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高中英语Unit4 Pygmalion(3)

Unit4 Pygmalion(3)ACT IIIIt is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension. The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots. If you stand with your face to the windows, you have the fireplace on your left and the door in the right-hand wall close to the corner nearest the windows.Mrs. Higgins was brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; and her room, which is very unlike her son's room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little tables and nicknacks. In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things. A few good oil-paintings from the exhibitions in the Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls. The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens. There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand. There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side. At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones. On the same side a piano in a decorated case. The corner between the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz.It is between four and five in the afternoon.The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his hat on.MRS. HIGGINS [dismayed] Henry [scolding him]! What are you doing here to-day? It is myat-home day: you promised not to come. [As he bends to kiss her, she takes his hat off, and presents it to him].HIGGINS. Oh bother! [He throws the hat down on the table].MRS. HIGGINS. Go home at once.HIGGINS [kissing her] I know, mother. I came on purpose.MRS. HIGGINS. But you mustnt. I'm serious, Henry. You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.HIGGINS. Nonsense! I know I have no small talk; but people dont mind. [He sits on the settee].MRS. HIGGINS. Oh! dont they? Small talk indeed! What about your large talk? Really, dear, you mustnt stay.HIGGINS. I must. Ive a job for you. A phonetic job.MRS. HIGGINS. No use, dear. I'm sorry; but I cant get round your vowels; and though I like to get pretty postcards in your patent shorthand, I always have to read the copies in ordinary writing you so thoughtfully send me.HIGGINS. Well, this isnt a phonetic job.MRS. HIGGINS. You said it was.HIGGINS. Not your part of it. Ive picked up a girl.MRS. HIGGINS. Does that mean that some girl has picked you up?HIGGINS. Not at all. I dont mean a love affair.MRS. HIGGINS. What a pity!HIGGINS. Why?MRS. HIGGINS. Well, you never fall in love with anyone under forty-five. When will you discover that there are some rather nice-looking young women about?HIGGINS. Oh, I cant be bothered with young women. My idea of a loveable woman is something as like you as possible. I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed. [Rising abruptly and walking about, jingling his money and his keys in his trouser pockets] Besides, theyre all idiots.MRS. HIGGINS. Do you know what you would do if you really loved me, Henry?HIGGINS. Oh bother! What? Marry, I suppose?MRS. HIGGINS. No. Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets. [With a gesture of despair, he obeys and sits down again]. Thats a good boy. Now tell me about the girl.HIGGINS. She coming to see you.MRS. HIGGINS. I dont remember asking her.HIGGINS. You didnt. I asked her. If youd known her you wouldnt have asked her.MRS. HIGGINS. Indeed! Why?HIGGINS. Well, it's like this. Shes a common flower girl. I picked her off the kerbstone.MRS. HIGGINS. And invited her to my at-home!HIGGINS [rising and coming to her to coax her] Oh, thatll be all right. Ive taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior. Shes to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody's health—Fine day and How do you do, you know—and not to let herself go on things in general. That will be safe.MRS. HIGGINS. Safe! To talk about our health! about our insides! perhaps about our outsides! How could you be so silly, Henry?HIGGINS [impatiently] Well, she must talk about something. [He controls himself and sits down again]. Oh, she'll be all right: dont you fuss. Pickering is in it with me. Ive a sort of bet on that I'll pass her off as a duchess in six months. I started on her some months ago; and shes getting on like a house on fire. I shall win my bet. She has a quick ear; and shes been easier to teach than my middle-class pupils because shes had to learn a complete new language. She talks English almost as you talk French.MRS. HIGGINS. Thats satisfactory, at all events.HIGGINS. Well, it is and it isnt.MRS. HIGGINS. What does that mean?HIGGINS. You see, Ive got her pronunciation all right; but you have to consider not only how a girl pronounces, but what she pronounces; and thats where—They are interrupted by the parlor-maid, announcing guests.THE PARLOR-MAID. Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill. [She withdraws].HIGGINS. Oh Lord! [He rises; snatches his hat from the table; and makes for the door; but before he reaches it his mother introduces him].Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden. The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means. The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] How do you do? [They shake hands].MISS EYNSFORD HILL. How d'you do? [She shakes].MRS. HIGGINS [introducing] My son Henry.