(单词翻译:单击)
You've got to identify the best, worthiest thing that you love most, and then build your house right on top of it.
语音讲解
今日发音练习重点:
1. worthiest happiest busy pretty
2. 虚词弱读:you've/to/the/that you/and then/your/on/of it
言之有物
1. 词链儿:you've got to XX 你一定要XX
You've got to be kidding me!
你一定是开玩笑!
You've got to go, whether you want to or not.
你去也得去,不去也得去。
2. right adv.
正好 =exactly
The bus came right on time.
公共汽车正好准时到达。
I'm right behind you on this one (= I am supporting you) .
在这件事情上,我完全支持你。
Right here Waiting
立即 immediately
I'll be right back.
我马上就回来。
I'll be right with you (= I am coming very soon) .
我这就过来。
拓展 very作为形容词: very+noun. =exact
Everybody says he is the very man for the case...
每个人都说他是接手这个案子的最佳人选。
词链儿:before/in front of sb's (very) eyes
当着某人的面/ 就在某人的眼皮底下
He had seen his life's work destroyed before his very eyes.
他曾看到他毕生的劳动成果就在自己的眼前毁于一旦。
3. on top of XX 在XX的上面
拓展:on top of that 除此之外/更重要的是
He lost his job and on top of that his wife left him.
他失业了,而且他的妻子也离开了他。
He gave me a meal and, on top of that, money for my journey.
他给我吃了一顿,除此之外,还给了我路费。
拓展 off the top of my head 未经深思熟虑、不能确定
I can't tell you the figures off the top of my head. I'll have to check it up.
我无法马上告诉你具体数字,我还得查一下。
活学活用
请用 on top of it 随意造句
《TED演讲:如何面对生活中的起起落落》(How to face the ups and downs in life)的演讲者Elizabeth Gilbert 曾连续6年收到拒信,但后来写出了世界级畅销书《美食、祈祷和恋爱》,还被改编为同名电影。Elizabeth Gilbert在享受了成功带来的喜悦后,很快就迷失了方向,甚至一度丧失了创作能力。后来她从以前的经历中找到了答案.只有你做足了充足的准备,成功才会降临.
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