小王子 Chapter 3

Chapter 3 

It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me.

The first time he saw my airplane, for instance(I shall not draw my airplane; that would be much too complicated for me), he asked me:

" what is that object?"

"That is not an object . It flies. It is an airplane. It is my airplane."

And I was proud to have him learn that I could fly.

He cried out,then:

" What! You dropped down from the sky? "

"Yes," I answered, modestly.

"Oh! That is funny!"

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

Then he added:

" So you, too, come from the sky! which is your planet?"

At that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his presence; and I demanded, abruptly:

"Do you come from another planet?"

But he did not reply. He tossed his head gently, without taking his eyes from my plane:

" It is true that on that you can not have come from very far away..."

And he sank into a reverie, which lasted a long time. Then,taking my sheep out of his pocket, he buried himself in the contemplation of his treasure.

You can imagine how my curiosity was aroused by this half-confidence about the " other planets". I made a great effort, therefore, to find out more on this subject.

" My little man,where do you come from? What is this ' where I live' ,of which you speak? Where do you want to take your sheep? "

After a reflective silence he answered:

" The thing that is so good about the box you have given me is that at night he can use it as his house."

" That is so.And if you are good I will give you a string, too,so that you can tie him during the day, and a post to tie him to."

But the little prince seemed shockedly by this offer:

" Tie him! What a queer idea!"

" But if you don't tie him," I said, " he will wander off somewhere, and get lost."

My friend broke into another peal of laughter:

" But where do you think he would go?"

" Anywhere. Straight ahead of him."

Then the little prince said,earnestly:

"That doesn't matter. Where I live, everyting is so small !"

And ,with perhaps a hint of sadness,he added:

" Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far ..."

第三章

我费了很长时间才弄清他是从哪里来的。小王子问了我很多问题，而我问他的那些，他仿佛没听到一样。我对他的了解，是通过那些偶然吐露出的只言片语，一点点地积累起来的。
比如说，当他第一次看到我的飞机（我就不画我的分飞机了，对我来说那太复杂了），他问我：
“这是个什么东西？”
“那不是个“东西”。它能飞。那是飞机。那是我的飞机”
“我很得意的让他知道我会开飞机”
“然后他大声叫道：”
“什么，你是从天上掉下来的？”
“是的。”我谦虚的说到
“啊！那太有趣了！”
说着，小王子发出了清脆的笑声。这让我很恼火。我希望别人能严肃对待我的不幸。
他接着说：
“这么说，你也是从天上来的！你来自哪个星球呢？”
我猛然捕捉到关于他什么出现的一抹微光，于是迫不及待的问道：
“你是从其他星球来的吗？”
但是他并没有回答我。他轻轻的晃了晃头，眼睛一直盯着我的飞机：
“也是，就靠这个东西，你不可能从很远的地方来。。。”
说完，他陷入久久的遐想。然后他从口袋中掏出我给他的绵羊，专心地看着他的宝贝入了神。
你可以想象，对于“其他星球”这样若明若暗的话使我心里多么好奇。于是，我努力去发现更多的东西。
“小家伙，你从哪里来呢？你说的‘我住的地方’是哪里？你要把你的绵羊带到哪里去？”
他沉默了片刻，回答道：
“你给我的这个盒子太好了，晚上小羊可以把它当房子住。”
“那当然。你要是乖乖的，我会给你一根绳子，那样白天你就可以拴着它了，我还能给你一根木桩。”
但是小王子对我的提议似乎感到震惊：
“拴着它！这想法太奇怪了！”
“但是如果你不拴着它，”我说，“它会到处闲逛，就会迷路啊！”
我的这位朋友又笑了起来：
“但是你觉得它会去哪里呢？”
“任何地方，一直往前走。。。”
这时，小王子认真说到：
“这没关系。我住的地方，一切都很小！”
并且，他似乎有些伤感的补充了一句：
“就算一直往前走，也走不了多远。。。”
 

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