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Your celebrated son! I have so longed to meet you, Professor Higgins.HIGGINS [glumly, making no movement in her direction] Delighted. [He backs against the piano and bows brusquely].MISS EYNSFORD HILL [going to him with confident familiarity] How do you do?HIGGINS [staring at her] Ive seen you before somewhere. I havnt the ghost of a notion where; but Ive heard your voice. [Drearily] It doesnt matter. Youd better sit down.MRS. HIGGINS. I'm sorry to say that my celebrated son has no manners. You mustnt mind him.MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] I dont. [She sits in the Elizabethan chair].MISS EYNSFORD HILL [a little bewildered] Not at all. [She sits on the ottoman between her daughter and Mrs. Higgins, who has turned her chair away from the writing-table].HIGGINS. Oh, have I been rude? I didnt mean to be.He goes to the central window, through which, with his back to the company, he contemplates the river and the flowers in Battersea Park on the opposite bank as if they were a frozen desert.The parlor-maid returns, ushering in Pickering.THE PARLOR-MAID. Colonel Pickering [She withdraws].PICKERING. How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?MRS. HIGGINS. So glad youve come. Do you know Mrs. Eynsford Hill—Miss Eynsford Hill? [Exchange of bows. The Colonel brings the Chippendale chair a little forward between Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Higgins, and sits down].PICKERING. Has Henry told you what weve come for?HIGGINS [over his shoulder] We were interrupted: damn it!MRS. HIGGINS. Oh Henry, Henry, really!MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [half rising] Are we in the way?MRS. HIGGINS [rising and making her sit down again] No, no. You couldnt have come more fortunately: we want you to meet a friend of ours.HIGGINS [turning hopefully] Yes, by George! We want two or three people. Youll do as well as anybody else.The parlor-maid returns, ushering Freddy.THE PARLOR-MAID. Mr. Eynsford Hill.HIGGINS [almost audibly, past endurance] God of Heaven! another of them.FREDDY [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo?MRS. HIGGINS. Very good of you to come. [Introducing] Colonel Pickering.FREDDY [bowing] Ahdedo?MRS. HIGGINS. I dont think you know my son, Professor Higgins.FREDDY [going to Higgins] Ahdedo?HIGGINS [looking at him much as if he were a pickpocket] I'll take my oath Ive met you before somewhere. Where was it?FREDDY. I dont think so.HIGGINS [resignedly] It dont matter, anyhow. Sit down.He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.HIGGINS. Well, here we are, anyhow! [He sits down on the ottoman next Mrs. Eynsford Hill, on her left]. And now, what the devil are we going to talk about until Eliza comes?MRS. HIGGINS. Henry: you are the life and soul of the Royal Society's soirées; but really youre rather trying on more commonplace occasions.HIGGINS. Am I? Very sorry. [Beaming suddenly] I suppose I am, you know. [Uproariously] Ha, ha!MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize. I havnt any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think!HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid!MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [taking up her daughter's cue] But why?HIGGINS. What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] Is it so very cynical?HIGGINS. Cynical! Who the dickens said it was cynical? I mean it wouldnt be decent.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [seriously] Oh! I'm sure you dont mean that, Mr. Higgins.HIGGINS. You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? [To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry? [To Mrs. Hill] What do you know of science? [Indicating Freddy] What does he know of art or science or anything else? What the devil do you imagine I know of philosophy?MRS. HIGGINS [warningly] Or of manners, Henry?THE PARLOR-MAID [opening the door] Miss Doolittle. [She withdraws].HIGGINS [rising hastily and running to Mrs. Higgins] Here she is, mother. [He stands on tiptoe and makes signs over his mother's head to Eliza to indicate to her which lady is her hostess].Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she enters that they all rise, quite fluttered. Guided by Higgins's signals, she comes to Mrs. Higgins with studied grace.LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins? [She gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins, but is quite successful]. Mr. Higgins told me I might come.MRS. HIGGINS [cordially] Quite right: I'm very glad indeed to see you.PICKERING. How do you do, Miss Doolittle?LIZA [shaking hands with him] Colonel Pickering, is it not?MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I feel sure we have met before, Miss Doolittle. I remember your eyes.LIZA. How do you do? [She sits down on the ottoman gracefully in the place just left vacant by Higgins].MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My daughter Clara.LIZA. How do you do?CLARA [impulsively] How do you do? [She sits down on the ottoman beside Eliza, devouring her with her eyes].FREDDY [coming to their side of the ottoman] Ive certainly had the pleasure.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My son Freddy.LIZA. How do you do?Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all comes back to me! [They stare at him]. Covent Garden! [Lamentably] What a damned thing!MRS. HIGGINS. Henry, please! [He is about to sit on the edge of the table]. Dont sit on my writing-table: youll break it.HIGGINS [sulkily] Sorry.He goes to the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey by throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it. Mrs. Higgins looks at him, but controls herself and says nothing.A long and painful pause ensues.MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.FREDDY. Ha! ha! how awfully funny!LIZA. What is wrong with that, young man? I bet I got it right.FREDDY. Killing!MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I'm sure I hope it wont turn cold. Theres so much influenza about. It runs right through our whole family regularly every spring.LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [clicks her tongue sympathetically]!!!LIZA [in the same tragic tone] But it's my belief they done the old woman in.MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?LIZA. Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza? She come through diphtheria right enough the year before. I saw her with my own eyes. Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dear me!LIZA [piling up the indictment] What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? What become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. What does doing her in mean?HIGGINS [hastily] Oh, thats the new small talk. To do a person in means to kill them.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Eliza, horrified] You surely dont believe that your aunt was killed?LIZA. Do I not! Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. But it cant have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her.LIZA. Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Do you mean that he drank?LIZA. Drank! My word! Something chronic.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. How dreadful for you!LIZA. Not a bit. It never did him no harm what I could see. But then he did not keep it up regular. [Cheerfully] On the burst, as you might say, from time to time. And always more agreeable when he had a drop in. When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like. Theres lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. [Now quite at her ease] You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy. [To Freddy, who is in convulsions of suppressed laughter] Here! what are you sniggering at?FREDDY. The new small talk. You do it so awfully well.LIZA. If I was doing it proper, what was you laughing at? [To Higgins] Have I said anything I oughtnt?MRS. HIGGINS [interposing] Not at all, Miss Doolittle.LIZA. Well, thats a mercy, anyhow. [Expansively] What I always say is—HIGGINS [rising and looking at his watch] Ahem!LIZA [looking round at him; taking the hint; and rising] Well: I must go. [They all rise. Freddy goes to the door]. So pleased to have met you. Good-bye. [She shakes hands with Mrs. Higgins].MRS. HIGGINS. Good-bye.LIZA. Good-bye, Colonel Pickering.PICKERING. Good-bye, Miss Doolittle. [They shake hands].LIZA [nodding to the others] Good-bye, all.FREDDY [opening the door for her] Are you walking across the Park, Miss Doolittle? If so—LIZA. Walk! Not bloody likely. [Sensation]. I am going in a taxi. [She goes out].Pickering gasps and sits down. Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [suffering from shock] Well, I really cant get used to the new ways.CLARA [throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair]. Oh, it's all right, mamma, quite right. People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you wont begin using that expression, Clara. I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unlady-like. But this last is really too much. Dont you think so, Colonel Pickering?PICKERING. Dont ask me. Ive been away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes dont know whether I'm at a respectable dinner-table or in a ship's forecastle.CLARA. It's all a matter of habit. Theres no right or wrong in it. Nobody means anything by it. And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty. I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [rising] Well, after that, I think it's time for us to go.Pickering and Higgins rise.CLARA [rising] Oh yes: we have three at-homes to go to still. Good-bye, Mrs. Higgins. Good-bye, Colonel Pickering. Good-bye, Professor Higgins.HIGGINS [coming grimly at her from the divan, and accompanying her to the door] Good-bye. Be sure you try on that small talk at the three at-homes. Dont be nervous about it. Pitch it in strong.CLARA [all smiles] I will. Good-bye. Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery!HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense!CLARA. Such bloody nonsense!MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [convulsively] Clara!CLARA. Ha! ha! [She goes out radiant, conscious of being thoroughly up to date, and is heard descending the stairs in a stream of silvery laughter].FREDDY [to the heavens at large] Well, I ask you— [He gives it up, and comes to Mrs. Higgins]. Good-bye.MRS. HIGGINS. [shaking hands] Good-bye. Would you like to meet Miss Doolittle again?FREDDY [eagerly] Yes, I should, most awfully.MRS. HIGGINS. Well, you know my days.FREDDY. Yes. Thanks awfully. Good-bye. [He goes out].MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Good-bye, Mr. Higgins.HIGGINS. Good-bye. Good-bye.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Pickering] It's no use. I shall never be able to bring myself to use that word.PICKERING. Dont. It's not compulsory, you know. Youll get on quite well without it.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang. Good-bye.PICKERING. Good-bye [They shake hands].MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] You mustnt mind Clara. [Pickering, catching from her lowered tone that this is not meant for him to hear, discreetly joins Higgins at the window]. We're so poor! and she gets so few parties, poor child! She doesnt quite know. [Mrs. Higgins, seeing that her eyes are moist, takes her hand sympathetically and goes with her to the door]. But the boy is nice. Dont you think so?MRS. HIGGINS. Oh, quite nice. I shall always be delighted to see him.MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Thank you, dear. Good-bye. [She goes out].HIGGINS [eagerly] Well? Is Eliza presentable [he swoops on his mother and drags her to the ottoman, where she sits down in Eliza's place with her son on her left]?Pickering returns to his chair on her right.MRS. HIGGINS. You silly boy, of course shes not presentable. Shes a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesnt give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her.PICKERING. But dont you think something might be done? I mean something to eliminate the sanguinary element from her conversation.MRS. HIGGINS. Not as long as she is in Henry's hands.HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS. HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper—say