小王子（第九章）

Chapter9...



Chapter 9

I believe that for his excape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order. He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes. He possessed two active volcanoes; and they were very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning. He also had one volcano that was extinct. But, as he said," One never knows!" So he cleaned out the extinct volcano, too. If they are well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions. Volcanic eruptions are lire fires in a chimney.

On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes. That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us.

The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs. He believed that he would never want to return. But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him. And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe, he realised that he was very close to tears.

"Goodbye," he said to the flower.

But she made no answer.

"Goodbye," he said again.

The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold.

"I have been silly," she said to him, at last. “I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy..."

He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness.

"Of course I love you," the flower said to him. "It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you--you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy...let the glass globe be I don't want it any more."

"But the wind--"

"My cold is not so bad as all that... the cool night air will do me good. I am a flower."

"But the animals--"

"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies--and the caterpillars--who will call upon me? You will be afraid of any of them. I have my claws."

And, naively, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:

"Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!"

For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower...



第九章

我知道小王子乘着一群野鸟离开了他的星球，在他离开的那个早上，他完美的安排好了星球上的事情。他仔细的清洗了他的活火山，他一共有两座活火山，早上用来热早餐再方便不过。他还有一座休眠火山，但就像他说的，“谁知道它是不是（活火山）呢！”所以他同样清洗了这座火山。如果你仔细清扫它们之后，它们就会烧的比较缓慢和稳定，而且不会喷发。火山喷发就跟烟囱冒火一样。

在地球，火山太大，而我们又太小，所以不可能清洗它们，这也是为什么它们给我们带来了无尽的麻烦。

小王子有些沮丧的拔出了最后一棵猴面包树的苗，因为他觉得自己不可能再回来这里了。最后一个早晨，往常那些再普通不过的工作对他来说都显得弥足珍贵。他最后一次浇那朵花的时候，他准备给她盖一个玻璃罩子，他觉得自己快要哭了。

“再见了，”他对那朵花说。

但是她没有回答。

“再见了，”他又说了一次。

她开始咳嗽，不过不是因为她着凉了。

“我真是个笨蛋，”她说，“我希望能够得到你的原谅，高兴起来吧......”

他有些惊讶她没有责备他，他困惑的站在那，玻璃罩举在半空，他不明白这安静的甜蜜。

“我很喜欢你，”她说。“一直以来都是我的错，这都不重要，可你和我一样是个笨蛋，高兴起来吧......别管那个玻璃罩了，我不需要它了。”

“可是那个风......”

“我一直都没有觉得很冷......寒冷的夜晚对我有用，我是一朵花呀。”

“可是那动物呢......”

“好吧，如果我想跟蝴蝶交朋友的话，我就要忍耐那两三只毛虫，他们好像会变得非常漂亮。而且如果不是那些蝴蝶和那些毛虫，有谁会来看我呢？你要到很远的地方去......而且就算有大的动物，我也不是很怕他们，我也有我的爪子。”

然后，她还天真的给他看了看她四根刺，接着说：

“不要在这里逗留了，你离开这里吧，现在就走！”

因为她不想让他看到她在哭泣，她是那样骄傲的花朵呀......

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