跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读 第529期

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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