小王子（英文）(txt+pdf+epub+mobi电子书下载)

作者：（法）安东尼·德·圣埃克苏佩里（Exupery. S.）

出版社：电子工业出版社

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圣埃克苏佩里，1900年出生于法国里昂。他一生眷恋蓝天，热爱飞行，曾在法国空军服役，也曾作为民航飞行员参与开辟南美洲新航线。二战期间，他不顾伤病和超龄的状况，再次驾机上天。1944年7月31日，他从科西嘉岛的博尔戈出发，只身前往里昂地区执行侦察任务，从此再没有回来。《小王子》是圣埃克苏佩里最富盛名的作品，被誉为20世纪除《圣经》外最广为阅读的书籍。它明白晓畅，温情脉脉，清澈的语言下蕴含着深刻的道理。孩子们喜欢读，因为小王子就是他们自己；大人们喜欢读，因为怜惜追忆那个逝去的也曾是小王子的自己。这是一本献给现实和心灵的孩子的书，愿我们永远保持一颗真心，不要丢失掉自己的小羊、玫瑰和星星，这样，就能永远和小王子在一起。Chapter 1

To Leon Werth

I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grownup can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted. If all these reasons are not enough, then I want to dedicate the book to the child whom this grownup once was. All grown-ups were children first. (Although few of them remember it.) So I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth

When he was a little boy

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificentpicture in a book about the jungle, called True Stories from Nature. It showed a boa constrictorswallowing a wild beast. Here is a copy of the picture.

In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep during the six months of their digestion. "

In those days I thought a lot about jungle adventures, and eventually managed to make my first drawing, using a colored pencil. My drawing Number One looked like this:

I showed my masterpieceto the grown-ups, and I asked them if my drawing scared them.

They answered": Why be scared of a hat?"

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need explanations. My drawing Number Two looked like this:

The grown-ups advised me to put away my drawings of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my drawing Number One and my drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresomefor children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

So then I had to choose another career, and I learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown almost everywhere in the world. And, as a matter of fact, geography has been a big help to me. I could tell China from Arizona at first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the night.

So I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounterswith lots of serious people. I have lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range, which hasn't much improved my opinion of them.

Whenever I encountered a grown-up who seemed to me at all enlightened, I would experiment on him with my drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I wanted to see if he really understood anything. But he would always answer, "That is a hat." Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors or jungles or stars. I would put myself on his level and talk about bridge and golf and politics and neckties. And my grown-up was glad to know such a reasonable person.佳句赏析1．The grown-ups advised me to put away my drawings of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.

>大人们劝我把这些画着开着肚皮的、或闭上肚皮的蟒蛇的图画丢掉，把心思放在地理、历史、算术和语法上。

*介词短语作插入语；apply oneself to…致力于……2．I could tell China from Arizona at first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the night.

>我一眼就能分辨出哪是中国，哪是亚里桑那。要是夜里迷失了航向，这是很有用的。

*which引导的是非限定性定语从句，用逗号与主句隔开，修饰整个主句；tell在本句中表示“确切地判断”；at first glance，（只）一眼，表示这个意思更常用at a (single) glance。3．Whenever I encountered a grown-up who seemed to me at all enlightened, I would experiment on him with my drawing Number One, which I have always kept.

>有时，遇到看起来挺明白的大人，我就拿出一直保存的一号作品来试探他一下。

*这是一个时间状语从句，从句和主句又各自嵌套一个定语从句；experiment on sb; experiment with sth进行试验。4．I would put myself on his level and talk about bridge and golf and politics and neckties.

>我只得迁就他们的水平，和他们谈些桥牌呀，高尔夫球呀，政治呀，领带什么的。

*put myself on his level；用bridge、golf、politics和neckties指代成人之间空洞无聊的话题。名句大搜索1．每人大人都曾经是孩子（然而，记得这事儿的没几个）。2．一顶帽子有什么可怕的？3．就这样，在六岁那年，我放弃了当画家这一美好职业的心愿。4．这些大人们自己什么也弄不懂，老要孩子们一遍一遍地给他们解释，真烦人。5．我在大人们中间生活过很长时间。我仔细地观察过他们，但这并没有改变多少我对他们的看法。Chapter 2|第二章I Encounter The Little Prince|邂逅小王子中文导读

