《Why Can’t the English?》歌词

[00:00:00] Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison/Robert Coote/Julie Andrews/Franz Allers

[00:00:02] 以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供

[00:00:02] Lyrics by：Alan Jay Lerner

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[00:00:04] Composed by：Frederick Loewe

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[00:00:06] Arranged by：Robert Russell Bennett/Phil Land

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[00:00:09] Produced by：Goddard Lieberson

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[00:00:11] Look at her a prisoner of the gutters

[00:00:14] 看看她被贫民窟囚禁了

[00:00:14] Condemned by every syllable she ever utters

[00:00:17] 她说的每一句话都让我备受谴责

[00:00:17] By right she should be taken out and hung

[00:00:20] 按理说她应该被吊起来

[00:00:20] For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue

[00:00:23] 冷血无情地扼杀英语

[00:00:23] Aaoooww

[00:00:24] 啊

[00:00:24] Henry

[00:00:24] 亨利(男子名)

[00:00:24] Aaoooww Heavens what a sound

[00:00:28] 天啊多么动听的声音

[00:00:28] This is what the British population

[00:00:31] 这就是英国人口

[00:00:31] Calls an elementary education

[00:00:34] 所谓的基础教育

[00:00:34] Oh come Sir I think you picked a poor example

[00:00:36] 来吧先生我觉得你举了个错误的例子

[00:00:36] Did I

[00:00:38] 我有没有

[00:00:38] Hear them down in Soho square

[00:00:40] 在苏活区广场倾听他们的声音

[00:00:40] Dropping h's everywhere

[00:00:42] 到处都是那种东西

[00:00:42] Speaking English anyway they like

[00:00:46] 说着他们喜欢的英语

[00:00:46] You Sir did you go to school

[00:00:48] 先生你上过学吗

[00:00:48] Wadaya tike me for a fool

[00:00:49] 我是个傻瓜

[00:00:49] No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike

[00:00:53] 没有人教他学会索取而不是忍气吞声

[00:00:53] Hear a Yorkshireman or worse

[00:00:55] 听到一个约克郡人或者更可怕的人

[00:00:55] Hear a Cornishman converse

[00:00:57] 听一个康尼许人的谈话

[00:00:57] I'd rather hear a choir singing flat

[00:01:00] 我宁愿听到唱诗班的低音调

[00:01:00] Chickens cackling in a barn

[00:01:03] 鸡在谷仓里叽叽喳喳地叫

[00:01:03] Just like this one

[00:01:04] 就像这首歌

[00:01:04] Garn

[00:01:05] 加恩

[00:01:05] Henry

[00:01:05] 亨利(男子名)

[00:01:05] Garn I ask you Sir what sort of word is that

[00:01:10] 加恩我问你先生那是什么词

[00:01:10] It's Aoooow and Garn that keep her in her place

[00:01:14] 是Aooooow和Garn让她保持了原来的状态

[00:01:14] Not her wretched clothes and dirty face

[00:01:18] 不是她衣衫褴褛脏兮兮的脸

[00:01:18] Why can't the English teach their children how to speak

[00:01:22] 为什么英国人就不能教他们的孩子说话

[00:01:22] This verbal class distinction by now should be antique

[00:01:26] 这种语言等级的区分现在应该是古董了

[00:01:26] If you spoke as she does

[00:01:27] 如果你像她一样说话

[00:01:27] Sir Instead of the way you do

[00:01:29] 而不是像你一样

[00:01:29] Why you might be selling flowers too

[00:01:32] 为何你也要卖花

[00:01:32] I beg your pardon Sir

[00:01:33] 请你再说一次先生

[00:01:33] An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him

[00:01:37] 一个英国人说话的方式绝对使他

[00:01:37] The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him

[00:01:41] 他一开口就让别的英国人瞧不起他

[00:01:41] One common language I'm afraid we'll never get

[00:01:44] 恐怕我们永远无法找到共同语言

[00:01:44] Oh why can't the English learn to set

[00:01:48] 为什么英国人就不能学会

[00:01:48] A good example to people whose English is painful to your ears

[00:01:54] 给那些英语让你听起来痛苦的人一个好例子

[00:01:54] The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears

[00:01:58] 苏格兰和爱尔兰的酒让你忍不住落泪

[00:01:58] There even are places where English completely disappears

[00:02:03] 在有些地方英语完全消失了

[00:02:03] In America they haven't used it for years

[00:02:06] 在美国他们已经多年不用了

[00:02:06] Why can't the English teach their children how to speak

[00:02:10] 为什么英国人就不能教他们的孩子说话

[00:02:10] Norwegians learn Norwegian the Greeks are taught their Greek

[00:02:13] 挪威人学挪威语希腊人学希腊语

[00:02:13] In France every Frenchman knows his language from A to Zed

[00:02:17] 在法国每个法国人都精通自己的语言

[00:02:17] The French never care what they do actually

[00:02:19] 法国人从不在乎他们做了什么

[00:02:19] As long as they pronounce it properly

[00:02:22] 只要他们发音正确

[00:02:22] Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning

[00:02:26] 阿拉伯人以夏日闪电的速度学习阿拉伯语

[00:02:26] And Hebrews learn it backwards which is absolutely frightening

[00:02:29] 希伯来人倒背如流真是令人恐惧

[00:02:29] But use proper English you're regarded as a freak

[00:02:33] 但是用正确的英语你会被视为怪物

[00:02:33] Oh why can't the English

[00:02:37] 为什么英国人就不能

[00:02:37] Why can't the English learn to speak

[00:02:42] 为什么英国人就是学不会说话