• 1、 ‘Do you call that a hat?’ I said to my wife.
call 最常用的是“打电话”的意思。 同时，call还可表示 “把…叫做、称为”，常 用于口语和非正式文体中。
2.‘You needn’t be so rude about it, ‘my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mirror.
There is a hole in the wall. 墙上有一个洞。 带网眼的椅子
the chair with holes • 2.【口】为难的处境
His refusal put us in a hole.
put sb. in
他的拒绝使我们处于为难的境地。
• remark [ri’ma:k]
New Words
• remind [ri'maind] v.提醒
• remind sb. of sth. • remind sb. to do sth. • remind sb. that… • 我提醒杰克他曾许下的诺言。
I reminded Jack of his promise.
New Words
• remind [ri'maind] v.使……想起 这个故事使我想起我的一次亲身经历 The story reminds me of an experience I once had.
Shopping for himself.
2. What does the hat look like when the wife walked out of the shop?
A lighthouse.
Read and answer the questions.
1 Was the writer in a shop or a theatre? A shop.
People of the Stone Age used rude tools.
• mirror ['mirə]
n. 镜子 我能从后视镜中看到自己。
I can see myself in the drive mirror. look at oneself in the mirror 照镜子 e.g. My wife answered as she looked
at herself in the mirror.
a mirror of…
• a mirror of… • …的真实写照
Mark Twain’s novel is a mirror of his time. 马克·吐温的小说是他那个 时代的真实写照。
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• hole [həul]
n. • 1.洞; 孔
in despair
Lesson 41
Discuss
1.Do you often buy something that you don’t really need? What is it?
2. Who do you think are generally more extravagant, men or women? Why?
New Words
• lighthouse ['laithaus] • n.灯塔
在那个容易出事的地方一定得修建灯塔。 A lighthouse must be built at that dangerous place.
1.What kind of shopping does the writer enjoy, do you think?
1. host hostess
2.unsmiling serious
3.look up look down upon
4. tight tight jeans tights
5. fix one’s eyes on sb./sth. 6. be busy doing sth. / with sth. 7. despair & disappoint
• 1. v. 评说
• ‘我们不应该买不需要的东西’我突然评论道。
‘We mustn’t buy things we don’t need, 'I
remarked suddenly.
• 2. n.言辞;谈论,评论
• 他有说幽默话的习惯。
He has a habit of making humorous remarks.
Do you call that +a +名词？ 表示一种轻蔑的含义。
e.g. Do you call that a house ? Do you call that a vase ? Do you call that a chair ?
New words and sions
rude
adj.无礼的
mirror n.镜子
hole
n.孔
remark v.评说
remind v.提醒
lighthouse n.灯塔
New Words
• rude [ru:d]
adj. 1. 粗鲁的,无礼的 我并不想粗鲁无礼。
I did not intend to be rude.
2.粗糙的,简陋的 石器时代的人使用粗糙简陋的工具。
2 Who was he with? his wife.
3 His wife was trying a hat on, wasn't she? Yes, she was.
4 What did the writer say to his wife? ‘Do you call that a hat?’
5 Did she think the writer was being rude? Yes, she did. 6 How long had the writer been in the hat shop? Half an hour. 7 What was the remark the writer suddenly made? ‘We mustn't buy things we don't need.’ 8 How soon did the writer regret saying it? Almost at once.