"It is not funny at all!" said the lamplighter. "While we have been talking together a month has gone by."
“我不明白。”小王子说。
“那么为什么你又把它点着了呢？”
“早上好。——这是命令。”点灯的回答道。
And he lighted his lamp again.
点灯的人说：“命令没有改，惨就惨在这里了！这颗行星一年比一年转得更快，而命令却没有改。”
“这是命令。”点灯的人回答道。
于是他又点燃了路灯。
“一点趣味也没有，”点灯的说，“我们俩在一块说话就已经有一个月的时间了。”
When he arrived on the planet he respectfully saluted the lamplighter.
"Then-- the planet now makes a complete turn every minute, and I no longer have a single second for repose. Once every minute I have to light my lamp and put it out!"
The little prince went on with his explanation:
“告诉你，我知道一种能使你休息的办法，你要什么时候休息都可以。”
"The orders have not been changed," said the lamplighter. "That is the tragedy! From year to year the planet has turned more rapidly and the orders have not been changed!"
"Those are the orders,"九*九*藏*书*网 replied the lamplighter.
"There is nothing to understand," said the lamplighter. "Orders are orders. Good morning."
The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough rowwｗ.99lｉｂ•ｎeｔom on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in the heavens, on a planet which had no people, and not one house. But he said to himself, nevertheless:
What the little prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blest every day with 1440 sunsets!
"That is very funny! A day lasts only one minute, here where you live!"
Then he mopped his forehead with a handkerchief decorated with red squares.
As the little prince watched him, he felt that he loved this lamplighter who was so faithful to his orders. He remembered the sunsets which he himself had gone to seek, in other days, merely by pulling up his chair; and he wanted to help his friend.
"Your p99lib•netlanet is so small that three strides will take you all the way around it. To be always in the sunshine, you need only walk along rather slowly. When you want to rest, you will walk-- and the day will last as long as you like."
For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.
"A month?"
“就是熄掉我的路灯。——晚上好。”
"That man," said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, "that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."
"I follow a terrible profession. In the old days it was reasonable. I put the lamp out in the morning, and in the evening I lighted it again. I had the rest of the day for relaxation and the rest of the night for sleep."
"Ghtｔｐ://wｗｗ.９９lib.ｎｅｔood morning. Why have you just put out your lamp?"
"It may well be that this man is absurd. But he is not so absurd as the king, the conceited man, the businessman, and the tippler. For at least his work has some meaning. 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. That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful."
