笨小笨Overture - Why Can’t the English?歌词由Julie Andrews演唱，出自专辑《Oldies Selection: Gold Collection Vol.2》，下面是《Overture - Why Can’t the English?》完整版歌词！
Overture - Why Can’t the English?歌词完整版
Overture - Why Can't the English? - Julie Andrews
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Look at her a prisoner of the gutter
看看她我就像贫民窟的囚犯
Condemned by every syllable she utters
她说的每一个字都在谴责我
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
Aaoooww
啊
Heavens what a noise
天啊多么嘈杂的声音
This is what the British population
这就是英国人口
Calls an elementary education
所谓的基础教育
Come sir I think you picked a poor example
来吧先生我觉得你举了一个很差的例子
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
到处都是字母H
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付出
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 here
就像这张
Garn
加恩
I ask you sir what sort of word is that
我问你先生那是什么词
It's "Aaoooww" and
这是一首歌
"Garn" that keep her in her place
让她寸步难行
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
为什么英语不会教
Their children how to speak
他们的孩子该如何开口
This verbal class distinction by now
语言阶级的差别
Should be antique
应该是古董级别的
If you spoke as she does sir
如果你像她一样说话先生
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
请你再说一次
An Englishman's way of
一个英国人
Speaking absolutely classifies him
说话绝对让他名垂青史
The moment he talks he
他开口的那一刻
Makes some other Englishman despise him
让别的英国人看不起他
One common language
共同语言
I'm afraid we'll never get
我害怕我们永远得不到
Oh why can't the English learn to
为什么英国人就学不会
Set a good example to people whose
给那些
English is painful to your ears
英语让你耳朵痛
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
苏格兰人和爱尔兰人让你潸然泪下
There even are places where
有些地方
English completely disappears
英语彻底消失
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
为什么英语不会教
Their children how to speak
他们的孩子该如何开口
Norwegians learn Norwegian
挪威人学习挪威语
The Greeks are taught their Greek
希腊人接受希腊语教育
In France every Frenchman
在法国每个法国人
Knows his language from "A" to "Zed"
对他的语言了如指掌
The French never care what they do
法国人从不在乎他们做了什么
Actually as long as they pronounce it properly
其实只要他们发音正确就好了
Arabians learn Arabian with
阿拉伯人学习阿拉伯语
The speed of summer lightning
夏日闪电的速度
The Hebrews learn it backwards
希伯来人倒背如流
Which is absolutely frightening
真是令人恐惧
But use proper English
但是要用正确的英语
And you're regarded as a freak
你被视为怪物
Why can't the English
为什么英国人就不能
Why can't the English learn
为什么英国人就是学不会
To Speak
吐露心声