大人们听不懂我说话，也看不懂我的1号作品，于是我孤独地生活着，找不到可以谈心的人。直到一次飞行事故，把我抛到荒无人烟的撒哈拉沙漠；直到一个小小的声音把我唤醒，请求我为他画一只小羊……

小王子是个小小的人儿，长着金色的头发，喜欢格格地笑。他有一只小羊，住在我给他画的箱子里。他喜欢提问，却很少回答。他所住的星球，比一座房子大不了多少……在最不可思议的时间和地方，我认识了小王子，并开始一点点了解他。Chapter 2

So I lived all alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had to make a crash landing in the Sahara Desert six years ago. Something in my plane's engine had broken, and since I had neither a mechanicnor passengers in the plane with me, I was preparing to undertake the difficult repair job by myself. For me it was a matter of life or death: I had scarcely enough drinking water for eight days.

The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand a thousand miles from any inhabitedcountry. I was more isolated than a man shipwreckedon a raft in the middle of the ocean. So you can imagine my surprise when I was awakened at daybreak by a funny little voice saying, "Please... draw me a sheep... "

"What?"

"Draw me a sheep... "

I leaped up as if I had been struck by lightning. I rubbedmy eyes hard. I stared. And I saw an extraordinary little fellow staring back at me very seriously. Here is the best portraitI managed to make of him, later on. But of course my drawing is much less attractive than my model. That however is not my fault. The grownups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old and I never learned to draw anything except boa constrictors, outside and inside.

So I stared wide-eyedat this apparition. Remember I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited territory. Yet this little fellow seemed to be neither lost nor dying of exhaustion, hunger or thirst; nor did he seem scared to death. There was nothing in his appearance that suggested a child lost in the middle of the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited territory. When I finally managed to speak, I asked him, "But...what are you doing here?"

And then he repeated, very slowly and very seriously,"Please...draw me a sheep... "

In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey. Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket. But then I remembered that I had mostly studied geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar, and I told the little fellow (rather crossly) that I did not know how to draw.

He replied, "That doesn't matter. Draw me a sheep. "

Since I had never drawn a sheep, I made him one of the only two drawings I knew how to make—the one of the boa constrictor from outside. And I was astoundedto hear the little fellow answer:

"No! No! I don't want an elephant inside a boa constrictor. A boa constrictor is very dangerous, and an elephant would get in the way. Where I live, everything is very small. I need a sheep. Draw me a sheep. "

So then I made a drawing.

He looked at it carefully, and then said, "No. This one is already quite sick. Make me another. "

I made another drawing.

My friend gave me a kind, indulgentsmile:

"You see for yourself...that is not a sheep, it is a ram. It has horns..."

So I made my third drawing, but it was rejected, like the others.

"This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time. "

So then, impatiently, since I was in a hurry to start work on my engine, I scribbledthis drawing, and added, "This is just the crate. The sheep you want is inside. "

But I was amazed to see my young critic's face light up."That's just the kind I wanted! Do you think this sheep will need a lot of grass? "

"Why?"

"Because where I live, everything is very small... "

"There's sure to be enough. I have given you a very small sheep. "

He bent over the drawing. "Not so small as all that...Look! He has gone to sleep... "

And that is how I made the acquaintanceof the little prince.

It took me a long time to understand where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was things he said quite at random that, bit by bit, explained everything. For instance, when he first caught sight of my airplane (I won't draw my airplane; that would be much too complicated for me) he asked:

After a thoughtfulsilence he answered: "The good thing about the crate you have given me is that he can use it for a house after dark."

"Of course. And if you are good, I will give you a rope to tie him up during the day, and a staketo tie him to."

This propositionseemed to shock the little prince.

"Tie him up! What a queeridea!"

"But if you don't tie him up, he will wander off somewhere and get lost."

My friend burst out laughing again: "Where could he go?"

"Anywhere. Straight ahead ..."

Then the little prince remarked quite seriously:

"That doesn't matter. Where I live, everything is so small!"

And he added, perhaps a little sadly, "Straight ahead, you can't go very far."

That was how I had learned a second very important thing, which was that the planet he came from was scarcelybigger than a house!

But that couldn't surprise me much. I knew very well except for the huge planets like the Earth, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, which have been given names, there are also hundreds of others that are sometimes so small that it's very difficult to see them through a telescope. When an astronomerdiscovers one of them, he gives it a number instead of a name. For instance, he would call it"Asteroid325”.

