Brush up Your Shakespeare (From "Kiss Me Kate") - Harry Clark/Jack Diamond
The girls today in society go for classical poetry
现今社会上的淑女们 个个爱舞文弄墨
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
要赢得她们的芳心 必须饱读诗书
Aeschylus and Euripides
希腊悲剧大师的作品要句句熟读
But the poet of them all
但是有一位诗人艺盖群雄
Who will start them simply raving
出口成章真让人如痴如狂
Is the poet people call
这就是那位来自埃文河畔
The Bard of Stratford on Avon
斯特拉特福镇的游吟诗王
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
Start quoting him now
现在开始引用他的名言
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And the women you will wow
女士们会对你佩服不已
Just declaim a few lines from Othella
只要你朗诵几句奥赛罗的台词
And they'll think you're a hell of a fella
他们就会觉得你棒极了
If your blond won't respond when you flatter
如果你喜欢的金发女郎不理你
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
就和她谈谈托尼和埃及艳后
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
如果她埋怨你弄乱了她的衣服
What are clothes Much ado about nussing
什么衣服 简直小题大做
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow
她们都会大吃一惊
With the wife of the British ambessida
和英国大使夫人在一起
Try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida
聊一聊特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达
If she says she won't buy it or tike it
如果她说她不感兴趣
Make her tike it what's more As You Like It
可以和她聊一聊皆大欢喜
If she says your behavior is heinous
如果她说你的行为令人发指
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
直接和她讲讲科里奥兰纳斯
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow thinkst thou
她们都会对你大吃一惊
And they'll all kow-tow odds Bodkins
她们都会对Odds Bodkins大吃一惊
All kow-tow
大吃一惊