普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修8 Unit 4 Reading

　　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 confused) What if I was? What's it to you?

　　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 any 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 themselves every time they open their mouths. Now once taught by me, she'd become an upper class lady ...

　　CP: Is that so? Extraordinary!

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