Brush up Your Shakespeare - Danny Green/Jack Hylton Orchestra
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
The girls today in society go for classical poetry
当今社交圈的名媛们 都崇尚古典诗韵
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
要赢取芳心 须得信手拈来引经据典
Aeschylus ans Euripides
埃斯库罗斯与欧里庇得斯的名篇
One must know Homer and believe me bone
还得精通荷马史诗 听我肺腑之言
Sophocles also Sappho-ho
索福克勒斯和萨福的诗篇也要钻研
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope
若不识雪莱济慈蒲柏的锦绣诗章
Dainty Debbies will call you a dope
娇贵淑女们会笑你粗鄙*不堪*
But the poet of them all
但所有诗人中最耀眼的桂冠
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 Stratford 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》的台词
And they'll think you're a hell of a fella
她们就会觉得你魅力非凡
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter
若你的金发女郎对甜言蜜语无动于衷
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
就告诉她安东尼对埃及艳后说过的情话
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 nothing
何须在意衣裳 不过是小题大做
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
面对英国大使夫人时
Try a crack out of "Troilus and Cressida"
不妨引用《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》
If your baby won't buy it or tike it
若你的心上人不买账
Make her tike it what's more
更要让她心悦诚服
As you like it
皆大欢喜
As she says your behavior is heinous
她说你行为可憎
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
给她一记科利奥兰纳斯
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
若演不了哈姆雷特那般深沉
They just don't give a damn or a damlet
她们连半分青睐都不愿施舍
Just recite an occasional sonnet
只需偶尔吟诵十四行诗
And your lap'll have honey upon it
甜蜜自会降临你怀
If your baby is pleading for pleasure
若你的爱侣渴求欢愉
Let her sample you Measure for Measure
带她领略《一报还一报》的妙趣
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 of flesh you would menace
当你想威胁她珍贵的承诺时
In her virtue at first she defends well
起初她会坚守贞操
Just remind her that "All is Well That End is Well"
提醒她"终成眷属皆大欢喜"
And if still she won't give you a bonus
若她仍不愿给你青睐
You know what Venus got from Adonis
你可知维纳斯如何赢得阿多尼斯
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
Thinkist thou
君以为
All kow-tow
众生皆臣服
We thou
我们以莎翁之名
And they'll all kow-tow
她们都会对你俯首称臣