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。
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a dime
acetylorthocresotinic acid
alpha hydrogen
alvin york
angioderma pigmentosum
angle measuring equipment
apertures
application control block generation
asphaltic mastic
automatic reversible battery booster
B-2A
beam splitting
black storm
blinker gun
brugger
bundala
busy token
casing dog
cholecystectomized
chromic boride
circuit module
circular weld
clypeiform
coldcock
copper wire cloth
cotoin
count relay indication
date received
deadweight cargo tonnage
dept-names
DILLIC
discriminator transformator
draisine
ectonucleotidases
enamel layer
Epicurus
extensionists
family drepanididaes
gadient
geppert
glassfibre reinforced polyester resin
got old
guaranteed issue
gunshed
hand lifting winch
hentgen
hot and dry rolling
hymnar
i-v
immunocell
impulse excited oscillator
in a good hour
indices of performance
lagace
liar
long relief pitcher
maritime mobile telegraphy call
Meramangye, L.
meter case
Minulet
Moral de Calatrava
multi-access
musikhochschule
night mode
offshore loading and unloading system
one too much for someone
paralipomenon
parsoner
pecan pie
peri-infarction block
Phosphoscordite
Pleurochacte
point locking bar
political environments
poly(p-phenylene)
positive interaction
POTS
pyrosclriite
recessus membran? tympani superior
red-points
red-tail
return gear box
revenue from state enterprise
sale of goods
scratch hardness
sijos
solid figures
steam cure
stress waves
Tajiri
three-set space diversity
tipsier
toggle chain
turbocompound engine
upland catchment
Viburnum opulus
vinceine
weight of relative invariant
Wiimotes
workman's compensation
year maintenance
Zeeman