课文
Do you call that a hat「你把那个叫帽子吗?」
‘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!
译：
“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。
词
remind：**v./n. 提醒**
remind sb. of sth.「提醒某人某物」
eg:I remind you of that book
remind sb. to do sth.「提醒某人做某事」
reminder「提示物」
句子
need
实义动词「有时态和人称的变化」
need sth.
need to do sth./need sb. to do sth.
need doing「被动（44课）」
He needs some time.
He needs to have a rest.
He needs friends to help him.
His bag needs mending.「他的包需要被修理」
否定形式：don’t/doesn’t/didn’t/won’t need
情态动词
need do「（真实）常用于否定和疑问中」
need have done「虚拟」
否定形式：needn’t
课文
in front of「在…前面（外部的前面）」
in front of the mirror「镜子前」
in the front of「在…前面（内部的前面）」
She is sitting in the front of the bus.「她坐在公交车前面」
take one’s seat「在指定位置就坐」
take your seat please!「你请坐！」
Please take/have a seat.「请坐」
need have done「（虚拟）本来需要做某事，但事实没做」
needn’t have done「本来不需要做某事，但事实上做了」