Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Jack Diamond/Harry Clark
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
The girls today in society go for classical poetry
当今社交场上的淑女们 独爱古典诗韵
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 and you Euripides
埃斯库罗斯与欧里庇得斯皆可谈
But the poet of them all
但众诗人中最摄魂者
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
能让她们痴狂沉醉的
Is the poet people call
正是世人尊称的
The Bard of Stratford on Avon
埃文河畔斯特拉特福的吟游诗人
Brush up your Shakespeare
快温习你的莎士比亚
Start quoting him now
现在就开始引用他吧
Brush up your Shakespeare
快温习你的莎士比亚
And the women you will wow
定能让女士们惊叹不已
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 'er
若你的金发女郎对你的赞美无动于衷
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 nussing
衣衫何妨 不过是小题大做
Brush up your Shakespeare
快温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow
她们便会俯首称臣
With the wife of the British ambassida
对英国大使夫人
Try a crack out of "Troilus and Cressida"
不妨引用《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》
If she says she won't buy it or tike it
若她推辞不愿接受
Make her tike it what's more As You Like It
就让她接受 正如《皆大欢喜》所言
If she says your behavior is heinous
若她指责你行为恶劣
Kick her right in the Coriolanus
就用《科利奥兰纳斯》回敬
Brush up your Shakespeare
快温习你的莎士比亚
And they'll all kow-tow
她们便会俯首称臣
Thinkist thou
你且思量
And they'll all kow-tow
她们便会俯首称臣
Odds bodkins
老天在上
All kow-tow
皆俯首称臣