on a canal barge; but it would not be proper for her at a garden party.HIGGINS [deeply injured] Well I must say—PICKERING [interrupting him] Come, Higgins: you must learn to know yourself. I havnt heard such language as yours since we used to review the volunteers in Hyde Park twenty years ago.HIGGINS [sulkily] Oh, well, if you say so, I suppose I dont always talk like a bishop.MRS. HIGGINS [quieting Henry with a touch] Colonel Pickering: will you tell me what is the exact state of things in Wimpole Street?PICKERING [cheerfully: as if this completely changed the subject] Well, I have come to live there with Henry. We work together at my Indian Dialects; and we think it more convenient—MRS. HIGGINS. Quite so. I know all about that: it's an excellent arrangement. But where does this girl live?HIGGINS. With us, of course. Where would she live?MRS. HIGGINS. But on what terms? Is she a servant? If not, what is she?PICKERING [slowly] I think I know what you mean, Mrs. Higgins.HIGGINS. Well, dash me if I do! Ive had to work at the girl every day for months to get her to her present pitch. Besides, shes useful. She knows where my things are, and remembers my appointments and so forth.MRS. HIGGINS. How does your housekeeper get on with her?HIGGINS. Mrs. Pearce? Oh, shes jolly glad to get so much taken off her hands; for before Eliza came, she used to have to find things and remind me of my appointments. But shes got some silly bee in her bonnet about Eliza. She keeps saying "You dont think, sir": doesnt she, Pick?PICKERING. Yes: thats the formula. "You dont think, sir." Thats the end of every conversation about Eliza.HIGGINS. As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants. I'm worn out, thinking about her, and watching her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which is the quaintest of the lot.MRS. HIGGINS. You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.HIGGINS. Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.PICKERING [drawing his chair closer to Mrs. Higgins and bending over to her eagerly] Yes: it's enormously interesting. I assure you, Mrs. Higgins, we take Eliza very seriously. Every week—every day almost—there is some new change. [Closer again] We keep records of every stage—dozens of gramophone disks and photographs—HIGGINS [assailing her at the other ear] Yes, by George: it's the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled. She regularly fills our lives up; doesnt she, Pick?PICKERING. We're always talking Eliza.HIGGINS. Teaching Eliza.PICKERING. Dressing Eliza.MRS. HIGGINS. What!HIGGINS. Inventing new Elizas.HIGGINS. [speaking together] You know, she has the most extraordinary quickness of ear: PICKERING.I assure you, my dear Mrs. Higgins, that girlHIGGINS.just like a parrot. Ive tried her with everPICKERING.is a genius. She can play the piano quite beautifully.HIGGINS.possible sort of sound that a human being can make—PICKERING.We have taken her to classical concerts and to musicHIGGINSContinental dialects, African dialects, HottentotPICKERING.halls; and its all the same to her: she plays everythingHIGGINS.clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; andPICKERING.she hears right off when she comes home, whether it'sHIGGINS.she picks them up like a shot, right away, as if she hadPICKERING.Beethoven and Brahms or Lehar and Lionel Monckton;HIGGINS.been at it all her life.PICKERING.though six months ago, she'd never as much as touched a piano—MRS. HIGGINS [putting her fingers in her ears, as they are by this time shouting one another down with an intolerable noise] Sh-sh-sh—sh! [They stop].PICKERING. I beg your pardon. [He draws his chair back apologetically].HIGGINS. Sorry. When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in edgeways.MRS. HIGGINS. Be quiet, Henry. Colonel Pickering: dont you realize that when Eliza walked into Wimpole Street, something walked in with her?PICKERING. Her father did. But Henry soon got rid of him.MRS. HIGGINS. It would have been more to the point if her mother had. But as her mother didnt something else did.PICKERING. But what?MRS. HIGGINS [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem.PICKERING. Oh, I see. The problem of how to pass her off as a lady.HIGGINS. I'll solve that problem. Ive half solved it already.MRS. HIGGINS. No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards.HIGGINS. I dont see anything in that. She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her.MRS. HIGGINS. The advantages of that poor woman who was here just now! The manners and habits that disqualify a fine lady from earning her own living without giving her a fine lady's income! Is that what you mean?PICKERING [indulgently, being rather bored] Oh, that will be all right, Mrs. Higgins. [He rises to go].HIGGINS [rising also] We'll find her some light employment.PICKERING. Shes happy enough. Dont you worry about her. Good-bye. [He shakes hands as if he were consoling a frightened child, and makes for the door].HIGGINS. Anyhow, theres no good bothering now. The things done. Good-bye, mother. [He kisses her, and follows Pickering].PICKERING [turning for a final consolation] There are plenty of openings. We'll do whats right. Good-bye.HIGGINS [to Pickering as they go out together] Let's take her to the Shakespear exhibition at Earls Court.PICKERING. Yes: lets. Her remarks will be delicious.HIGGINS. She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.PICKERING. Ripping. [Both are heard laughing as they go downstairs].MRS. HIGGINS [rises with an impatient bounce, and returns to her work at the writing-table. She sweeps a litter of disarranged papers out of her way; snatches a sheet of paper from her stationery case; and tries resolutely to write. At the third line she gives it up; flings down her pen; grips the table angrily and exclaims] Oh, men! men!! men!!!。

