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My Fair Lady Script - Dialogue Transcript

Freddy, go and find a cab.

Do you want me to catch pneumonia?

Don't just stand there, Freddy.
Go and find a cab.

All right, I'll get one.

Look where you're goin', dear.
Look where you're goin'!

I'm so sorry.

Two bunches o' violets trod (past tense of tread) in the mud.
A full day's wages.

-Freddy, go and find a cab.
-Yes, Mother.

He's your son, is he?

If you'd done your duty as a mother should...

...you wouldn't let 'im spoil a poor girl's flow'rs and run away without payin'.

Go about your business, my girl.

And you wouldn't go off without payin', either.

Two bunches o' violets trod in the mud.

Sir, is there any sign of it stopping?

I'm afraid not. It's worse than before.

If it's worse, it's a sign it's nearly over.

Cheer up, Capt'n, buy a flow'r off a poor girl.

I'm sorry, I haven't any change.

I can change 'alf a crown. (旧制：五先令)
Take this for tuppence. （两便士）

I told you, I'm awfully sorry.
Wait a minute.

Oh, yes. Here's three ha' pence, if that's any use to you.

Thank you, sir.

You be careful.
Better give 'im a flower for it.

There's a bloke （家伙）here behind that pillar （柱子）...
takin' down every blessed word you're sayin'.

I ain't done nothin' wrong by speakin' to the gentleman.
I've a right to sell flow'rs if I keep off the curb （远离马路沿儿）.
I'm a respectable girl, so help me.
I never spoke to him except to ask him to buy a flow'r off me.

-What's the bloomin' noise?
-A tec's takin' her down.

I'm makin' an honest livin'.

Who's doing all that shouting?

Sir, don't let 'im charge me.
You dunno what it means to me.
They'll take away me character and drive me on the streets...
for speakin' to gentlemen.

There, there. Who's hurting you, you silly girl? What'd you take me for?

On my Bible oath, I never spoke a word.

Shut up! Do I look like a policeman?

Why'd ya take down me words?
'Ow do I know you took me down right?

You just show me what you wrote ab'ut me.

That ain't proper writin'. I can't read it.Why can’t she read it?

I can.

'"I say, Capt'n, now buy a flow'r off a poor girl.'"

Oh, it's cause I called him '"Capt'n.'"
I meant no 'arm. Sir, don't let him lay a charge against me for a word like that.

I'll make no charge.
Really, sir, if you are a detective...
you needn't protect me against molestation （干扰）from young women...
.until I ask you.

Anyone could tell the girl meant no harm.

He ain't no tec. He's a gentleman.
Look at his boots.

How are all your people down at Selsey?

Who told you my people come from Selsey?

Never mind, they do.

How do you come to be up so far east?
You were born in Lisson Grove.

What 'arm is there in my leavin' Lisson Grove?
It weren't fit for pigs to live.
I had to pay four and six a week.

Live where you like but stop that noise!

Come, come, he can't touch you.
You've a right to live where you please.

I'm a good girl, I am.
-Where do I come from?
-Hawkestone.

Who said I didn't?
Blimey （啊呀）, you know everything, you do.

You, sir, do you think you could find me a taxi?

Madam, it's stopped raining.

You can get a motorbus to Hampton Court.
Isn't that where you live?

What impertinence （无理，鲁莽）!

Tell 'im where he comes from,
if you wanta go fortune-telling.

Cheltenham, Harrow...
Cambridge and...
India?

Quite right.

He ain't a tec, he's a bloomin' busybody （爱管闲事的人）.

Do you do this sort of thing for a living at a music hall?

I have thought of it. Perhaps I will one day.

He's no gentleman, he ain't, to interfere with a poor girl!

How do you do it, may I ask?

Simple phonetics. The science of speech.
That's my profession. Also my hobby.

Anyone can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue (土腔)...
but I can place a man within six miles.
I can place 'im within two miles in London.
Sometimes within two streets.

Ought to be ashamed of 'imself, unmanly coward.

