To Top it Off里的每个词都好简单,怎么合在一起就看不懂了呢?|托福听力习语消灭计划第19期
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2024-07-05 15:00
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在这个系列中，狸老师会帮大家从tpo和考场真题中挑选出英语中常见的习语和固搭配"To Top It Off"
to top it off (也可以说to top it all off) 是一个生活化的表达，意思是"最糟糕的是，最妙的是，最精彩的是..."，它放在一系列发生的事情，或者描述的最后，表达最后这件事情比之前的几件都更甚（可以是好事，也可以是坏事。）比如：这个男明星到处吹牛，背地里说别人的坏话，更绝的是，他还脚踏好几条船。" used to indicate a final thing that happened that was even better, worse, etc., than what happened before "
-The car was filthy when she returned it to me, and to top it (all) off, there was almost no gas left in the tank.-她把车还我的时候，车脏得不行，最糟糕的是，车里一点油都没有了。-The washing machine started leaking, my car broke down, then to top it all off, I locked myself out of the house.- 洗衣机开始漏水，我的车也抛锚了，而最糟糕的是，我把自己锁在家门外了。... The day before I was supposed to give him a ride, I took the trash out of the back seat and even had the car washed—I suppose I was thinking in the back of my mind that, you know, if my car was neat and tidy, the president would think that I was, um, responsible, respectful…. And then, to top it off, when the president got in the car, I changed the radio to a classical station. Now, I don’t even like classical music. I guess I must have been thinking that classical music would seem more, um, sophisticated.
-在我送他去开会的前一天，我把车后座的垃圾拿出来扔了，我猜我当时是想说，如果我的车整洁干净，那么大学主席就会觉得我是个负责，体面的人。然后，最绝的是，在主席上了车之后，我就把车里的电台换成古典乐了。我本人根本不喜欢古典音乐。我猜我当时肯定是觉得听古典乐可以让我看起来更成熟一些。
*选自tpo52综合口语真题中的一篇讲座。
这个习语的发音很简单，但是有很多语音现象要注意~比如to是虚词所以要弱读，发成/tə/。以及top和it可以连读，it和off也可以连读。那么先来听听看Heather老师是怎么读的👇：接下来，大家来看看下面这个出现了该习语的视频集锦，一起来通过语境体会它的意思，提高反应速度吧！
*片段分别来自：
1. 美剧 <老爸老妈浪漫史> 2. 美剧 <疑犯追踪> 3. 美剧 <豪斯医生> 4.美剧 <老爸老妈浪漫史>
本期内容就到这里啦，我们第二十期再见！
