你把那个叫帽子吗？

First listen and then answer the question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What kind of shopping does the writer enjoy, do you think?

’Do you call that a hat?’ I said to my wife.

’You needn’t be so rude about it,’ my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mirror.

I sat down on one of those modern chairs with holes in it and waited. We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wife was still in front of the mirror.

’We mustn’t buy things we don’t need,’ I remarked suddenly. I regretted saying it almost at once.

’You needn’t have said that,’ my wife answered. ’I needn’t remind you of that terrible tie you bought yesterday.’

’I find it beautiful,’ I said. ’A man can never have too many ties.’

’And a woman can’t have too many hats,’ she answered.

Ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together. My wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse!

New words and expressions 生词和短语

rude adj. 无礼的

mirror n. 镜子

hole n. 孔

remark v. 评说

remind v. 提醒

lighthouse n. 灯塔

参考译文

“你把那个叫帽子吗？”我对妻子说。

“你说话没必要这样不客气，”我的妻子边回答边照着镜子。

我坐在一个新式的满是网眼儿的椅子上，等待着。我们在这家帽店已经呆了半个小时了，而我的妻子仍在镜子面前。