Chapter 1#

• The grown-ups’ response, this time, was to advise me to layaside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from theinside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography,history, arithmetic and gramma

• Grown-ups neverunderstand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome forchildren to be always and forever explaining things to the

• At a glanceI can distinguish China from Arizon

• with a great many people who have been concerned withmatters of consequenc

• And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

 Chapter 2#

• until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert ofSahara

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  so sweet…

  原文：“If you please— draw me a sheep

• “If you please— draw me a sheep

• who stood there examining mewith great seriousness

• That, however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged mein my painter’s career when I was six years old, and I neverlearned to draw anything

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  and callback!

  原文： except boas from the outside andboas from the inside.

• When at last I wasable to speak

• as if he were speakingof a matter of great consequence:

• When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey

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  how insist!

  原文：“That doesn’t matter. Draw me a sheep…”

• And I was astounded to hear the little fellow greet it with

• Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep.”

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  he even take consider of this…

  原文：“This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time.”

• I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge:

• And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.

 Chapter 3#

• “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.

• modestly.

• broke into a lovely peal of laughter

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  Who doesn’t?

  原文： I like my misfortunes to be takenseriously.

• I like my misfortunes to be takenseriously.

• caught a gleam of light in the impenetrablemystery of his presence

• sank into a reverie

• he buried himself in the contemplation of his treasure.

• My little man, where do you come from?

• at night he can use it as his house.”

• Tie him! What a queer idea!”

• peal of laughter:

• And, with perhaps a hint of sadness, he added: “Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far…”

 Chapter 4#

• Grown-ups are like that…

• And this time everybody accepted his report.

• hey never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?”

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  这个demand用的好准确啊

  原文：demand:

• demand:

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  像是在谈婚论嫁

  原文：Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

• Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

• geraniums

• shrug their shoulders

• leave you in peace from their questions.

• One must not hold it against them.

• forbearance

• I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories

• To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend

• I shall certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not at all sure of success.

• fumble

• generally fair-to-middling.

• alas

• Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.

 Chapter 5#

• baobabs.

• might chance to fall

• was obliged to

• is seized with the desire to awaken.

• timid

• tedious

• Sometimes,” he added

• When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.

 Chapter 6#

• Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life…

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  And we must wait. Wait for the end Wait until everything is over and every possibility is written.

  原文： “But we must wait,” I said. “Wait? For what?” “For the sunset. We must wait until it is time.”

• “But we must wait,” I said. “Wait? For what?” “For the sunset. We must wait until it is time.”

• Just so

• But on your tiny planet, my little prince

• and the twilight falling whenever you like…

• “One day,” you said to me, “I saw the sunset forty-four times!”

• “Were you so sad, then?” I asked, “on the day of the forty-four sunsets?” But the little prince made no reply.

 Chapter 7#

• Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditation on his problem, he demanded:

• thorns

• The little prince never let go of a question, once he had asked it

• “Oh!” There was a moment of complete silence.

• resentfulness:

• Don’t you see— I am very busy with matters of consequence!”

• thunderstruck.

• “Matters of consequence

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  Most heartbreaking……

  原文：“You talk just like the grown-ups!”

• “You talk just like the grown-ups!”

• “You mix everything up together… You confuse everything…”

• He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures.

• But he is not a man— he is a mushroom!” “A what?” “A mushroom!”

• And is it not a matter of consequence to try to understand why the flowers go to so much trouble to grow thorns which are never of any use to them?

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  排比加上反问还有斥责，这里是真的生气了……

  原文：And is it not a matter of consequence to try to understand why the flowers go to so much trouble to grow thorns which are never of any use to them? Is the warfare between the sheep and the flowers not important? Is this not of more consequence than a fat red-faced gentleman’s sums? And if I know— I, myself— one flower which is unique in the world, which grows nowhere but on my planet, but which one little sheep can destroy in a single bite some morning, without even noticing what he is doing— Oh! You think that is not important!”

• it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

• He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there…’

• in one moment all his stars will be darkened… And you think that is not important!”

• He could not say anything more. His words were choked by sobbing.

• The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands.

• Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death?

