【句子】Well, in spite of you calling it a toy, this is shaping up to top the best birthday I ever had. 【Modern Family-S1E19】
【发音】[wel] [ɪn] [spaɪt] [əv] [ju:] ['kɔ:lɪŋ] [ɪt] [ə] [tɔɪ] [ðɪs] [ɪz] [ʃeɪpɪŋ] [ʌp] [tʊ] [tɒp] [ðə] [best] [ˈbɜ:(r)θ.deɪ] [aɪ] ['evə(r)] [hæd]
【发音技巧】in spite of后两个词连读；calling it a toy连读；top the 不完全失去爆破；best birthday完全失去爆破；
【翻译】尽管你把它称之为“玩具”，但是，明天貌似会超过我曾经过得最开心的一个生日！
【适用场合】
shape up
If something is shaping up, it is starting to develop or seems likely to happen.
成型；……会发生
eg: The accident is already shaping up as a significant environmental disaster.
这场事故已经演变成一次影响巨大的环境灾难。

还可以用来表示 成长为……
eg: I did have a few worries about how Hugh and I would shape up as parents.
我确实曾经担心过，我和Hugh能否成为合格的父母亲。

top
v. 超过
eg: -- They've offered me $1,000. -- I'm afraid we can't top that.
-- 他们给我提供了一千美金。-- 恐怕我们超不过这个数字。

而且后半句话This is shaping up to top the best birthday I ever had. 末尾是一个定语从句呢，你们看出来了么？

【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】
It's shaping up to be a terrible winter.