Why Can't the English? (From " My Fair Lady")-Rex Harrison/Franz Allers

[ti:Why Can't The English?] [ar:Original Broadway Cast Recording] [al:My Fair Lady] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why Can't The English? - Rex Harrison/Franz Allers/The My Fair Lady Orchestra
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:11.01]Look at her a prisoner of the gutter
看看她我就像贫民窟的囚犯 [00:12.94] [00:14.24]Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered
她说的每一句话都让我备受谴责 [00:15.90] [00:17.02]By right she should be taken out and hung
按理说她应该被吊起来 [00:18.63] [00:19.78]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
冷血无情地扼杀英语 [00:22.49] [00:24.75]Heaven's What a noise
多么嘈杂的声音 [00:25.59] [00:26.40]This is what the British population
这就是英国人口 [00:28.68] [00:30.01]Calls an elementary education
所谓的基础教育 [00:32.33]Counsel I think you picked a poor example
律师我觉得你举的例子不太好 [00:34.52] [00:35.09]Did I
我有没有 [00:35.58] [00:36.98]Hear them down in Soho square
在苏活区广场倾听他们的声音 [00:38.78]Dropping his everywhere
到处都是枪 [00:40.40]Speaking English anyway they like
说着他们喜欢的英语 [00:42.34] [00:43.96]You sir did you go to school
先生你上过学吗 [00:46.04]Wadaya like me for a fool
像我这样的傻瓜 [00:47.64]No one taught him take instead of like
没人教会他索取而不是喜欢 [00:49.30] [00:51.22]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse
听到一个约克郡人或者更可怕的人 [00:52.88]Hear a Cornishman converse
听一个康尼许人的谈话 [00:54.47]I'd rather hear a quite singing flat
我宁愿听一首动听的乐曲 [00:56.21] [00:57.96]Chickens cackling in a barn
鸡在谷仓里叽叽喳喳地叫 [00:59.31] [01:00.19]Just like this one
就像这首歌 [01:01.20] [01:03.67]I ask you sir
我请求你先生 [01:04.36]What sort of word is that
那是什么词 [01:05.35] [01:06.58]It's Aoooow and Garn
这是Aooow和Garn的歌 [01:08.23]That keep her in her place
让她安于现状 [01:09.44] [01:10.98]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
不是她衣衫褴褛脏兮兮的脸 [01:13.43] [01:15.01]Why can't the English teach
为什么英语不会教 [01:16.78]Their children how to speak
他们的孩子该如何开口 [01:17.88] [01:18.46]This verbal class distinction
语言阶级的差别 [01:20.25]By now should be antique
现在应该是古董了 [01:21.42] [01:22.11]If you spoke as she does
如果你像她一样说话 [01:23.57]Sir instead of the way you do
先生而不是像你一样 [01:25.09] [01:25.69]Why you might be selling flowers too
为何你也要卖花 [01:27.72] [01:29.35]An Englishman's way of
一个英国人 [01:30.22]Speaking absolutely classifies him
说话绝对让他名垂青史 [01:32.32] [01:32.89]The moment he talks he makes some other
他开口的那一刻他就做出了另一种选择 [01:34.69]Englishman despise him
英国人看不起他 [01:35.90] [01:36.63]One common language
共同语言 [01:37.98]I'm afraid we'll never get
我害怕我们永远得不到 [01:39.31] [01:39.83]Oh why can't the English learn to set
为什么英国人就不能学会 [01:44.20]A good example to people whose
给那些 [01:46.54]English is painful to your ears
英语让你耳朵痛 [01:48.23] [01:49.90]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears
苏格兰和爱尔兰的酒让你忍不住落泪 [01:51.92] [01:53.49]There even are places
有些地方 [01:55.19]Where English completely
那里的英语完全 [01:56.77]Disappears
消失得无影无踪 [01:57.15] [01:58.45]In America
在美国 [01:59.05]They haven't used it for years
他们已经好几年没用了 [02:00.08] [02:02.03]Why can't the English teach
为什么英语不会教 [02:03.51]Their children how to speak
他们的孩子该如何开口 [02:04.59] [02:05.29]Norwegians learn Norwegian
挪威人学习挪威语 [02:06.98]The Greeks have taught their Greek
希腊人教授他们的希腊语 [02:08.19] [02:08.85]In France every Frenchman knows
在法国每个法国人都知道 [02:10.70]His language made to Zed
他的语言对Zed产生了影响 [02:11.82] [02:12.85]The French never care what they do actually
法国人从不在乎他们做了什么 [02:14.34]As long as they pronounce in properly
只要他们的发音准确 [02:15.54] [02:17.39]Arabians learn Arabian
阿拉伯人学习阿拉伯语 [02:18.86]With the speed of summer lightning
以夏日闪电的速度 [02:20.15] [02:20.93]And Hebrews learn it backwards
希伯来人倒背如流 [02:22.54]Which is absolutely frightening
真是令人恐惧 [02:23.88] [02:24.61]But use proper English
但是要用正确的英语 [02:26.03]You're regarded as a freak
你被视为怪物 [02:27.53] [02:28.30]Why can't the English
为什么英国人就不能 [02:29.46] [02:31.94]Why can't the English learn to speak
为什么英国人就是学不会说话