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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

我的這位朋友又收回清脆的笑聲：“你想它能跑到那裡去呀？”

He cried out, then: "What! You dropped down from the sky""Yes," I answered, modestly.

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: "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.

“這不是‘玩意兒’。它能飛。這是飛機，是我的飛機。”

但是，我的建議看來有點兒使小王子震驚。

此時小王子敬愛地笑了起來。這讓我很活力。我不但願本身嚴厲的痛苦遭到彆人嘲笑。然後，他又說道：“那麼，你也是從天上來的了！你是哪個星球上的？”

但是他不答覆我的題目。他悄悄搖擺著腦袋，眼睛一向盯著我的飛機，接著說道：“乘坐它，你不成能是從很遠的處所來的……”

我當時很高傲地奉告他我能飛。他聽到後迷惑地大聲說：“甚麼！你是從天上掉下來的？”

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.