高中英语真题：Unit4PygmalionSectionⅢGrammar-过去分词(短语)作状语

Unit4PygmalionSectionⅢGrammar-过去分词（短语）作状语语法图解探究发现①Now once taught by me, she'd become an upper class lady ...②But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an am bassador's garden party.③Although wounded all over, the brave soldiers continued to fight.④Lost in the forest, you should first of all remain where you ar e, waiting for help to come.⑤Seriously injured, he had to be taken to hospital.⑥Followed by his wolfdog, the hunter walked slowly in the forest.⑦He was found lying on the ground, his hands tied.[我的发现](1)句①～⑥中的过去分词分别在句中作条件状语、条件状语、让步状语、时间状语、原因状语和方式状语。

(2)过去分词表示被动或已经完成的动作。

作状语时，可以单独使用，如句④、句⑤、句⑥；也可以在其前面加上适当的连词，如句①、句②和句③。

(3)过去分词的逻辑主语必须与句子的主语保持一致，如果不一致，我们常在过去分词前加上其逻辑主语，构成独立主格结构，如句⑦。

一、过去分词(短语)作状语过去分词(短语)表示被动，表示动作已经完成，其逻辑主语则为句子的主语。

高中英语真题：Unit4PygmalionSection3UsingLanguage_1

Unit4PygmalionSection3UsingLanguageⅠ.单词拼写根据首字母或汉语提示写出下列各句中的单词。

1.It was reported that two young men knocked him down and robbed him of his briefcase.2.Li Xiaolu disapproved giving birth to a second baby to pursue her career.3.We won't compromise with him on the issue of going abroad .4.Obviously, it was the disgusting smell of the river that caused the fish to die.5.After graduation, my sister plans to run an online shop to sel l musical instruments.6.After taking the drug, the patients found it really effective(有效的).7.To the fans' surprise, the old man in shabby(寒酸的) clothes should be the singer's father.8.The customer complained that the coat had faded(褪色) after she washed it.9.The new player was blamed for quarreling with the referee(裁判).10.Her mother warned her not to overlook(忽视) the importance of this opportunity.Ⅱ.选词填空用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。

