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
acer oblongum var.macrocapum hu
admit a claim
ambiguous phrase of combination type
anorthoscope
attrited black
Bersmulen
bitchier
bitra par
canbra oil
central immersed longitudinal plane
chartbook
circummeridian
coio
common year
cryptomonad
cyprinin
diabatic two-phase flow
dinnel
dmba
doria strip
Doue-la-Fontaine
dum fuit non compos mentis
dupuis
elaphe guttatas
emission spectroanalysis
entamoeba caviae
Every man has a fool in his sleeve
ferrozirconium
fire nozzle
first sweating
Francois' disease
fusing soldering
galloway cattle
genus Aspis
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Goniatidae
half down and half instalment
hans christian andersens
health condition
hospital lift
hot-air unit
hwa-mei
ICID
image digitisation
inner transformation
intensive quantities
interstage cyclone
involuntary group
Jenilyn
john william strutts
jump drives
ladybird beetle
large enterprises
latent learning
low-water datum
mammalgia
Marion, L.
mechanically-polished slice
mesopia vision
naphthalene blue
natural linewidth
neurologic
ohno-second
one-dimensional cycle
outer space vehicle
parchettite
pasaron
philanthropic activity
post time
propagating zero-sided Lindenmayer system
proton-active
queensborough
Rhododendron beanianum
s-plate
scanning lens
sea pilot
Siemerling
single side-band distortion
spinal rasping forceps
spleen pulp
state highway
suction chamber
sulfur oxychloride, sulfurous oxychloride
super-large-scale integration
suspended cable
tambov red cattle
test and repair processor
thackrey
the majority of
thorium family
three-tube camera
tie game
tractus corticorubralis
triacetyl-glucose
two-mile-wide
underflow indication
viscosity anomaly
wavemaking
white damar
word-mongering
working scale
yoghurted