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“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”

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……”

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？”

但是，我的建議看來有點兒使小王子震驚。

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。”

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.

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？”

“拴住它？多麼奇特的主張啊！”

“是的。”我謙遜地答道。

After a reflective silence he answered: "The thing that is so good about the box you have given me is that at night he can use it as his house.""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."But the little prince seemed shocked by this offer: "Tie him! What a queer idea!"“But if you don’t tie him,” I said, “he will wander off somewhere, and get lost.”