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) to people'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, cap'

4、;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) Now don't be (trouble), there's a good girl. (looksin hiswallet and sounds more friendly

5、) 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 by speaki

6、ng to that 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: Do I look

7、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 can'

8、t read that. (pushes it back at him)H: I can. (reads imitating Eliza) Come over' ere, cap'in, and buy me flowers offa poor girl. (inhis own voice) There you are and you were bor n in Liss on Grove if I'm not(mistake).E: (looki ng con fused) What if I was? What's it to you?CP: (has be

9、e n watch ing the girl and now speaks to Higg ins) That's quite brillia nt!How did youdo that, may I ask?H: Simply pho netics studied and classified from people's own speech. That's my professi on andalso my hobby. You can place a man by just a few remarks. I can place any(speak)con vers

10、ati on withi n six miles, and eve n with in two streets in London sometimes.CP: Let me con gratulate you! But is there an in come(make) in that?H: Yes, in deed. Quite a good one. This is the age of the n ewly rich. People begi n their work inglife in a poor(n eighbor) of London with 80 pou nds a yea

11、r and endin a richone with 100 thousa nd. But they betray themselves every time they ope n their mouths. Nowonce(teach) by me, she'd become an upper class lady .CP: Is that so? Extraord in ary!H: (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible En glish: the En glish that willcondemn her to theprope

12、rly,speak to educated once (proudly) sir, But, days. her of end the to gutterthat girl could pass(her) off in three mon ths as a duchess atambassador's garde n party. Perhaps I could eve n find her a place as a lady's maid or a shop assista nt,requires better En glish.E: What's that you

13、say? A shop assista nt? Now that's sommat I want, that is!H: (ig no res her) Can you believe that?CP: Of course! I study many In dia n dialects myself and .H: Do you in deed? Do you know Colonel Pickeri ng?CP: I ndeed I do,that is me. Who are you?H: I'm Henry Higg ins and I was going to In d

14、ia to meet you.CP: And I came to En gla nd to make(you) acqua intan ce!E: What about me? How'll you help me?H: Oh, take that. (carelessly throws a han dful of money into her basket) We must have acelebrati on, my dear man. (leave together)E: (look ing at the collected money in amazeme nt) Well,

15、I n ever. A whole pou nd! A fortu ne!That'll help me, in deed it will. Tomorrow I'll find you, Henry Higgi ns. Just youwait and see!All that talk of (imitates him) authe ntic En glish . (in her own voice) rllsee you can get that for me . (goes out)Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BETIt is 11am in

16、 Henry Higgins' house the next day. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering 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 d

17、istinguish 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 commo

18、n 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? 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 o

19、n 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! I've got this girl in my records. She's the one we saw the other day. She'sno use at

20、all. Take 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 li

21、ke dirt.H: 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 mefor the samefor teaching me as yer would for French. So I won't give yer more than a shilling.H: (ignoring Eliza and

22、speaking 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 befather.(bad) than ayou'resay I'll night? last said you remember you Do Higgins. say, I CP:the greatestteacher alive if you can pass her of

23、f as a lady. 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 h

24、er and burnher 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 li