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They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like What games does he love best Does he collect butterflies"Instead, they demand: "How old is he How many brothers has he How much does he weigh How much money does his father make" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

Grown-ups are like that...

這倒並冇有使我感到太奇特。我曉得除地球、木星、火星、金星這幾個馳稱呼的大行星以外，還稀有以百計彆的星球，它們有的小得很，就是用望遠鏡也很丟臉見。當一個天文學者發明瞭此中一個星球，他不會給它一個名字，而是給它編上一個號碼，比方把它稱做“325小行星”。

我還體味到第二件首要的事，就是小王子地點的阿誰星球比一座屋子大不了多少。

It is for that purpose, again, that I have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six. I shall certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not at all sure of success. One drawing goes along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject. I make some errors, too, in the littl e prince’s height: in one place he is too tall and in another too short. And I feel some doubts about the color of his costume. So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair-to-middling.