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
after - tax profit margin
airport construction fee
airy-heiskanen system
alternate current (ac)
asplenium ruta-murarias
atresia iridis
Ban Tha Sa Kae
broken conductor
by one's own fair hand
clivus ossis sphenoidalis
component rank
computer aided service
computerette
computing control system
concentric atrophy
Cooper I.
czar peter is
dermosphenotic
disassiduity
disconnect mode
distributing trough
double-tangent
drop shoulder
educabilities
electron donating group
entomological ecology
equinovarus
etherification of cellulose
euro-elections
external cleaning
external support logic
farm income or loss
federal diploma
firewatching
fissidentalium vicdani
Gear method
Ghāsipur
gyppo
harsh forfeiture clause
hexanitrin
holocephalans
hydraulic tube
international personality
jot something down
MAC (maximum admissible concentration)
metal oxide rectifier
mofezolac
N-Oxide
Norma
official bilateral creditor
open fireroom
Ophiorrhiza ensiformis
outmeasure
overstrike
penicillinase
Peskovka
phase-oscillation frequency
phlebotomic
photo tachometer
physiologists
pilot materials
postmission analysis
principle of inaccessibility
progress reports
proselytizing
proterogyrinids
Pundo
radial-velocity spectrometer
rain-affected
reacton turbine
record security
rectricial
ricating oil
roentgen-hour-meter
scaler-ratemeter
single-processors
SMIDSY
solid-state phase change
speed of rotation
sperm-banks
sponge holding forceps
squiggy
sudden infant death syndrome
suprare-nin
tagores
talentless
termed out
test-tube reproduction
the world of letters
then and now
threadgoldite
Trihexidyl
trusteth
unfriend-like
unslit
voluntary grantee
well-day
wild spinach
Yalow
yepp