'Do you call that a hat?' I said to my wife.'Youneedn't be so rude about it,' my wife answered asshe looked at herself in the mirror.I sat down on oneof those modern chairs with holes in it and waited.We hadbeen in the hat shop for half an hourand my wife was still in front of the mirror.‘Wemustn't buy things we don't need,' I remarkedsuddenly. I regretted saying it almost at once.'You needn't have said that,' my wife answered.‘Ineed not remind you of that terrible tie you boughtyesterday.' "I find it beautiful,"I said. A man can never have too many ties."And a woman can'thave too many hats,"she answered.Ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together. Mywife was wearing a hat that lookedlike a lighthouse !
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4. We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wife was still in front of the mirror.
我們?cè)谶@家帽子店已經(jīng)待了半小時(shí),而我的妻子依然站在鏡子前。
語言點(diǎn)1 half an hour = a half hour 半小時(shí);one and a half hours 一個(gè)半小時(shí)
語言點(diǎn)2 be in front of the mirror = look oneself in the mirror 照鏡子
5.‘We mustn't buy things we don't need,’I remarked suddenly.
“我們不應(yīng)該買我們不需要的東西,”我突然發(fā)表意見說。
語言點(diǎn) 本句包含一個(gè)省去了關(guān)系代詞的定語從句。補(bǔ)充完整應(yīng)該是:
We mustn't buy things that / which we don't need.
6. I regretted saying it almost at once.
我馬上后悔說了這話。
語言點(diǎn) regret doing sth.后悔做了某事,請(qǐng)參考Lesson35課文分析。