戏剧英语听力材料 ：《猫》
戏剧，指以语言、动作，舞蹈，音乐，木偶等形式达到叙事目的的舞台表演艺术的总称。富于情感的英语戏剧语言也是人们学习英语的很好训练对象，对听力的提高具有很大好处。下面一起来看安德鲁•洛伊•韦伯-《猫》中的一幕听力材料。
Munkustrap: Are you blind when you're born?
Demeter; Can you see in the dark?
Gus: Dare you look at a king?
Skimbleshanks: Would you sit on his throne?
Rum tum tugger: Can you say of your bite?That it's worse than your bark?
Alonzo: Are you cock of the walk?
Grizabella; When you're walking alone?
All: Because Jellicles are Jellicles do Jellicles do and Jellicles would Jellicles would and Jellicles can Jellicles can and Jellices do
Jellylorum: Would you fall on your head? Do you land on your feet?
Coricopat: Are you tense when you sense? There's a storm in the air.
Sillabub: Can you find your way blind? When you're lost in the street?
Old Deuteronomy:Do you know how to go to the heaviside layer?
All: Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do Jellicles do and Jellicles can Jellicles can and Jellicles do Jellicles do and Jellicles can Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Coricopat: Can you ride on broomstick to places far distant?
Jennyanydots:Familiar with candle.
Mungojerre&Rumpleteazer: With book and with bell?
Bombaluyrina: Were you whittington's friend?
Mr Mistoffelees: The Pied Piper's assistant?
Plato&Munkustrap: Have you been an alumnus of heaven or hell?
Tumblebrutus: Are you mean like a minx?
Victoria: Are you lean like a lynx?
Pouncival: Are you keen to be seen when you're smelling a rat?
Cassandra: Were you there when the pharaohs? Commissioned the Sphinx?
All: If you were and you are You're a Jellicle cat! Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats We can dive through the air Like a flying trapeze We can turn double somersaults bounce on a tire
We can run up a wall
We can swing through the trees
We can balance on bars
We can walk on a wire
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Can you sing at the same time
In more than one key?
Duets by Rossini and waltzes by strauss?
And can you (as cats do)begin with a‘C'
That always triumphantly brings down the house?
Jellicle cats are queen of the nights
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from the‘Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir
Jellicle cats are queen of the nights
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from the Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir
The mystical divinity
Of unashamed felinity
Round the cathedral rang `Vivat'
Life to the everlasting cat!
Feline, fearless, faithful and true
To others who do-what
Jellicle do and Jellicle can
Jellicle can and Jellicle do
Jellicle cats sing Jellicle chants
Jellicle old and Jellicle new
Jellicle song and Jellicle dance
Jelficle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Practical cats, dramatical cats
Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
Oratorial cats, Delphic-Oracle cats
Skeptical cats，Dyspeptical cats
Romantical cats, Pedantical cats
Critical cats parasitical cats
Allegorical cats metaphorical its
Statistical cats and mystical cats
Political cats hypocritical cats
Clerical cats hysterical cats
Cynical cats rabbinical cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats
Gus: There's a man over there
With a look of surprise
As much as to say
Weel now, how about that?
Munkustrap: Do I actually see with my own very eyes
A man who's not heard of a Jellicle cat?
What's a Jellicle cat?
All: What's a Jellicle cat?
What's a Jellicle cat?
THE NAMING OF CATS
All: The naming of cats is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday games
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three different names
First of all，there's the name that the family use daily
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James
Such as Victor or Jonathan，George or Bill Bailey
All of them are sensible, everyday names
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter
Some for the gentlemen，some for the dames
Such as Plato ADMETUS ELECTRA, Demeter
But all of them sensible, everyday names
But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particular
A name that's peculiar and more dignified
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular?
Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo or Coricopat
Such ad Bombalurina，or else Jellylorum
Names that never belong to more than one cat
But above and beyond there's still one name left over
And that is the name that you will never guess
The name that no human research can discover
But the cat himself knows and will never confess
When you notice a cat in profound meditation
The reason，I tell you，is always the same
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name
His ineffable, effable, effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Name name name name name name
THE INVITATION TO THE JELLICLE BAII
Mr Mistoffelees; Jellicle cats come out tonight
Jellicle cats come one come all
The Jellicle moon is shining bright
Jellicle come to the Jellicle ball
Jellicle cats come out tonight
Jellicle come to the Jellicle ball
All: Jellicle cats come out tonight
Jellicle cats come one come all
The Jellicle moon is shining bright
Jellicle come to the Jellicle ball
Jellicle cats come out tonight
Jellicle cats come one come all
The Jellicle moon is shining bright
Jellicle come to the Jellicle ball
Munkustrap: Jellicle cats meet once a year
At the Jellicle ball where we all rejoice
And the Jellicle leader will soon appear
And make what is known as the Jellicle choice
When Old Deuteronomy just before dawn
Through a silence you feel you could cut with a knife
Announces the cat who can now be reborn
And come back to disevent Jellicle life
For waiting up there is the heaviside layer
Full of wonders one Jellicle only will see
And Jellicle ask because Jellicle dare
Who will it be?
Who will it be?
THE OLD GIIMBIE CAT
Munkustrap: I have a gumbie cat in mind
her name is Jennyanydots
Her coat is of the tabby kind
With tiger stripes and leopard spots
All day she sits beneath the stair
Or on the steps or on the mat
She sits and sits and sits and sits
And that's what makes a gumbie cat
That's what makes a gumbie cat!
Demeter&Jellylorum&Bombalurina: But...
When the day's hustle and bustle is done
Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun
And when all the family's in bed and asleep
She tucks up her skirts to the basement to creep
She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice
(Gumbie)Jennyanydots: Their behavior's not good and their manners not nice
Trio: So when she has got them lined up on the matting She teaches them
Gumbie: Music crocheting and tatting
Munkustrap: I have a gumbie cat in mind
Her name is Jennyanydots
The curtain cord she likes to wind
And tie it into sailor knots
She site upon the windowsill
Or anything that's smooth and flat
she sits and sits and sits and sits
And that's what makes a gumbie cat
That's what makes a gumbie cat
Trio: But...
When the day's hustle and bustle is done
Then the gumbie cat's work is but hardly begun
She thinks that the cockroaches
Gumbie: Need employment
Trio: To prevent them from
Gumbie: Idle and wanton destroyment
Trio: So she's formed form that lot of disorderly louts A troop of well disciplined helpful boy scouts
(GumbielJennyanydots: With a purpose in fife and a good deed to do...
Trio: And she's even created a beetles tattoo!
All: For she's a jolly good fellow!
(GumbielJennyanydots: Thank you my dears! The Rum Tum Tugger
All: The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
Tugger: If you offer me pheasant, I'd rather have grouse
If you put me in a house, I would much prefer a flat
If you put me in a flat, I word rather have a house
If you set me on a mouse, then I only want a rat
If you set me on a rat, then I'd rather chase a mouse
All: The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
Tugger: And there isn't any need for me to shout it
All: For he will do as he do do
Tugger: And there's nothing doing about it!
Munkustrap&Alonzo&Mistoffeiees: The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore
Tugger: When you let me in, then I want to go out
I' m always on the wrong side of every door
And as soon as I'm at home, then I'd like to get about
I like to lie in the bureau drawer
And I make such a fuss if I can't get out
All: The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
Tugger: And there isn't any use fou you to doubt it
All: For he will do as he do do
Tugger: And there's no doing anything about it!
Bombalurina: The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast
Tugger: My disobliging ways are a matter of habit
If you offer me fish，then I always want a feast
When there isn't any fish，then I won't eat rabbit
If you offer me cream，then I sniff and sneer