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
accumulative offence
acid electrode
added tax
Amerian hellebore
Armenia
austin
bath-towel
bellow with pain
bidirectional reflectance
bioconverters
biomatter
Briggs-Rauscher reaction
Claresholm
columneas
confirmed irrevocable credit
cybertechnology
defectual
deferential
disk overhead
epiotokous
FCVN
feed cistern
FL (forced lubrication)
floating-point arithmetic library
forced suspending
frangule
friction feed paper
front drive axle clutch fork
galbanums
gandy-dancers
gymnadenias
Gymnorhina
hamentashen
heat-proof tubing of inner-corru-gated expansion joint
hermetically-sealed type transformer
herring warp
homoeoplastic
hoppus ton
hydraulic gradient line
hydrostatic drives
iatrogenic pituitary disorders
infeasible method
initiation device
Julian Alps
kaempferol-3-arabinoside
Klokova, Mys
kplutonium
lacunate collenchyma
lahm
leadership life-cycle theory
legume crop
loan exposure
Lycopodiinae
MacArthur equilibrium theory
main cold store
make yourselves understood
malduins
man-marks
marchaiss
maximum likelihood large-sample test
meat patty former
millgate
multinucleate giant cell
naltrindol
Natronmargarite
otitis mycotica
Oxymetopontinae
pacing group size
Parafluthiazirde
permanent employment
permeability limit
phut-phut
prayin'
pressure crack
pyroxene gneiss
quadragenarious
radiant spherical exposure
Radovets
refrygeracion
remba
rhythmic accumulations
road freight
root of joint
sanitory
schoenholtz
signal number plate
so much in love
spinasternums
stapledonian
subtlest
Summit Peak
surpliced
symmetric I/O unit
synomone
synthetic asphalts
syringectomy
taker-in wire
the Department for Work and Pensions
threading slot
viscous force
water distillation
window type air-conditioner