Unit 4 Pygmalion 第四单元 皮格马利翁
Reading
PYGMALION
chine manMAIN CHARACTERS:
Eliza Doolittle (E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herlf
Professor Higgins (H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person's English decides his/her position in society
Colonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins' who ts him a task
Act One FATEFUL MEETINGS
傅滢 11 :15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre. It is pouring with rain and cab w
show mehistles are blowing in all directions. A man is hiding from the rain listening to people's language and watching their reactions. While watching, he makes notes. Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a woollen scarf is also sheltering from the rain. A gentleman (G) pass and hesitates for a moment.
E: Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.
G: I'm sorry but I haven't any change.
E: I can giv’ou change, cap’in.
G: (surprid) 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 troublesome, there's a good girl. (looks in his wallet and sounds more friendly) But, wait, here's some small change. Will that be of any u to you? It's raining heavily now, isn't it? (leaves)
归纳拓展
(1)介词of后面接表抽象意义的名词，如：value， u， help， importance， significance等，相当于该名词相对应的形容词。该名词前面可以用表程度的词加以修饰，如：little， no， great， much， some等。
(2)介词of后面还可接一些表示人或物的属性的名词，如：size， color， height， length， age， shape， quality等，用来描述人或事物的属性，在句中作表语或后置定语。
语境助记
①The dictionary will be_of_great_value to middle school students.
＝The dictionary will be very valuable to middle school students.
这本字典对中学生将会非常有价值。
②The two rooms are the same in size.精品小班
＝The two rooms are of_the_same_nihosize.
这两个房间大小一样。
③The Nobel Prize is very important to Chine literature.
＝The Nobel Prize is of_great_importance_to Chine literature.
这项诺贝尔奖对中国的文学很重要。
④Australia and New Zealand are_of_the_samerona_continent.
澳大利亚和新西兰属同一个洲。
E: (disappointed at the outcome, but thinking it is better than nothing) Thank you, sir. (es a man taking notes and feels worried) Hey! I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I've a right to ll flowers, I have. I ain’t no thief. I'm an honest girl I am! (begins to cry)
H: (kindly) There! There! Who's hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me for? (gives her a handkerchief)
E: I thought maybe you was a policeman in disgui.
H: Do I look like a policeman?
E: (still worried) Then why did 'ou take down my words for? How do I know whether 'ou took me down right? 'ou just show me what 'ou've wrote about me!
smallH: Here you are. (hands over the paper covered in writing)
E: What's that? That ain't proper writing. I 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." (in his own voice) There you are and you were born
in Lisson Grove if I'm not mistaken.
E: (looking confud) What if I was? What's it to you?
what if 句型
？常用来提出假设、建议、邀请、要求等，意为“倘使……将会怎样？”、“如果……将会怎样？”。后面经常跟一般现在时，有时根据语境也可以跟虚拟语气。
少儿英语培训
语境助记
①[牛津高阶]What_if the train is late?
火车要是晚点会怎么样呢？
②Why_not play soccer with us?
basket
为什么不和我们一起踢足球呢？
③If she spent five years in Paris, how_come her French is so bad?
既然她在巴黎待了五年，她的法语怎么还会这样糟糕？
④—He is fifteen years younger than you.
—Sosubtlety_what?
——他比你小十五岁。
——那又怎么样？
CP: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins) That's quite brilliant! How did you do that, may I ask?
H: Simply phonetics studied and classified from people's own speech. That's my profession and also my hobby. You can place a man by just a few remarks. I can place an
y spoken conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.
CP: Let me congratulate you! But is there an income to be made in that?
H: Yes, indeed. Quite a good one. This is the age of the newly rich. People begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand. But they betray themlves every time they open their mouths. Now once taught by me, she'd become an upper class lady ...
