'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 holesin it and waited.We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and mywife was still in front of the mirror.‘We mustn't buythings we don't need,' I remarked suddenly. Iregretted saying it almost at once. 'You needn'thave said that,' my wife answered.‘I need notremind you of that terrible tie you boughtyesterday.' "I find it beautiful,"I said. A man can never have too many ties."And awoman can't have too many hats,"she answered. Ten minutes later we walked out of theshop together. My wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse !
精讲笔记：
7. 'You needn't have said that,'my wife answered. “I needn't remind you of thatterrible tieyou bought yesterday.”
“你没必要这样说，”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。”
语言点 needn’t have done用来表示过去不必要发生的动作，但是却发生了。
I needn't have recited all the passages.
我原本没有必要背诵所有的段落。
8.“I find it beautiful,” I said. “A man can never have too many ties.”
“我觉得它挺好看，”我说，“男人拥有多少领带也不会嫌多。”
语言点 cannot…too / over…，can never... too / over…意思是“无论怎么……也不为过分”或是“越……越好”：
I cannot thank my parents too much.
我无论怎么感谢我的父母都不过分。
You can never be too careful when you drive a car.
当你开车的时候，你越小心越好。
Drinking water can never be too clean.
饮用水越干净越好。
9.“And a woman can't have too many hats,” she answered.
“女人有多少帽子也不嫌多，”她回答。
语言点 句型结构与上一句相同。
