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
3-Chloroplumbagin
acoustic fishing
aeciostage
aesthetic shank surgery
alloyed transistor
anode pinhole
apex of cone
beneath one's breath
blood collector
borrey
break your duck
cabin fan
canned tuna
Chalna
chee chees
Chiwayu
choline citrate
cold period
commercial services
counting dances
crickey
cross ink
deboshes
deckter
declaratory action
desirablenesses
dichotomised
dust measurement
engine reduced power
extraction check valve
field-effect capacitor
filling slippage
fixed assess
Forbes disease
founders bonds
friendly name
frog-suit
frstiness
full pressure
fuse block
gamekeeping
gastroenterographic
graduated bar
gritty scale
hagisawa
hearth furnace
herpetiform measles
honeycomb rock
impacted cerumen
instron tester
instrument reading
integrated injection logic chip
juice-heads
Khakasskaya AO
Kochevaya
leki
line of service
Little Princess
lovinit
lower of cost or market method
lukachko
malicious attack
mental makeup
microbiological antagonism
mltc
monitoring unit
moving-window
mycobacterium tuberculoses
N-ethyl carbazole
NADL
neutron reflecting mirror
oreasterids
organoma
particular equilibrium
Passionist
phanerochaete albida
postpone a payment
prime land
pyrrolopyridines
radioactive waste disposal
recuperance
reporteth
Rigelon
sales as seen
sammo
Saururus L.
ship classed in BV
Sida laneeolata
spear-grass
stratified volcano
stychomythia
swarved
synaesthesias
Tape Shredding
technical assistance and manufacturing agreement
termiticidal
tide sequence
topographic old age
trish
turban squashes
Western Balochi
wind-field interaction