The Little Prince（Ⅲ）

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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 the 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 bemuch toocomplicated 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（響亮的聲音）of laughter,which irritated（刺激）me very much.I like my misfortunes to betaken seriously.

“So you,too,come from the sky!Which is your planet?”At that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable（不能理解的）mystery of his presence;and I demanded,abruptly:

“Do you come from another planet?”

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

“It is true that on that you can’t have come from very far away...”

And he sank into a reverie（幻想）,which lasted a long time.Then,taking my sheep out of his pocket,heburied himself inthe contemplation（凝視）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.

我費(fèi)了好長時間才弄清楚他是從哪里來的。小王子向我提出了很多問題，可是，對于我提出的問題，他好像壓根沒有聽見似的。他無意中吐露的一些話逐漸使我搞清了他的來歷。

例如，當(dāng)他第一次瞅見我的飛機(jī)時（我就不畫出我的飛機(jī)了，因為這種圖畫對我來說太復(fù)雜），他問：

“這是個啥玩意？”

“這不是‘玩意兒’。它能飛。這是飛機(jī)，是我的飛機(jī)。”

我當(dāng)時很驕傲地告訴他我能飛。

于是他驚奇地說道：

“怎么？你是從天上掉下來的？”

“是的”。我謙遜地答道。

“啊？這真滑稽。”

此時小王子發(fā)出一陣清脆的笑聲。這使我很不高興。我要求別人嚴(yán)肅地對待我的不幸。

“那么，你也是從天上來的了！你是哪個星球上的？”那時，對于他是從哪里來的這個秘密我隱約發(fā)現(xiàn)了一點線索；于是，我就突然問道：

“你是從另一個星球上來的嗎？”

可是他不回答我的問題。他一面看著我的飛機(jī)，一面甩頭，接著說道：

“可不是么，乘坐這玩意兒，你不可能是從很遠(yuǎn)的地方來的……”

說到這里，他就長時間地陷入沉思之中。然后，從口袋里掏出了我畫的小羊，看著他的寶貝入了神。

“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 shocked by this offer:

“Tie him!What a queer（奇怪的） idea! ”

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（認(rèn)真地）:

“That doesn’t matter.Where I live,everything is so small!”

And,with perhaps a hint（暗示）of sadness,he added:

“Straight ahead of him,nobody can go very far...”

你們可以想象這種關(guān)于“別的星球”的若明若暗的話語使我心里多么好奇。因此我竭力地想知道其中更多的奧秘。

“你是從哪里來的，我的小家伙？你的家在什么地方？你要把我的小羊帶到哪里去？”

閃爍液是一種用于液體閃爍計數(shù)測量的混合有機(jī)溶液。樣品發(fā)出的β粒子通過閃爍液時，其輻射能消耗于溶劑分子的電離和激發(fā)；溶劑分子激發(fā)后回到基態(tài)時釋放出能量傳給閃爍體，閃爍體從激發(fā)態(tài)回到基態(tài)時多余的能量以光子形式放出，這些具有溶質(zhì)特征波長的光子，隨后被光陰極探測，經(jīng)放大后在光電倍增管的陽極上形成足夠大的電脈沖。

他沉思了一會，然后回答我說：

“好在有你給我的那只箱子，夜晚可以給小羊當(dāng)房子用。”

“那當(dāng)然。如果你聽話的話，我再給你畫一根繩子，白天可以拴住它。再加上一根樁。”

我的建議看來讓小王子有點反感。

“拴住它，多么奇怪的主意。”

“但如果你不拴住它，它就到處跑，那么它會跑丟的。”

我的這位朋友又笑出了聲，說道：

“但，你認(rèn)為它會跑到哪里去呀？”

“不管什么地方。它一直往前跑……”

這時，小王子鄭重其事地說：

“這沒有什么關(guān)系，我那里很小很小。”

接著，他略帶傷感地又補(bǔ)充了一句：

“一直朝前走，也不會走出多遠(yuǎn)……”

Language study

Vocabulary

1.reveal v.顯示；揭露

2.for instance例如

3.much too太

4.modestly adj.謙虛地；審慎地;適度地

5.take...seriously認(rèn)真對待

6.bury oneself in埋頭做某事

7.make a great effort to do努力……

Difficult sentences

1.it充當(dāng)形式主語

我費(fèi)了好長時間才弄清楚他是從哪里來的。（learn）

_________________________________where he came from.

【點石成金】“做某事花費(fèi)某人多長時間”的句型為“It takes sb some time to do sth”，句中的it為形式主語，用于代替實際主語to learn where he came from，以避免句子頭重腳輕。故答案為It took me a long time to learn。

2.強(qiáng)調(diào)句

他無意中吐露的一些話逐漸使我搞清了他的來歷。_______________from words dropped by chance___________,little by little,everything was revealed to me.

【點石成金】by chance“偶然地”，little by little“漸漸地”。本句為強(qiáng)調(diào)句，被強(qiáng)調(diào)的部分為from words dropped by chance。故答案依次為It was和that。