(新课标)2020版高中英语Unit4PygmalionSectionⅢUsingLanguage课时作业新人教版选修8

Section Ⅲ Using LanguageⅠ.单词拼写1．How d isgusting ! The driver splashed on me with his car.2．The child started to s ob when he couldn't find his mother.3．New buildings have taken the place of s habby little houses.4．Will you please send these dirty clothes to the l aundry ?5．I'd prefer a shower to a b athtub ,_if possible.6. How stupid to overlook (忽视) such an obvious mistake!7．That traffic accident was horrible (可怕的), but nobody knows howit came about.8．I have a mind to punish you for stealing cookie (饼干)．9．There are 26 letters in the English alphabet (字母表)．10．This china teapot (茶壶)belongs to my grandmother.Ⅱ.补全句子1．If the appointed visitor arrives, please show him in (带或领……进来)．2．The Internet is more than (不仅仅) a tool to communicate with friendsand relatives.3．We are so tired and we are in need of (需要) a good rest.4．The boy wrote to me talking about how he would deal with (处理；解决)the coming problems.5．When you turn off the radio, the sound will fade out (逐渐模糊；渐淡) gradually.6．You should look up (抬头看) frequently to pay attention to what theteachers write on the blackboard.7．Some persons now fancy themselves (自以为是)as heroes.8．It was a terrible piece of work you turned in the other day (前几天)．9．He wants to know who has taken away (拿走) his dictionary.10. The war robbed him of (夺走) his children and wife.Ⅲ.单句改错1．It is necessary to show the foreigners out when they arrive at our school.out→in2. They have arrived at a compromise about the price of the computer.about→on3．If you are in the need of anything，don't hesitate to let me know.去掉need前的the4. The memory of the old will fade out day by day. out→away5．I would never have thought of it if you have not mentioned it.第二个have→hadⅣ.完形填空(2019·天津卷)I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night，when fear seizedme.My wallet was gone.I could only have left it on the G9 bus，which was now speedingin the dark to some 1.C station.The 2.D moment was quickly followed by mental math.How much time and moneywould it cost to replace the 3.B of that little wallet？The credit cards，the driver's license，the cash，all lost to the bus.Two hours later，back at my house，I heard a knock on the door.My husband 4.Bit while I was on the phone in the dining room.“Does Jennifer live here？” I hearda lady say.In my husband's hand was my wallet，with not a penny 5.A .She leftbefore I could 6.D make it to the door to offer my thanks.After sharing the story online，I heard from someone，who 7.C the lady asErin Smith.Without 8.A ，I called to thank her.She said she 9.D my walleton a bus seat.She 10.C that going to a stranger's house was a 11.B move，but she decided to take the chance.“If I were in that 12.C ，I would want someoneto try to find me，”she said.This one stranger responded beautifully to my small 13.A ，but she actuallywasn't the only one.Right after Erin 14.D my wallet on the bus，she posted apicture of my driver's license to an online forum(论坛)，trying to see 15.Aanyone knew me.No sooner had she left my doorstep than I had emails from two womenwhose kids go to my son's nursery and who recognized my face.I've never 16.Bwords with those moms beyond small talk，but they wanted to help.I read that peopleare more divided than ever，but that's not how the people I 17.A tend to act.18.C ，I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger.Erin had gone19.D what almost anyone would have done，finding my house on a bitterly cold night，and for that I was extremely 20.D .文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文，文章讲述了一位素不相识的女士在公交车上捡到作者的钱包，并根据钱包内的信息在寒冷的黑夜把钱包送到作者家中的故事。

高中英语新人教版精品教案《Unit4 Pygmalion 教学设计》

Unit 4 Pygmalion 教学设计一、学情分析1、设计教学对象：高二年级学生2、认知根底：高中二年级学生已经初步具有一定的认知能力，也掌握了一定的阅读技能和技巧；高中的学生根本上能用英语清晰地表达个人观点，准确地描述生活现象或表达个人情感。

3、心理特征：高中学生思想活泼，求知欲旺盛，学习态度明确，自我意识开展迅速并趋向成熟，独立自主性强，有一定的价值取向。

4、学习能力：高中生在阅读的过程中他们会选择性地使用相关的阅读策略；自主阅读与表达能力已有一定根底，也具备了一定的团体协作能力，并能进行有效成功的交流、合作、与讨论。

