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1、PYGMALIONMAIN CHARACTERS:Eliza Doolittle (E): a poor flower girl who is (ambition) to improveherself Professor Higgins (H): an expert in phonetics, (convince)that the quality of a persons English decides his/her position in societyColonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a friend of

2、Higgins who sets him a taskAct One FATEFUL MEETINGS11:15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre. It is pouring with rain and cab whistles are blowing all directions. A man is hiding from the rain(listen) topeoples language and watching their (react). While watching, he makes notes. Nearby a

3、 flower girl wearing dark garments and a (wool) scarf is also sheltering from the rain. A gentleman (G) passes and hesitates for a moment.E: Come over ere, cap in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.G: Im sorry I havent any change.E: I can giv ou change, cap in.G: (surprised) For a pound? Im afraid

4、Ive got nothing less.E: (hopefully) Oah! Oh, do buy a flower off me, Captain. Take this for three pence. (holds up some dead flowers)G: (uncomfortably) Nowdont be (trouble), theres a good girl. (looksin hiswallet and sounds more friendly) But, wait, heres some small change. Will that be anyuse to yo

5、u? Its raining (heavy) now, isnt it? (leaves)E: (disappointed at the outcome, but thinking it is better than nothing) Thank you, sir. (sees a mantaking notes and feels worried) Hey! I ain t done nothing wrong by speaking tothat gentleman.Ive a right (sell) flowers, I have. I ain t no thief. Im an ho

6、nest girlI am! (begins to cry)H: (kindly) There! There! Whos hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me ?(gives her a handkerchief)E: I(thi nk) maybe you was a policema ndisguise.H: Do I look like a policema n?E: (still worried) Then why did ou take down my words for? How do I know whetherou t

7、ookme dow n right? ou just show meouve wrote about me!H: Here you are. (ha nds over the paper covered in writi ng)E: Whats that? That aint proper writing. I cant read that. (pushes it back athim)H: I can. (reads imitating Eliza) Come over ere, capin, and buy me flowers offa poor girl. (inhis own voi

8、ce) There you are and you were born in Liss on Grove if Im not (mistake).E: (looki ng con fused) What if I was? Whats it to you?CP: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins) Thats quite brilliant!How did youdo that, may I ask?H: Simply phon etics studied and classified from peoples own

9、speech. Thats myprofessi on andalso my hobby. You can place a manby just a few remarks. I can place any(speak)conversationwithin six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.CP: Let mecon gratulate you! But is there an in come(make) in that?H: Yes, in deed. Quite a good one. This is th

10、e age of the n ewly rich. People begi n their work inglife in a poor (neighbor) of London with 80 pounds a year and endin a richone with 100 thousand. But they betray themselves every time they open theirmouths. Nowonce(teach) by me, shed become an upper class lady .CP: Is that so? Extraordi nary!H:

11、 (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible En glish: the En glish that will condemn her to thegutter to the end of her days. But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly,that girl could pass(her) off in three months as a duchess at ambassadors garden party. Perhaps I could even find her a

12、place as a ladys maid or a shop assistant, requires better English.E: Whats that you say? A shop assistant? Now thats sommat I want, that is!H: (ignores her) Can you believe that?CP: Of course! I study many Indian dialects myself and .H: Do you indeed? Do you know Colonel Pickering?CP: Indeed I do,

13、that is me. Who are you?H: Im Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet you.CP: And I came to England to make (you) acquaintance!E: What about me? Howll you help me?H: Oh, take that. (carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket) We must have acelebration, my dear man. (leave together)E

14、: (looking at the collected money in amazement) Well, I never. A whole pound! A fortune!Thatll help me, indeed it will. Tomorrow Ill find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see!All that talk of (imitates him) authentic English . (in her own voice) Ill see you can get that for me . (goes out)Act T

15、wo, Scene 1 MAKING THE BETIt is 11am in Henry Higgins house the next day. Henry Higgins and ColonelPickering are sitting deep conversation.H: Do you want to hear any more sounds?CP: No, thank you. I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowelsounds; but your one hundred

16、and thirty beat me. I cant distinguish most of them.H: (laughing) Well, that comes with practice.There is a knock and Mrs Pearce (MP), the housekeeper, comes in with cookies, a teapot,some cream and two cups.MP: (hesitating) A young girl is asking to see you.H: A young girl! What does she want?MP: W

17、ell, shes quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails. I thought perhaps you (want) her to talk into your machines.H: Why?Has she got an interesting accent? Well see. Show her, Mrs Pearce.MP: (only half resigned to it) Very well, sir. (goes downstairs)H: This is a bit of luck. Ill show you how I ma

18、ke records on wax disks .MP: (returning) This is the young girl, sir. (Eliza comes into the room shyly following MrsPearce. She is dirty and (wear) a shabby dress. She curtsies to thetwo men.)H: (disappointed) Why! Ive got this girl in my records. Shes the one we saw the other day. Shesno use at all

19、. Take her away.CP: (gently to Eliza) What do you-want, young lady?E: (upset) I wannabe a lady in a flower shop stead o selling flowers in the street. But they wonttake meless I speak better. here I am, ready to pay him. Im not askingfor anyfavours and he treats me like dirt.H: How much?E: (happier)

20、 Now yer talking. A lady friend of (me) gets French lessonsfor twoshillings an hour from a real Frenchman. You wouldnt have the face to ask mefor the samefor teaching me as yer would for French. So I wont give yer more than a shilling.H: (ignoring Eliza and speaking to Pickering) If you think of how

21、 much money this girl has -why, its the best offer Ive had! (to Eliza) But if I teach you, Ill be(bad) than afather.CP: I say, Higgins. Do you remember you said last night? Ill say yourethe greatestteacher alive if you can pass her off as a lady. Ill be the referee for this little bet and pay the le

22、ssons too .E: (gratefully) Oh, yer real good, yer are. Thank you, Colonel.H: Oh, she is so deliciously low. (compromises) OK, Ill teach you. (to Mrs Pearce) But shellneed (clean) first. Take her away, Mrs Pearce. Wash her and burnher horribleclothes. Well buy her new ones. Whats your name, girl?E: I

23、m Eliza Doolittle and Im clean. My clothes went to the laundry Iwashed last week.MP: Well, Mr Higgins has a bathtub of his own and he has a bath every morning.If these twogentlemen teach you, youll have to do the same. They wont like the smell of you otherwise.E: (sobbing) I cant. I dursnt. It aint natural and itd kill me. Ive never had a bath in my life; no