Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Sid James/Six Hits/a Miss
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The girls today in society go for classical poetry
当今社交场的淑女们 独爱古典诗韵
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
要赢芳心须得信手拈来引经据典
Aeschylus ans Euripides
埃斯库罗斯与欧里庇得斯
One must know homer and believe me eau
荷马史诗需烂熟于心
Sophocles also Sappho-ho
索福克勒斯和萨福亦不可少
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and pope
若不知雪莱济慈与蒲柏
Dainty derbies will call you a **
优雅闺秀便笑你呆头鹅
But the poet of them all them all
但众诗人中最耀眼的星辰
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
谁能让人为之疯狂
Is the poet people call
正是那位诗人
The bard of Stafford on Avon
埃文河畔的斯特拉特福吟游者
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
Start quoting him now
现在就开始引用他
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And the women you will wow
定能赢得佳人芳心
Just declaim a few lines from othella
只需朗诵几句《奥赛罗》
And they'll think you're a hell of a fella
她们会认为你魅力非凡
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
若金发女郎对你的甜言蜜语无动于衷
Tell her what tony told cleopatterer
就告诉她安东尼对埃及艳后说的情话
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
若她抗拒你弄乱她的衣裳
What are clothes much ado about nursing
何须在意衣裳 不如谈谈育儿经
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow
她们都会对你俯首称臣
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
Start quoting him now
现在就开始引用他
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And the women you will wow
定能赢得佳人芳心
With the wife of the British ambassida
面对英国大使的夫人
Try a crack out of troilus and cressida
不妨试试《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》的桥段
If your baby won't buy it or try it
若你的心上人不买账或不愿尝试
Make her toke it what's more as you like it
就让她像《皆大欢喜》般沉醉其中
If she says your behavior is heinous
若她指责你的行为太过恶劣
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
让她为《科利奥兰纳斯》倾倒
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow
她们都会对你俯首称臣
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
Start quoting him now
现在就开始引用他
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And the women you will wow
定能赢得佳人芳心
If you can't be a ham and do hamlet
若不能演绎哈姆雷特
They just don't give a damn or a dam let
她们根本不屑一顾
Just recite an occasional sonnet
只需偶尔吟诵十四行诗
And your lap'll have honey upon it
你的膝上便会沾满蜜糖
If your baby is pleading for pleasure
若你的宝贝渴求欢愉
Let her sample you measure for measure
就让她细细品味你的分寸
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow
她们都会对你俯首称臣
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
Start quoting him now
现在就开始引用他
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And the women you will wow
定能赢得佳人芳心
Better mention the merchant of Venice
最好提及《威尼斯商人》
When her sweet pound o' flesh you would menace
当她为贞洁据理力争时
In her virtue at first she defends well
起初她坚守得滴水不漏
Just remind her that all's well tat ends well
只需提醒她结局好就一切都好
And if still she won't give you a bonus
若她仍不愿给你额外奖赏
You know what Venus got from Adonis
你可知道维纳斯从阿多尼斯那里得到了什么
Brush up your Shakespeare
温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow we trou'
她们都会对你俯首称臣
All kow-tow we trou'
全都对你俯首称臣
And they'll all kow-tow
她们都会对你俯首称臣