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Medley: Overture / Why Can't the English? - Julie Andrews
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
Look at her a prisoner of the gutter
看她 沦落街头的囚徒
Condemned by every syllable she utters
每个音节都招致审判
By right she should be taken out and hung
按律当押赴刑场
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
因她冷血谋杀了英语的荣光
Aaoooww
Aaoooww
Heavens what a noise
天呐 何等聒噪
This is what the British population
这就是不列颠子民的写照
Calls an elementary education
所谓基础教育
Come sir I think you picked a poor example
先生 恕我直言 您这例子举得可不怎么样
Did I
是吗
Hear them down in Soho square
听听苏活广场那些人
Dropping "h's" everywhere
随处乱丢h音
Speaking English anyway they like
英语说得随心所欲
You sir did you go to school
这位先生 您上过学吗
Wadaya tike me for a fool
您当我是傻子不成
No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'
没人教他把"tike"说成"take"
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse
听听约克郡人的口音 更糟的是
Hear a Cornishman converse
听听康沃尔人怎么交谈
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
我宁愿听唱诗班荒腔走板
Chickens cackling in a barn
就像谷仓里母鸡咯咯叫唤
Just like this one here
就跟眼前这位一个样
Garn
得了吧
I ask you sir what sort of word is that
先生您说说 这算哪门子话
It's "Aaoooww" and
正是那些"嗷嗷"声
"Garn" that keep her in her place
和"滚开"将她钉在底层
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
不是她褴褛的衣衫与脏污的脸庞
Why can't the English teach
为何英国人不能教会
Their children how to speak
他们的孩子得体说话
This verbal class distinction by now
这种言语的阶级划分
Should be antique
早该成为古董
If you spoke as she does sir
先生 若您像她这般说话
Instead of the way you do
而非你说话的方式
Why you might be selling flowers too
或许你本该是个卖花姑娘
I beg your pardon
请您见谅
An Englishman's way of
一个英国人的谈吐
Speaking absolutely classifies him
立刻就能暴露他的阶级
The moment he talks he
只要他开口说话
Makes some other Englishman despise him
就会招来其他英国人的鄙夷
One common language
本该有共同的语言
I'm afraid we'll never get
恐怕我们永远无法
Oh why can't the English learn to
噢 为何英国人就是学不会
Set a good example to people whose
给那些说着
English is painful to your ears
刺耳英语的人树立榜样
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
苏格兰人和爱尔兰人让你几近落泪
There even are places where
甚至有些地方
English completely disappears
英语已完全消失不见
In America they haven't used it for years
在美国 他们早已弃用多年
Why can't the English teach
为何英国人不能教会
Their children how to speak
他们的孩子得体说话
Norwegians learn Norwegian
挪威人精通挪威语
The Greeks are taught their Greek
希腊人熟稔希腊文
In France every Frenchman
在法兰西每个国民
Knows his language from "A" to "Zed"
从A到Z都通晓母语
The French never care what they do
法国人从不在意言行
Actually as long as they pronounce it properly
实际上 只要他们发音标准
Arabians learn Arabian with
阿拉伯人学习阿拉伯语
The speed of summer lightning
快如夏日闪电
The Hebrews learn it backwards
希伯来人倒着学
Which is absolutely frightening
简直令人胆寒
But use proper English
但若使用标准英语
And you're regarded as a freak
反被视为异类
Why can't the English
为何英国人就不能
Why can't the English learn
为何英国人就不能学会
To Speak
好好说话