第三篇
At that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his presence; and I demanded, abruptly:
[ Chapter 3 ] - the narrator learns more about from where the little prince came
But he did not reply. He tossed his head gently, without taking his eyes from my plane:
"Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far..."
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.
Ⅲ
他沉思了一会，然后回答我说：
我的这位朋友又笑出了声：
“你是从另一个星球上来的吗？”
“你想要它跑到哪里去呀？”
九-九-藏-书-网我当时很骄傲地告诉他我能飞。于是他惊奇地说道：
“怎么？你是从天上掉下来的？”
“不管什么地方。它一直往前跑……”
“如果你不栓住它，它就到处跑，那么它会跑丢的。”
He cried out, then:
But the little prince seemed shocked by this offer:
"It is true that on that you cant have come from very far away..."
Then he added:
"What! You dropped down from the sky?"
“这是个啥玩艺？”
After a reflective silence he answered:
"But where do you think he would go?"
“这没有什么关系，我那里很小很小。”
"That is not an object. It flies. It is an airplane. It is my airplane."
And, with perhaps a hint of sadness, he added:
“一直朝前走，也不会走出多远……”
“ｈttｐ://ｗwｗ•99liｂ.ｎet栓住它，多么奇怪的主意。”
"Do you come from another planet?"
接着，他略带伤感地又补充了一句：
我的建议看来有点使小王子反感。
"Tie him! What a queer idea!"
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:
"Anywhere. Straight ahead of him."
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.
"Oh! That is fu
九_九_藏_书_网nny!"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.
“好在有你给我的那只箱子，夜晚可以给小羊当房子用。”
我费了好长时间才弄清楚他是从哪里来的。小王子向我提出了很多问题，可是，对我提出的问题，他好象压根没有听见似的。他无意中吐露的一些话逐渐使我搞清了他的来历。例如，当他第一次瞅见我的飞机时（我就不画出我的飞机了，因为这种图画对我来说太复杂），他问我道：
可是他不回答我的问题。他一面看着我的飞机，一面微微地点点头，接着说道：
“啊？这真滑稽。”
“那当然。如果你听话的话，我再给你画一根绳子，白天可以栓住它。再加上一根扦杆。”
And I was proud to have him learn that I could fly.
说到这里，他就长时间地陷入沉思之中。然后，从口袋里掏出了我画的小羊，看着他的宝贝入了神。
"That doesnt matter. Where I live, everything is so small!"
九_九_藏_书_网“可不是么，乘坐这玩艺儿，你不可能是从很远的地方来的……”
"The thing that is so good about the box you have given me is that at night he can use it as his house."
“这不是‘玩艺儿’。它能飞。这是飞机。是我的飞机。”
"Yes," I answered, modestly.
"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."
“那么，你也是从天上来的了！你是哪个星球上的？”
"What is that object?"
此时小王子发出一阵清脆的笑声。这使我很不高兴。我要求别人严肃地对待我的不幸。然后，他又说道：
即刻，对于他是从哪里来的这个秘密我隐约发现到了一点线索；于是，我就突然问道：
这时，小王子郑重其事地说：
"So you, too, come from thhttp://www.99lib.nete sky! Which is your planet?"
"But if you dont tie him," I said, "he will wander off somewhere, and get lost."
“是的”。我谦逊地答道。
"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?"
Then the little prince said, earnestly:
你们可以想见这种关于“别的星球”的若明若暗的话语使我心里多么好奇。因此我竭力地想知道其中更多的奥秘。
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
My friend broke into another peal of laughter:
“你是从哪里来的，我的小家伙？你的家在什么地方？你要把我的小羊带到哪里去？”