笨小笨Why Cant the English?歌词由Rex Harrison&Julie Andrews演唱，出自专辑《My Fair Lady: Original London & Broadway Casts Recordings (Bonus Track Version)》，下面是《Why Cant the English?》完整版歌词！
Why Cant the English?歌词完整版
Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison/Robert Coote
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Lyrics by：Alan Jay Lerner
Composed by：Frederick Loewe
Arranged by：Robert Russell Bennett/Phil Land
Produced by：Goddard Lieberson
Look at her a prisoner of the gutters
看看她被贫民窟囚禁了
Condemned by every syllable she ever utters
她说的每一句话都让我备受谴责
By right she should be taken out and hung
按理说她应该被吊起来
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
冷血无情地扼杀英语
Aaoooww
啊
Henry
亨利(男子名)
Aaoooww Heavens what a sound
天啊多么动听的声音
This is what the British population
这就是英国人口
Calls an elementary education
所谓的基础教育
Oh come Sir I think you picked a poor example
来吧先生我觉得你举了个错误的例子
Did I
我有没有
Hear them down in Soho square
在苏活区广场倾听他们的声音
Dropping h's everywhere
到处都是那种东西
Speaking English anyway they like
说着他们喜欢的英语
You Sir did you go to school
先生你上过学吗
Wadaya tike me for a fool
我是个傻瓜
No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike
没有人教他学会索取而不是忍气吞声
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse
听到一个约克郡人或者更可怕的人
Hear a Cornishman converse
听一个康尼许人的谈话
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
我宁愿听到唱诗班的低音调
Chickens cackling in a barn
鸡在谷仓里叽叽喳喳地叫
Just like this one
就像这首歌
Garn
加恩
Henry
亨利(男子名)
Garn I ask you Sir what sort of word is that
加恩我问你先生那是什么词
It's Aoooow and Garn that keep her in her place
是Aooooow和Garn让她保持了原来的状态
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
不是她衣衫褴褛脏兮兮的脸
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak
为什么英国人就不能教他们的孩子说话
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique
这种语言等级的区分现在应该是古董了
If you spoke as she does
如果你像她一样说话
Sir Instead of the way you do
而不是像你一样
Why you might be selling flowers too
为何你也要卖花
I beg your pardon Sir
请你再说一次先生
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
一个英国人说话的方式绝对使他
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him
他一开口就让别的英国人瞧不起他
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
恐怕我们永远无法找到共同语言
Oh why can't the English learn to set
为什么英国人就不能学会
A good example to people whose English is painful to your ears
给那些英语让你听起来痛苦的人一个好例子
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
There even are places where English completely disappears
在有些地方英语完全消失了
In America they haven't used it for years
在美国他们已经多年不用了
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak
为什么英国人就不能教他们的孩子说话
Norwegians learn Norwegian the Greeks are taught their Greek
挪威人学挪威语希腊人学希腊语
In France every Frenchman knows his language from A to Zed
在法国每个法国人都精通自己的语言
The French never care what they do actually
法国人从不在乎他们做了什么
As long as they pronounce it properly
只要他们发音正确
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning
阿拉伯人以夏日闪电的速度学习阿拉伯语
And Hebrews learn it backwards which is absolutely frightening
希伯来人倒背如流真是令人恐惧
But use proper English you're regarded as a freak
但是用正确的英语你会被视为怪物
Oh why can't the English
为什么英国人就不能
Why can't the English learn to speak
为什么英国人就是学不会说话
