跟着Gwen學英語之每日早讀 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.

語音講解

今日發音練習重點：

1. worthiest happiest busy pretty

2. 虛詞弱讀：you've/to/the/that you/and then/your/on/of it

言之有物

1. 詞鏈兒：you've got to XX 你一定要XX

You've got to be kidding me！

你一定是開玩笑！

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.

公共汽車正好準時到達。

I'm right behind you on this one (= I am supporting you) .

在這件事情上，我完全支持你。

Right here Waiting

立即 immediately

I'll be right back.

我馬上就回來。

I'll be right with you (= I am coming very soon) .

我這就過來。

拓展 very作爲形容詞： very+noun. =exact

Everybody says he is the very man for the case...

每個人都說他是接手這個案子的最佳人選。

詞鏈兒：before/in front of sb's (very) eyes

當着某人的面/ 就在某人的眼皮底下

He had seen his life's work destroyed before his very eyes.

他曾看到他畢生的勞動成果就在自己的眼前毀於一旦。

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.

他失業了，而且他的妻子也離開了他。

He gave me a meal and, on top of that, money for my journey.

他給我吃了一頓，除此之外，還給了我路費。

拓展 off the top of my head 未經深思熟慮、不能確定

I can't tell you the figures off the top of my head. I'll have to check it up.

我無法馬上告訴你具體數字，我還得查一下。

活學活用

請用 on top of it 隨意造句

《TED演講：如何面對生活中的起起落落》（How to face the ups and downs in life）的演講者Elizabeth Gilbert 曾連續6年收到拒信，但後來寫出了世界級暢銷書《美食、祈禱和戀愛》，還被改編爲同名電影。Elizabeth Gilbert在享受了成功帶來的喜悅後，很快就迷失了方向，甚至一度喪失了創作能力。後來她從以前的經歷中找到了答案.只有你做足了充足的準備，成功纔會降臨.

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