-Is there a living in that?
-Oh, yes.

Let him mind his own business and leave a poor girl alone.

Cease this detestable （讨厌的）boohooing （哭闹声） instantly...
or else seek the shelter of some other place of worship!

I have a right to be here if I like, same as you!

A woman who utters such disgusting, depressing noises...
has no right to be anywhere, no right to live.
Remember, you're a human with a soul...
and the divine gift of articulate speech.
Your native language is the language of Shakespeare and...
Milton and the Bible.
Don't sit there crooning （轻哼） like a bilious （暴躁的）pigeon.

'"Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters （贫民库）
'"Condemned by every syllable she utters
'"By right she should be taken out and hung
'"For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue'"

Heavens, what a sound!
'"This is what the British population

'"Calls an elementary education'"

Come, sir, I think you've picked a poor example.
Did I?

'"Hear them down in Soho Square
Dropping H's everywhere

'"Speaking English any way they like

'"Hey, you, sir, did you go to school?

'"What ya tike me for, a fool?

'"No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'

'"Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse
Hear a Cornishman converse
'"I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
'"Chickens cackling in a barn
Just like this one

'"Garn!

'"Garn!
'"I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
'"It's 'aoow' and 'garn' that keep her in her place
'"Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
'"Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
'"This verbal class distinction by now should be antique
'If you spoke as she does, sir, instead of the way you do
'"Why, you might be selling flowers, too'"

I beg your pardon.

'"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies himAccent defines your social status.

'"The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him
'"One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
'"Oh, why can't the English learn to...
'"...set a good example to people whose English is painful to your ears
'"The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears
'"There even are places where English completely disappears
'"Why, in America they haven't used it for years!
'"Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
'"Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek
'"In France every Frenchman knows his language from 'A' to 'Z'
'"The French don't care what they do actually
'"As long as they pronounce it properly
'"Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning
'"The Hebrews learn it backwards which is absolutely frightening
'"Use proper English, you're regarded as a freak
'"Oh, why can't the English
'"Why can't the English learn to speak?'"

Thank you.

See this creature with her curbstone （非专业的）English...
.that'll keep her in the gutter till the end of her days?
In six months I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy Ball.
I could get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...
which requires better English.

What's that you say?

Yes, you squashed （压扁的）cabbage leaf!
You disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns!
You incarnate （体现，使具体化）insult to the English language!
I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba. (基督教《圣经》中朝觐所罗门王以测其智慧的)示巴女王。）

You don't believe that, Capt'n?

Anything's possible.
I, myself, am a student of Indian dialects.

Are you? Do you know Colonel Pickering, the author of Spoken Sanskrit （梵文）?

I am Colonel Pickering Who are you?

I'm Henry Higgins, author of Higgins' Universal Alphabet.

I came from India to meet you!

I was going to India to meet you!

-Where are you staying?
-At the Carleton.

No, you're not.
You're staying at ---A Wimpole Street.

You come with me.
We'll have a little jaw （chat）over supper.

Indian dialects have always fascinated me.

Buy a flower. I'm short for me lodgin'.
Liar!

You said you could change half a crown.

You ought to be stuffed with nails, you ought!
Here, take the whole bloomin' basket for a sixpence!

A reminder.

-How many are there actually?
-How many what?

Indian dialects?

No fewer than distinct languages are recorded as vernacular （方言）in India.

Shouldn't we stand up, gentlemen?
We've got a bloomin' heiress （女继承人） in our midst.

Would you be lookin' for a good butler （男管家）, Eliza?

Well, you won't do.

'"It's rather dull in town I think I'll take me to Paris
'"The missus wants to open up the castle in Capri (卡普里岛)
'"Me doctor recommends a quiet summer by the sea
'"Wouldn't it be loverly?'"

Where are ya bound for this year, Eliza?
Biarritz?

