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
additional document
adviser, advisor
aiphanes truncata wendl.
announceth
anti-globalization
Arctium minus Bernhardi
automatic data-switching center
Bakanas
beefy suit
bioquinone
blacksmith's slag
blade retainer
body louse
Brims Ness
bucket can
cantator
capital accounting
clevidipine
closed bomb
colored mortar
colutea arborescenss
commonwealth
computer operation
consumption allowance
creep crack
Cultural Revolution
dashpot rotameter
DC comparison type potentiometer
Dietl's crisis
dipropyl carbonate
direct consumption coefficient
dissociation tension
dizamn
Dostoyevsky
drearihead
endowing
etydion
Euerbach
ever-smokers
faucet of construction
fireset
gasfilled
gieringer
glycuronuria
gold sterilization policy
good leasehold title
googlability
hammily
hand wheel screw down
Hegranes
hemorrhagiferous
holocenes
hoppenheim
horde-
hourly growth rate
hydrotherophytes
i-taxed
Iringa
Kurop-to
leaf-cutter ant
leggatt
line type
Lithane
lithocarpus hencei rehd.
lockages
Machida
Madhubani
maletreats
mental irritability
menu tree
metastatic tumor of ovary
non-inhibitable interrupt
normal final age
pentabromoethane
planktotrophic
podosome
polyvinyl chloride shrinkable film
preserved egg
prestigiations
price sovereinty
progressive bonding
ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in seawater
receive sequence
rising characteristic
Runding
sacret
Sambanghyǒp
sequitur
smoke and fog effect
soddie
sporomorphidium
stitching warp
T.G.B.
the thread of life
Thean
tined harrow
trichechus inunguis
unilateral signalflow
vestibule of larynx
withholding period
Woodford County
ypsilon