Do you call that a hat?
原文
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!
译文
你觉得这位作家喜欢哪种类型的购物呢?
“你那叫帽子吗?”我对我的妻子说道。
“你没必要这么无礼啊。”
我妻子一边看着镜子中的自己,一边回答了我。
我坐在一把带洞的现代椅子上等着。
我们在那家帽子店已经待了半个小时了,而我妻子仍然站在镜子前。
“我们不应该购买那些我们不需要的东西,”我突然说道。
我几乎立刻就后悔说了那句话。
“你其实没必要那么说,”我的妻子回答道。
“我其实没必要再提醒你昨天你买的那条糟糕的领带了。”
“我觉得它很漂亮,”我说,“一个男人有多少领带也不嫌多。”
“而女人的帽子也是有多少都不嫌多,”她回答道。
十分钟后,我们一起走出了那家商店。
我妻子戴着一顶看起来像灯塔的帽子!