笨小笨Why Can’t the English?歌词由Rex Harrison&Franz Allers演唱，出自专辑《My Funny Valentine》，下面是《Why Can’t the English?》完整版歌词！
Why Can’t the English?歌词完整版
Why Can't the English? (From " My Fair Lady") - Rex Harrison/Franz Allers
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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 ever uttered
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
Heaven's What a noise
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
Counsel I think you picked a poor example
律师我觉得你举的例子不太好
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 his everywhere
到处都是枪
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 like me for a fool
像我这样的傻瓜
No one taught him take instead of like
没人教会他索取而不是喜欢
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 quite singing flat
我宁愿听一首动听的乐曲
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
I ask you sir
我请求你先生
What sort of word is that
那是什么词
It's Aoooow and Garn
这是Aooow和Garn的歌
That keep her in her place
让她安于现状
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
语言阶级的差别
By now should be antique
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
先生而不是像你一样
Why you might be selling flowers too
为何你也要卖花
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 makes some other
他开口的那一刻他就做出了另一种选择
Englishman despise him
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 set
为什么英国人就不能学会
A good example to people whose
给那些
English is painful to your ears
英语让你耳朵痛
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
有些地方
Where English completely
那里的英语完全
Disappears
消失得无影无踪
In America
在美国
They haven't used it for years
他们已经好几年没用了
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 have taught their Greek
希腊人教授他们的希腊语
In France every Frenchman knows
在法国每个法国人都知道
His language made to Zed
他的语言对Zed产生了影响
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 in properly
只要他们的发音准确
Arabians learn Arabian
阿拉伯人学习阿拉伯语
With the speed of summer lightning
以夏日闪电的速度
And 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
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 to speak
为什么英国人就是学不会说话
