Lesson 41: Do you call that a hat?
你把那个叫帽子吗?
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。
“我们不应该买我们不需要的东西,”我突然发表意见说,但马上又后悔说了这话。
“你没必要这么说,”我妻子回答说,“我也不必提醒你昨天买的那条糟糕透了的领带。”
“我觉得它好看,”我说,“男人有多少领带也不会嫌多。”
“女人有多少帽子也不嫌多。”她回答。
10分钟以后,我们一道走出了商店。我妻子戴着一顶像灯塔一样的帽子。
学习重点
1.Do you call that a hat? (标题)你把那个叫帽子吗?
“Do you call that/sth. +(冠词)+名词”这个结构可以表达“把……叫做……”:
Do you call that a house/a dog? 你把那个叫房子/狗吗?
I call my diary Kette. 我把我的日记叫做Kette.
2.I regretted saying it almost at once. 我马上又后悔说了这话。
“regret +动名词/名词/that从句”通常表示为做过的某件事感到后悔、懊悔:
I now regret leaving my country/ that I have left my country.
我现在后悔离开了自己的祖国。
He regretted having been rude to her.
他后悔自己对她无礼。
Did he regret his mistake?
他为自己的错误感到后悔了吗?
regret +不定式表示对现在或将来要做的事感到对不起、遗憾,比 be sorry + 不定式要正式,通常用“regret to say/tell/inform…”:
We regret to tell you that you are not welcome.
我们很遗憾地告诉您,您不受欢迎。
3.I find it beautiful. 我觉得它好看。
动词find经常用于“动词+宾语+宾语补足语”这种结构.还有 make/think/feel/consider等词语用于这个结构:
You'll find it difficult/easy to make conversation with her.
你将会发现与她聊天很困难/容易。( it代指后面的不定式短语)
I find this book very interesting.
我觉得这本书很有趣。
4.A man can never have too many ties. 男人有多少领带也不会嫌多。
“cannot/can never…too…”(固定结构)表示“无论怎么……也不会过分”:
A woman can't have too many hats.
女人有多少帽子也不嫌多。
You can't be too careful in doing your work.
你工作越小心越好。
课后练习答案详解:
1. a 根据课文第一句 ‘Do you call it a hat?’ I said to my wife. (“你把那个叫帽子吗?”我对妻子说),可以判断作者不喜欢那顶帽子,所以a. didn’t like the hat his wife had chosen 是正确答案。 其他3个选择都与事实不符。
2. a 根据课文第9-10行 ‘You needn’t have said that, ’ my wife answered. ‘I needn’t remind you of that terrible tie you bought yesterday’, 可以判断只有a. his wife reminded him that he had bought a terrible tie
与课文的实际情况相符,是作者为对他妻子粗鲁讲话而后悔的原因,其他3个选择都与事实不符,也不合乎逻辑。
3. c a. mustn't (不应该);b. wont(不想要);c. needn't(不必);d. don't need(不需要)4个选择中只有c. needn't 与后面一句It isn't necessary(没必要)的含义相同,所以选c.
4. d a. still 和 d. yet 都有“还,仍然”的含义,但yet只能用于否定和疑问句中,表示“还没……”,still常用于肯定句中。前面一句是肯定句,用了still,本句是完成时态的否定句,因此只能选d. b. even(甚至),c. also(也)都不合乎题目意思和语法。
5. c a. needn't, b. need not, d. haven't need 有语法错误,只有c.最合乎题目意思和语法,所以只能选c.
c. don't need 不需要, 这里把need 当做实意动词。用助动词do 来帮助完成。 a. needn't 不是很清楚,我们既可以把它当做情态动词,又可以当做实意动词。所以我们不选a. 我们不能选一个模棱两可的答案。
6. b 本句是针对一个事物的性质或状态提问的,回答是beautiful. 是对状态或性质提问的,所以应该选b.
7. b 只有b. impossible(不可能的,办不到的)同前一句中的can never have(永远不能有)的意思比较接近,因此应该选b. a. unable(不能的,不会的)指人没能力,不能用it做主语。 c. improbable(不大可能发生,未必会的)语气不如impossible 强。 d. incapable(无能力的,不能的)指人没能力。
8. a a. reflection(映像,反射的图像), b. idol(偶像,神像), c .imagination(想象,想象力 ), d.
picture(图画,照片),只有a.最符合题目的意思。照镜子所看到的结果应该是自己的映像reflection,所以应该选a.
9. d 前一句的remind of 是"提醒你"的意思,本句需要选一个同这个词组意义相同的短语. a. recall you(回想起你), b. remember you(想起你), c. memorise you (记住你), d. make you remember (使你想起),只有d 与remind of 的含义相同,所以选d.
10. a 前一句中They walked out together 中的they 是指作者和他的妻子两个人,因此应该选a. They
both(他们两个都)。 b. they all(他们大家都),c. some of them(他们中间的一些人), d. Neither of
them(他们两个都不)这3个选择都不合乎题目意思。
11. c 只有 c. had it on (戴着它)同前一句中的was wearing a hat (戴着一顶帽子)的意思相同,所以应该选c.
had it on. a. was dressing it 中dress 作及物动词时候表示“给……穿衣服”,用作不及物动词的时候表示“穿衣服”;b. was putting it on (正在穿上或戴上);d. was carrying it (正带着)。这3个选择的意思都不够恰当。
12. b a. appeared similar(看起来相似); b. resembled(与……相像); c. matched(与……相配);d likened(把……比作); 只有b.同前一句的look like(像)的意思相同,所以选b.
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