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
a baboon
abercrombies
Annulipalpia
anodic protector
assumed mediam
axial module
bare pole charter
be lovely
broyse
cardakew
carse
cladobotryum aleuritidis
colloid substance
Coopers and Lybrand
cracked pitches
cross station
cross-section of conductor
cyanobacteria
deir abu said (dayr abu said)
divided harness
Downholme
draped
Dudleyville
earth observation
elastic creep recovery
electrose
explosive torpedo
external orifices
extrajudicial document
falsisms
feeable
fin ray (or pterygiophore (pterygophore))
floor plates
flow recompression
foot rot and leaf blight of brome grass
fuel reprocessing
functional assessment
gastroenteropancreatic endocrine system
glovers suture
hazard and race condition
hungry-man
hutchful
hyperrealities
iminos
immersion electron lens
indirect injurious insect
inter-industry equilibrium
ixioides
John-a-stiles
Kadoma
Kainantu
kommunalka
laryngeal catarrh
left Artinian ring
live-forever
local education committee
Machaeni
magnetic disk cartridge
maximum average temperature
miscleaving
mycopsphaerella brassicicola (fries) lindau
nested cell
non-Euclidean radius
ostreids
PDLCs
perieodic current
pharyngo-oesophageal system
phosphor-dope
pilot-in-command
PIPD
pneumatic bulk vehicle
post-tarsal
press-stud
pulleyblock
punch configuration
quadruple star system
random disturbance term
rear commodore of convoy
resistance-capacitance generator
Rhinoestrus
rock-hopping
routineanalyticalbalance
rush hours
saccharite
screening
sea trifolies
senex
smog chamber
Sorbus caloneura
stream-line
subaerial spring
sunshines
tar dehydrating still
thermal cycler
titanic oxides
torous
unchalked
untanking facilities
uranyl fluoride
wall coated open tubular column
wharfmasters
wudhu