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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 person's English decides his/her position in societyColonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a frien

2、d of 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) topeople's language and watching their (react). While watching, he makes

3、notes. Nearby a 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: I'm sorry I haven't any change.E: I can giv ' ou change, ca

4、p ' in.G: (surprised) For a pound? I'm afraid I've 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) Nowd on't be (trouble), there's a good girl. (looksin hiswallet and sounds more f

5、riendly) But, wait, here's some small change. Will that be anyuse to you? It's raining (heavy) now, isn't 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 b

6、y speaking tothat gentleman.I've a right (sell) flowers, I have. I ain ' t no thief. I'm an honest girlI am! (begins to cry)H: (kindly) There! There! Who's hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me ?(gives her a handkerchief)E: I (think) maybe you was a policeman disguise.H: D

7、o I look like a policeman?E: (still worried) Then why did 'ou take down my words for? How do I know whether 'ou tookme down right? 'ou just show me 'ou've wrote about me!H: Here you are. (hands over the paper covered in writing)E: What's that? That ain't proper writing. I

8、 can't read that. (pushes it back at him)H: I can. (reads imitating Eliza) "Come over' ere, cap'in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl." (inhis own voice) There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if I'm not (mistake).E: (looking confused) What if I was? What's it

9、 to you?CP: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins) That's quite brilliant! How did youdo that, may I ask?H: Simply phonetics studied and classified from people's own speech. That's my profession andalso my hobby. You can place a man by just a few remarks. I can place any

10、(speak)conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes. CP: Let me congratulate you! But is there an income (make) in that?H: Yes, indeed. Quite a good one. This is the age of the newly rich. People begin their workinglife in a poor (neighbor) of London with 80 pounds

11、a year and endin a richone with 100 thousand. But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths. Nowonce (teach) by me, she'd become an upper class lady .CP: Is that so? Extraordinary!H: (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible English: the English that will condemn her to thegutt

12、er 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 ambassador's garden party. Perhaps I could even find her a place as a lady's maid or a shop assistant, requires better English.E: What's that you s

13、ay? A shop assistant? Now that's 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, that is me. Who are you?H: I'm Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet

14、 you.CP: And I came to England to make (you) acquaintance!E: What about me? How'll 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: (looking at the collected money in amazement) Well, I never. A whole

15、pound! A fortune!That'll help me, indeed it will. Tomorrow I'll find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see!All that talk of (imitates him) "authentic English" . (in her own voice) I'll see you can get that for me . (goes out)Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BETIt is 11am in Henr

16、y 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 and thirty beat me. I can't disting

17、uish 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: Well, she's quite a common kind

18、 of girl with dirty nails. I thought perhaps you (want) her to talk into your machines.H: Why? Has she got an interestingaccent? We'll see. Show her, Mrs Pearce.MP: (only half resigned to it) Very well, sir. (goes downstairs)H: This is a bit of luck. I'll show you how I make records on wax d

19、isks .MP: (returning) This is the young girl, sir. (Eliza comes into the room shyly following MrsPearce. She is dirty and (wear) ashabby dress. She curtsies to thetwo men.)H: (disappointed) Why! I've got this girl in my records. She's the one we saw the other day. She'sno use at all. Tak

20、e her away.CP: (gently to Eliza) What do you-want, young lady?E: (upset) I wanna be a lady in a flower shop 'stead o' selling flowers in the street. But they won'ttake me' less I speak better. here I am, ready to pay him. I'm not askingfor anyfavours and he treats me like dirt.H:

21、 How much?E: (happier) Now yer talking. A lady friend of (me) gets French lessonsfor twoshillings an hour from a real Frenchman. You wouldn't have the face to ask me for the samefor teaching me as yer would for French. So I won't give yer more than a shilling.H: (ignoring Eliza and speaking

22、to Pickering) If you think of how much money this girl has why, it's the best offer I've had! (to Eliza) But if I teach you, I'll be(bad) than afather.CP: I say, Higgins. Do you remember you said last night? I'll say you'rethe greatestteacher alive if you can pass her off as a la

23、dy. I'll be the referee for this little bet and pay the lessons too .E: (gratefully) Oh, yer real good, yer are. Thank you, Colonel.H: Oh, she is so deliciously low. (compromises) OK, I'll teach you. (to Mrs Pearce) But she'llneed (clean) first. Take her away, Mrs Pearce. Wash her and bu

24、rnher horribleclothes. We'll buy her new ones. What's your name, girl?E: I'm Eliza Doolittle and I'm 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, you'll have to do the same. They won't like the smell of you otherwise.E: (sobbing) I can't. I dursn't. It ain't natural and it'd kill me. I've never had a bath in my l