Pygmalion

/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/

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a comic play (1913) by George Bernard Shaw about a professor, Henry Higgins, who teaches a young cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, how to speak in an upper-class way. She becomes a success in society and falls in love with Higgins. The play was made into a successful musical comedy and a film called My Fair Lady. Shaw took his title from an ancient Greek story about Pygmalion, an artist who falls in love with a statue he has created. The philologist Henry Sweet (1845-1912) is thought to be the model for Higgins.皮格馬利翁（Pygmalion）：喬治·伯納德·肖（George Bernard Shaw）的喜劇片（1913年），講述了亨利·希金斯（Henry Higgins）教授的故事，亨斯·希金斯（Henry Higgins）教年輕的金雞菊姑娘伊麗莎·杜利特爾（Eliza Doolittle）如何上流社會。她在社會上取得了成功，並愛上了希金斯。該劇被制作成成功的音樂喜劇和一部名爲《我的淑女》的電影。肖（Shaw）的名字取自古希臘關於皮格馬利翁（Pygmalion）的故事，他是一位愛上了他創造的雕像的藝術家。語言學家亨利·斯威特（1845-1912）被認爲是希金斯的榜樣。