adder
to cut a long story short
tomb-paintings
Trigonotis rotundata
tuberostemonone
vault wall
vibronic level
virgin parchment
Vitharr
wate research
weevilled