同时学生对戏剧、电影等外国文学作品十分感兴趣，而且，此时的心理已趋向成熟，自我意识明显增强，能提出具有创造性的观点。

二、教材分析本课是人教版新课标教材选修8 Unit4 Pygmalion〔Reading〕。

本课主要介绍了萧伯纳的戏剧?皮格马利翁?〔?窈窕淑女?〕，帮助学生进一步了解戏剧，了解西方文化和社会背景。

本节课是这篇阅读的第一节课，目的旨在让学生读懂文章的意思、了解文章的内容、把握文章的中心，从而提升自己的阅读能力。

在本节课，教师大胆地对教材进行整合，将整个戏剧的主要轮廓整合在一起，删减增加为教学任务效劳。

三、教学目标1〕语言知识目标：使学生会使用本单元的相关词汇讲述该故事情节，及表达自己对该故事的看法。

2〕语言技能目标：a)使学生学会克服生词障碍，通过略读，找出人物特征，理清人物关系；通过查读，捕捉文章的重要细节，分析人物性格，理解作者的写作意图；b)使学生学会运用各种猜词技巧，猜想局部生词在具体的语言环境的含义；c〕通过对文章的讲解，使学生理解皮格马利翁式的影响。

3〕情感态度与文化意识目标：a)通过对本文的学习，唤起学生对生活的关注，增强学生对文学作品的理解能力，激发学生对戏剧学习的热情，从而提高学生的文学素养；b)通过微课，让学生了解“皮格马利翁效应〞，在面对困难时不抛弃不放弃。

2020学年新教材高中英语Unit4StageandscreenPeriodThreeUsinglanguage

Period Three Using language & Developing ideasⅠ.Read the passage and judge whether the following statements are true(T) or false(F)．1．Good stories，strong characters and impressive images are all needed to make good movies.(T)2．When books are moved to the big screen，some plot details may be lost.(T)3．You can find all the characters in a film adapted(改编) from a book.(F)4．The epic movie，Troy，was very popular among the audience.(F)5．People in recent years turn to TV series because the plots develop gradually.(T) Ⅱ.Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer.1．All too often，great words end up being turned into cinematic “turkeys”．The underlined word “turkeys” means “”．A．animals B．countriesC．failures D．a kind of food答案 C2．Which movie has the most impressive images?A．The Odyssey.B．The Great Gatsby.C．Alice in Wonderland.D．Troy.答案 C3．The reason why people are not satisfied with the movies based on some great works is that .A．the movie tickets are too expensiveB．some plot details and characters are lostC．the movies don’t have beautiful imagesD．the movies are too short答案 B4．What is the author’s attitude towards books and movies?A．Books are good but movies are bad.B．Books are bad but movies are good.C．Both books and movies are bad.D．Both books and movies have advantages and disadvantages.答案 D5．Which of the following statements is TRUE?A．Different people have different opinions about the characters in movies.B．Books and movies are two different forms of media that have the same rules. C．Helen whose title is “the most beautiful woman in the world” is the leading charac ter in the film Troy.D．People shouldn’t judge a movie against its original source.答案 AⅠ.重点单词1．applaud v．(为……)鼓掌2．grateful adj.感谢的，感激的3．overcome v．控制(感情)，克服(困难)4．romantic adj.浪漫的5．comedy n．喜剧6．plot n．(书、电影、戏剧的)情节7．transport n．交通运输系统，运输方式8．brief adj.短暂的9．escape v．逃离，逃避，摆脱10．extent n．程度11．normal adj.正常的，平常的12．awkward adj.紧张的；不舒适的13．absorbed adj.专心致志的→absorb v．吸收；吸引(注意)；吞并14．documentary n．纪录片→document n．文件；文档15．appealing adj.有吸引力的，有趣的→appeal v．有吸引力；求助(于)16．arrangement n．安排，筹划→arrange v．安排；布置，排列17．fictional adj.虚构的，编造的，小说(中)的→fiction n．小说；虚构的事18．behave v．表现→behavio(u)r n．行为；表现19．responsibility n．责任→responsible adj.尽责的；承担责任的20．absence n．缺乏，没有→absent adj.缺席的；不在场的掌握规律巧记单词1．responsible(adj.尽责的；应承担责任的)＋ity→responsibility n．责任如：activity活动reality现实security安全2．absent(adj.缺席的，不在场的)＋ce→absence(n.缺席；缺乏，没有)如：importance重要性difference区别patience耐心silence寂静Ⅱ.核心短语1．put on表演(节目)2．be based on以……为基础3．all too often时常；经常4．end up doing结果是(做)……；以(做)……而告终5．result in引起，以……为结局6．live up to符合(标准)，不负(盛名)7．to some extent在某种程度上8．in one’s own right凭借本身，靠自己9．turn to转向；求助于Ⅲ.经典句式1．that引导表语从句One of the key reasons behind this is that while a book usually takes a few days to read，a movie typically lasts under two hours.这背后的一个关键原因是：一部电影通常持续不了两个小时，而一本书通常需要几天才能读完。

