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。
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Abaiang Atoll
abraison terrace
acclimatizations
added component
air-conditioning installation
all two
amplitude-modulation signature
auxiliary tables
Azkalero
braasch
bugiard
burning compartment
burnt shale
castism
charts
codon bias
Croagh Patrick
defined area
deturbs
Dinoflagelloids
dioscorea sansibarensis
Diprion hercyniae
do-nothing instruction
droplock
elastoidosis
electronic processing equipment
Emperor Justinian
engine component
excretory
failings
flat butted seam
fluorine test
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frames dropped
free interstitial water
glovare
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ground floor price
high authoritarian
hornotine
huaihua powder
ideographic session
in repose
index reference line
intermediate cutting
island ice
kizil jilga
lend library
link identifier
liquid anion exchange resin
longispinogenin
merocel
metaphragm
moderate speed digital subscriber line
multispecies fishery
NANDs
night-by-night
non-tension rolling
page-oriented optical memories
pavement ape
pericardial pyopneumatosis
persistent perianth
person liable
petite nature
photocleavage
pneumatic step positioner
polygala furcata royle
pressure sensitive direction probe
proof beyond reasonable doubt
Prussianised
pulse time jitter
qader
reduction acetylation
residential area geography
Rhus semialata Murray
righthand
sea dust
seg-way
service-station
sgts
Shioya-gun
Singou
something for the weekend
Souprosse
steeleite (altered mordenite)
sticky alder forest
sublessee
sweating-house
sympodiella laxa
teleotemporal
Thai-American
three-decker
toe last
track occupancy indication
transpass
true bred
Vandenboschia
Vi Tan
white shellac
winter stagnation
xingwen
Yale, Elihu