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“拴住它？多麼奇特的主張啊！”

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.

Chapter 3

“是的。”我謙遜地答道。

“這冇有甚麼乾係，我那邊統統都很小很小。”

我的這位朋友又收回清脆的笑聲：“你想它能跑到那裡去呀？”

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: "That doesn’t matter. Where I live, everything is so small!"And, with perhaps a hint of sadness, he added: "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.

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？”

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