高中英语Unit4Pygmalion4.3SectionⅢ练习新人教版选修8(new)

Section Ⅲ— Grammar课后篇巩固探究一、单句填空1。

—Who should be responsible for the accident？-The boss，not the workers.They just carried out the order as（tell）。

答案：told2. （drive)by a greater demand for vegetables，farmers have built more green houses。

答案：Driven3。

The flowers his friend gave him will die unless （water) every day.答案：watered4. （mail）out automatically，the e-mail will be received by all the club members。

答案：Mailed5. （face）with so much trouble,we failed to complete the task on time。

答案：Faced6. (blame)for the breakdown of the school computer network，Alice was in low spirits。

答案：Blamed7。

No matter how frequently (perform），the works of Beethoven still attract people all over the world.答案:performed8。

（lost)in the mountains for a week,the two students were finally saved by the local police。

答案：Lost二、变式训练1.Supported by his parents，he managed to open a store successfully.,he managed to open a store successfully.答案：Because he was supported by his parents2.Praised by the public,he still felt that he should work harder。

2019_2020学年高中英语Unit4PygmalionSectionⅢ—Writing课件新人教版选修8

根据下列提示,为小说《雾都孤儿》写一篇书评。 1.查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)是英国伟大的小说家。《雾都孤儿》是他的代表作之一。 2.《雾都孤儿》的主人公Oliver Twist是一个孤儿,他被扔进了贫穷与犯罪的魔窟。 3.他历尽无数艰辛,最后在好心人的帮助下,身世被查明并获得了幸福。同时,那些坏人都受到了惩罚。 4.Oliver Twist的成长环境是充满黑暗和罪恶的,但是他始终很善良。 5.这部小说会给人留下深刻的印象,让人懂得做人的道理。 6.《雾都孤儿》是英国文学史上最受欢迎并且被高度称赞的作品之一。注意:可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
1.The book called ...is written by ... 2.The book written by ...is about ... 3.The book published by ...is a best-seller. 4.The book tells us a story of ... 5.The novel is told in the form of ... 6.From the story,we can learn ... 7.It is generally considered as his best. 8.It is sometimes classified as ... 9. ...written by ...is one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature. 10.The hero of the novel is ...who ... 11.What interests/impresses me is that ... 12.This novel is popular with ... 13.This work has had aห้องสมุดไป่ตู้strong effect/influence on me.

Unit 4 Pygmalion 教案新部编本

教师学科教案[ 20 – 20 学年度第__学期]任教学科：_____________任教年级：_____________任教老师：_____________xx市实验学校Unit 4 Pygmalion Ⅰ. 单元教学目标Ⅱ. 目标语言Ⅲ. 教材分析和教材重组1. 教材分析本单元以皮格马利翁为话题，通过学习，使学生了解具有共同主题的希腊神话Pygmalion与萧伯纳戏剧之间在表现形式、人物塑造等方面的相同与不同之处；并能在此基础上，讨论和表演部分戏剧场景；能为该剧本写出一份评论；能模仿剧本编写一个戏剧场景，即Higgins教授如何给Eliza上第二课的场景。

语法部分重点学习过去分词作状语的用法。

1.1Warming Up 是三幅描述希腊神话故事Pygmalion主要情节的图画。

要求学生根据图片提示，联系已有知识，再现这个美丽的神话故事，并能就此话题展开讨论。

1.21.2 Pre-reading中所列三个问题，意在让学生提炼萧伯纳戏剧与希腊神话故事所反映的共同主题，并初步酝酿可能出现的故事情节。

1.3 1.3 Reading讲述了发生在伦敦剧院外的一幕。

主要人物有Eliza, Higgins,Pickering。

Eliza原是伦敦市的一名卖花女，在一次偶然的情况下遇见了以能听懂别人口音而自傲的Professor Higgins。

Professor Higgins与Colonel Pickering打赌，说他能将口音其糟无比，讲话粗鲁的Eliza改造成能讲标准英文的淑女。

Eliza就住在Professor Higgins的家中，受了一阵子语言训练。

最后两人认为已经训练有成，便带Eliza到一个盛大的宫廷舞会。

在场的人都不知道Eliza的出身。

女王还对Eliza大加赞赏。

Professor Higgins自傲于自己的成功，完全忽略了Eliza的感受。

Eliza盛怒之下，离开了Higgins。

她走之后，Higgins才发现不能没有她。