• I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering

• where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.

 Chapter 8#

• One morning they would appear in the grass, and by night they would have faded peacefully away.

• sprout which was not like any other small sprouts on his planet

• The little prince, who was present at the first appearance of a huge bud, felt at once that some sort of miraculous apparition must emerge from it.

• She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies

• coquettish

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  And i could not restrain my admiration for u as well

  原文：But the little prince could not restrain his admiration: “Oh! How beautiful you are!”

• But the little prince could not restrain his admiration: “Oh! How beautiful you are!”

• abashed

• vanity—

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  Suppose the worst and you wouldn’t be hurt

  原文：I suppose you wouldn’t have a screen for me?”

• I suppose you wouldn’t have a screen for me?”

• remorse

• confided

• But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace

• tenderness

• I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words.

• I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems.

• inconsistent

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  可是你已不再

  原文：But I was too young to know how to love her…”

 Chapter 9#

• chimney.

• But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him.

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  Yet it’s too late. People always hide their love and attachments for each other until the very last time.

  原文： “I have been silly,” she said to him, at last. “I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy…”

• “I have been silly,” she said to him, at last. “I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy…”

• He did not understand this quiet sweetness.

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  Love bravely so there wouldn’t be regrets…

  原文：“Of course I love you,” the flower said to him. “It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you— you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy…

• I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

• You will be far away… as for the large animals— I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws.”

• “Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!” For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower..

 Chapter 10#

• tolerated no disobedience

• that would not be the fault of the general. It would be my fault.”

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  原文：“Over everything,” said the king, with magnificent simplicity. “Over everything?” The king made a gesture, which took in his planet, the other planets, and all the stars. “Over all that?” asked the little prince. “Over all that,” the king answered. For his rule was not only absolute: it was also universal. “And the stars obey you?” “Certainly they do,” the king said. “They obey instantly. I do not permit insubordination.” Such power was a thing for the little prince to marvel at. If he had been master of such complete authority, he would have been able to watch the sunset, not forty-four times in one day, but seventy-two, or even a hundred, or even two hundred times, without ever having to move his chair. And because he felt a bit sad as he remembered his little planet which he had forsaken, he plucked up his courage to ask the king a favor: “I should like to see a sunset… do me that kindness… Order the sun to set…” “If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?” the king demanded. “The general, or myself?” “You,” said the little prince firmly. “Exactly. One much require from each one the duty which each one can perform,” the king went on.

• And the stars obey you?”

• Such power was a thing for the little prince to marvel at.

• forsaken

• Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

• consulted a bulky almanac.

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  Ego of the old.

  原文：I have not yet made a complete tour of my kingdom. I am very old. There is no room here for a carriage. And it tires me to walk.”

• I have not yet made a complete tour of my kingdom. I am very old. There is no room here for a carriage. And it tires me to walk.”

• Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered. “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

• From time to time you will condemn him to death

• But you will pardon him on each occasion; for he must be treated thriftily. He is the only one we have.”

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  Still he has lingered because of his kindness

  原文：the little prince hesitated a moment.

• the little prince hesitated a moment.

• I made you my Ambassador,” the king called out, hastily. He had a magnificent air of authority.

 Chapter 11#

• monotony.

• But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

 Chapter 12#

• lugubrious

• Forget that I am ashamed,” the tippler confessed, hanging his head.

• “Ashamed of drinking!” The tipler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence.

 Chapter 13#

• I don’t amuse myself with balderdash.

• rheumatism.

• Kings do not own, they reign over. It is a very different matter.”

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  Reveals that the little rose is not belonged to our little prince.

  原文：me. If I owned a flower, I could pluck that flower and take it away with me.

• On matters of consequence, the little prince had ideas which were very different from those of the grown-ups.

 Chapter 14#

• When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep.

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  They cannot discover the beauty of their occupation

  原文：“I follow a terrible profession. I

• For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.

• Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.”

• whom I could have made my friend

 Chapter 15#

• panted

• “I have also a flower.""We do not record flowers,” said the geographer.”Why is that? The flower is the most beautiful thing on my planet!”

• ephemeral.