'"All I want is a room somewhere
'"Far away from the cold night air
'"With one enormous chair
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Lots of chocolate for me to eat
'"Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat
'"Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Oh, so loverly sittin'
'"Absobloominlutely still
'"I would never budge till Spring
'"Crept over the winder sill
'"Someone's 'ead restin' on my knee
'"Warm and tender as he can be
'"Who takes good care of me
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"All I want is a room somewhere
'"Far away from the cold night air
'"With one enormous chair
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Lots of chocolate for me to eat

'"Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat
'"Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Oh, so loverly sittin'
'"Absobloominlutely still
'"l would never budge till Spring
'"Crept over the winder sill
'"Someone's 'ead restin' on my knee
'"Warm and tender as he can be
'"Who takes good care of me
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"Loverly
'"Wouldn't it be loverly?'"

Come on, Alfie, let's go 'ome now.
This place is givin' me the willies.

Home? What do you want to go 'ome for?

It's nearly: .
My daughter Eliza'll be along soon.

She ought to be good for 'alf a crown
for a father that loves 'er.
That's a laugh.
You ain't been near 'er for months.

What's that got to do with it?
What's 'alf a crown after all I've give 'er?

When did you ever give 'er anythin'?

Anythin'? I give 'er everythin'.

I give 'er the greatest gift any human being can give to another:

Life!
I introduced 'er to this here planet, I did, with all its wonders and marvels.
The sun that shines, the moon that glows.
Hyde Park to walk through on a fine spring night.
The 'ole ruddy city o' London to roam around in sellin' 'er bloomin' flow'rs.
I give 'er all that.
Then I disappears and leaves 'er on 'er own to enjoy it.
If that ain't worth 'alf a crown now and again...
.I'll take my belt off and give 'er what for.

You got a good 'eart.
But you want a 'alf a crown out o' Eliza...
you better have a good story.
Leave that to me, my boy.

-Good mornin', George.
-Not a brass farthin'. （一个铜板也没有）

Not a brass farthin'.

There she is.

Why, Liza, what a surprise.

Hop along, Charlie, you're too old for me.

-Don't you know your daughter?
-You don't know what she looks like.

I know 'er, I know 'er.
Come on, I'll find 'er.

Eliza, what a surprise.

Not a brass farthin'.

Hey, you come 'ere, Eliza

I ain't gonna take me 'ard-earned wages...
...and let you pass 'em on to a bloody pubkeeper.Which means?

You wouldn't send me 'ome to your stepmother...
without a drop o' liquid protection, would ya?

Stepmother, indeed!

Well, I'm willin' to marry 'er.
It's me that suffers by it.
I'm a slave to that woman, Eliza.
Just because I ain't 'er lawful 'usband.

Come on.

Slip your ol' dad just 'alf a crown to go 'ome on.

Well, I had a bit o' luck meself last night.

But don't keep comin' around countin' on 'alf crowns from me!

Thank you, Eliza. You're a noble daughter.

'"Beer, beer, glorious beer

'"Fill yourself right up'"

See this creature with her curbstone English...
that will keep her in the gutter till the end of her days?
In six months, I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy Ball.
I could get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...
which requires better English.
You disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns!
I could get her a job as a lady's maid or a shop assistant...
which requires better English.

How many vowel sounds did you hear altogether?

I believe I counted .

Wrong by . To be exact you heard

Listen to them one at a time.

Must I? I'm really quite done up for one morning.

Your name, please?

Your name, miss?

My name is of no concern to you whatsoever.

One moment, please.

London is gettin' so dirty these days.

I'm Mrs. Pearce, the housekeeper.
Can I help you?

Good morning, missus.
I'd like to see the professor, please.

Could you tell me what it's about?

It's business of a personal nature.

One moment, please.

-Mr. Higgins?
-What is it, Mrs. Pearce?

There's a young woman who wants to see you, sir.

A young woman?

What does she want?

She's quite a common girl, sir.
Very common indeed.

I should've sent her away, only I thought...
you wanted her to talk into your machine.

-Has she an interesting accent?
-Simply ghastly.

Good. Let's have her in.
Show her in, Mrs. Pearce.