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“是的。”我謙遜地答道。

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……”

“這不是‘玩意兒’。它能飛。這是飛機，是我的飛機。”

接著，他或許略帶傷感地又彌補了一句：“一向朝前走，也不會走出多遠……”

"Oh! That is funny!"

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.

“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”

“你是從那裡來的，我的小傢夥？你說的‘我住的處所’是指甚麼？你要把你的小綿羊帶到那裡去？”

“那當然。如果你聽話的話，我再給你畫一根繩索，白日能夠拴住它。再加上一個木樁。”

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？”

這時，小王子慎重其事地說：

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？”

我花了好長時候才明白他是從那裡來的。小王子問我很多題目，我有很多迷惑，但是，對我提出的題目，小王子彷彿壓根兒冇有聞聲似的。一點一點的，偶爾間他偶然中透露的一些隻言片語逐步使我搞清了他的來源。比方，當他第一次瞥見我的飛機時（我就不畫出我的飛機了，因為這類丹青對我來講太龐大），他問我道：“這是個甚麼玩意兒呀？”

他深思了一會兒，然後答覆我說：“幸虧有你給我的那隻箱子，夜晚能夠給小羊當屋子用。”

Then he added: "So you, too, come from the sky! Which is your planet"At that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his presence; and I demanded, abruptly: "Do you come from another planet"But he did not reply. He tossed 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, which lasted a long time. Then, taking my sheep out of his pocket, he buried himself in the contemplation of his treasure.