• “My flower is ephemeral,” the little prince said to himself, “and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone

• “What place would you advise me to visit now?” he asked.”The planet Earth,” replied the geographer. “It has a good reputation.”And the little prince went away, thinking of his flower.

 Chapter 16#

• Seen from a slight distance, that would make a splendid spectacle.

• be waved back into the wings

 Chapter 17#

• They fancy themselves as important as the baobab

• courteously

• “I have been having some trouble with a flower,” said the little prince.

• “It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.

• You move me to pity— you are so weak on this Earth made of granite

 Chapter 18#

• But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.”

 Chapter 19#

• “Be my friends. I am all alone,” he said.”I am all alone—all alone—all alone,” answered the echo.

• On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak…”

 Chapter 20#

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  Yet only beacuse of the massive amount of them, the precious of you get lighter

  原文：And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!

• And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!

• if she should see that… she would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend that she was dying, to avoid being laughed at

 Chapter 21#

• Who are you?” asked the little prince, and added, “You are very pretty to look at.""I am a fox,” said the fox.”Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince. “I am so unhappy.”

• What does that mean— ‘tame’?""It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. It means to establish ties.""’To establish ties’

• But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…”

• “There is a flower… I think that she has tamed me…”

• Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?""No.""Nothing is perfect,” sighed the fox.

• monotonous

• But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.

• Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me bac k the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat…”

• “One only understands the things that one tames,”

• They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more . If you want a friend, tame me…”

• But yo u will sit a little closer to me, every day…”

• “If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’cloc k, I shall already be worrying and jumping about

• But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

• rites…

• vineyards.

• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near—“Ah,” said the fox, “I shall cry.”

• “Then it has done you no good at all!""It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of the wheat fields.” And then he added:“Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world.

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  注意这里的现在完成时

  原文：It has done me good

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  You were ordinary to me, yet you are special to me.

  原文：You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”

• “You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you— the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundre ds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

• And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”[插图]

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  It’s all the time I’ve spent with you makes you irreplaceable to me. When I see you, I also see myself on your figure.

  原文：It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

• It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

• “Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox. “But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…”

 Chapter 22#

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  Man can never be satisfied with the position the are, which brings eternal pains.

  原文：“Were they not satisfied where they were?” asked the little prince.

 Chapter 23#

• quench

 Chapter 24#

• “It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend…”

• weariness.

• trudged

• feverish

• “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”

• the ridges of sand

• Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…

• What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”

• “Yes,” I said to the little prince. “The house, the stars, the desert— what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!”

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  Then I tamed the little prince

  原文：his loyalty to a flower— the image of a rose that shines through his whole being like the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep…” And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind…

 Chapter 25#

• “Men,” said the little prince, “set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round…”

• pulley

• bucket

• weathervane

• hoisted

• But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart…”

• So then I made a pencil sketch of a muzzle. And as I gave it to him my heart was torn.”You have plans that I do not know about,” I said.But he did not answer me

• But I was not reassured. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed..

 Chapter 26#

• dangling.

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  Don’t go…

  原文：“You have good poison? You are sure that it will not make me suffer too long?”

• “You have good poison? You are sure that it will not make me suffer too long?”

• I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn asunder;

• And now I did not dare ask him any more questions. He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck.

• “I, too, am going back home today…”Then, sadly—“It is much farther… it is much more difficult…”

• Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more.

• plea.

• The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen…""Yes, I know…""It is just as it is with the flower. If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers…""Yes, I know…”

• It is better, like that. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens… they will all be your friends.

• But all these stars are silent. You— you alone— will have the stars as no one else has them—”

• “In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… you— only you— will have stars that can laugh!”

• malicious

• “It was wrong of you to come. You will suffer. I shall look as if I were dead; and that will not be true…”I said nothing.”You understand… it is too far. I cannot carry this body with me. It is too heavy.”I said nothing.

• There was nothing but a flash of yellow close to his ankle. He remained motionless for an instant. He did not cry out. He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound, because of the sand.

 Chapter 27#

• And now six years have already gone by…

• At one time I say to myself: “Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully…” Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

• Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower?

• This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world.

• Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.

• END

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