趣味青春英语电台 第259期:Put your best foot forward
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：趣味青春英语
英语课
Idiom:
Put your best foot forward ( do your best )Hit the book:
Helipad
Mansion 1
Mythical 2
Opulent
Housewarming party
Elite 3
Soar
Panoramic 4
Slum
Withstand
Magnitude
An Indian businessman has built the world’s most expensive home—valued at $1 billion, with three helipads, its own air traffic control, a six-floor car park, a staff of 600, a four-storey hanging garden and a cinema. The 173-metre tall mansion is called Antilia, after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean, and has just been completed after seven years of construction.
n.大厦，大楼；宅第
- The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
- The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
adj.神话的；虚构的；想像的
- Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认，他是一个神话般的人物。
- Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。
n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的
- The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
- We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。