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小王子 The Little Prince
飞行员讲述了六年前他因飞机故障迫降在撒哈拉沙漠遇见小王子的故事。神秘的小王子来自另一个星球。飞行员讲了小王子和他的玫瑰的故事。小王子为什么离开自己的星球；在抵达地球之前，小王子英文是什么水平，他又访问过哪些星球。他转述了小王子对六个星球的历险，他遇见了国王、爱虚荣的人、酒鬼、商人、点灯人、地理学家、蛇、三枚花瓣的沙漠花、玫瑰园、扳道工、商贩、狐狸以及我们的叙述者飞行员本人。
第一章: 一幅精彩的插图
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book，called True Stories from Nature，about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
I pondered deeply，then，over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
当时，我对丛林中的奇遇想得很多，于是，我也用彩色铅笔画出了我的第一副图画。我的第一号作品。它是这样的：
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups，and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
我把我的这副杰作拿给大人看，我问他们我的画是不是叫他们害怕。
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"
他们回答我说：“一顶帽子有什么可怕的？”
小王子英文princekin.网络释义：The Little Prince ; Prince ; princekin .n.小王子；幼主。双语例句：1、在这儿，我意外地遇到了小王子。Unexpectedly, I met the little prince here.2、小王子就和小兔子和小臭鼬玩吖？
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it，I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor，so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
我画的不是帽子，是一条巨蟒在消化着一头大象。于是我又把巨蟒肚子里的情况画了出来，以便让大人们能够看懂。这些大人总是需要解释。我的第二号作品是这样的：
The grown-ups' response，this time，was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors，whether from the inside or the outside，and devote myself instead to geography，history，arithmetic and grammar. That is why，at the age of six，I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves，and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
大人们劝我把这些画着开着肚皮的，或闭上肚皮的蟒蛇的图画放在一边，还是把兴趣放在地理、历史、算术、语法上。就这样，在六岁的那年，我就放弃了当画家这一美好的职业。我的第一号、第二号作品的不成功，使我泄了气。这些大人们，靠他们自己什么也弄不懂，还得老是不断地给他们作解释。这真叫孩子们腻味。
小王子英文是The Little Prince。《小王子》是法国作家安托万·德·圣·埃克苏佩里于1942年写成的著名儿童文学短篇小说。本书的主人公是来自外星球的小王子。书中以一位飞行员作为故事叙述者，讲述了小王子从自己星球出发前往。
So then I chose another profession，and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night，such knowledge is valuable.
后来，我只好选择了另外一个职业，我学会了开飞机，世界各地差不多都飞到过。的确，地理学帮了我很大的忙。我一眼就能分辨出中国和亚里桑那。要是夜里迷失了航向，这是很有用的。
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately，close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted，I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One，which I have always kept. I would try to find out，so，if this was a person of true understanding. But，whoever it was，he，or she，would always say:
当我遇到一个头脑看来稍微清楚的大人时，我就拿出一直保存着的我那第一号作品来测试测试他。我想知道他是否真的有理解能力。可是，得到的回答总是：
"That is a hat."
“这是顶帽子。”
Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors，or primeval forests，or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge，and golf，and politics，and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
我就不和他谈巨蟒呀，原始森林呀，或者星星之类的事。我只得迁就他们的水平，和他们谈些桥牌呀，高尔夫球呀，政治呀，领带呀这些。于是大人们就十分高兴能认识我这样一个通情达理的人。
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