I have serious reasons to believe that the planet the little prince came from is Asteroid B-612.

This asteroid has been sighted only once by telescope, in 1909 by a Turkish astronomer, who had then made a formal demonstrationof his discovery at an International Astronomical Congress. But no one had believed him on account of the way he was dressed. Grown-ups are like that.

Fortunately for the reputationof Asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictatorordered his people, on pain of death, to wear European clothes. The astronomer repeated his demonstration in 1920, wearing a very elegantsuit. And this time everybody believed him.

If I have told you these details about Asteroid B-612 and if I have given you its number, it is on account of the grownups. Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never asked: "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 does he have? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only then do they think they know him. If you tell grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniumsat the windows and doves on the roof..."they would not be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them: "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs." Then they would exclaim: "What a pretty house!"

So if you tell them: "The proof that the little prince's existence is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he wanted a sheep. When someone wants a sheep, that proves he exists." They shrug their shoulders and treat you like a child! But if you tell them: "The planet he came from is Asteroid B-612," then they will be convinced, and they won't bother you with their questions. That is the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearancetoward grown-ups.

But, of course, those of us who understand life couldn't care less about numbers! I should have liked to begin this story like a fairy tale. I should have liked to say:"Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely any bigger than he was, and who needed of a friend..."For those who understand life, that would sound much truer.

The fact is, I don't want my book to be taken lightly. Telling these memories is so painful for me. It's already been six years since my friend went away, taking his sheep with him. If I try to describe him here, it is so I won't forget him. It's sad to forget a friend. Not everyone has had a friend. And I might become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but numbers. This is still another reason why I have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to go back to drawing, at my age, when you have never made any attempts since the one of a boa constrictor from inside and the one of a boa constrictor from outside, at the age of six! I will certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not entirely sure of succeeding. One drawing works, and the next no longer bears any resemblance. And I am a little off on his height, too. In this one the little prince is too tall, and here he's too short. And I am uncertain about the color of his suit. So I gropein one direction and another, as best I can. In the end, I'm sure to get certain more important details all wrong. But here you have to forgive me. My friend never explained anything. Perhaps he thought I was like himself. But I, unfortunately, cannot see a sheep through the sides of a crate. I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.佳句赏析1．I was more isolated than a man shipwrecked on a raft in the middle of the ocean.

>我比大海中伏在小木排上的遇难者还要孤独。

*比较级与than连用，意即“比……更”；过去分词做后置定语。2．I leaped up as if I had been struck by lightning.

>我像被雷电击中一般，一下子跳了起来。

*明喻；had+过去分词，构成过去完成时，表示在过去某个动作或某个具体时间之前已经发生、完成的动作或情况，as if引出虚拟语气。3．Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket.

>在这远离人烟并受着死亡威胁的情况下，尽管这样的举动使我感到十分荒诞，但我还是从口袋里掏出了一张纸和一支钢笔。

*倒装结构和句首的强调，强调表语和状语，as作“尽管”时句子倒装。4．It was things he said quite at random that, bit by bit, explained everything.

>我从他无意中吐露的一些话里，一点一点搞清他的来历。

*结构强调的一种类型，it is（was）+名词（代词，形容词）+that（who, whom, which, whose）+句子。这里被强调的名词things后面跟着一个省略了关系代词that的定语从句，另外中间有插入语bit by bit。名句大搜索1．当一种神秘的东西把你镇住的时候，你是不敢违抗它的。2．大人们就喜欢数字。3．我看到一幢用玫瑰色的砖盖成的漂亮房子，它的窗户上有天竺葵，屋顶上还有鸽子……4．小孩子应该对大人们宽厚些。5．可是，很遗憾，我却不能透过盒子看见小羊。我大概已经有点像那些大人了。Chapter 3|第三章The Baobabs And The Forty-four Sunsets|猴面包树和四十四次落日中文导读

从谈话中，我了解了更多关于小王子星球上的事。在他那里，有一种可怕的植物，如果不及时发现，就会酿成大祸……在他那里，只要稍稍挪动椅子，就能一次又一次地看到落日，有一天，他看了四十四次……

还是从谈话中，我发现了小王子的一个秘密，他深爱着一朵花儿，担心她被小羊吃掉。而在这之前，不明就里的我那么粗暴地对待小王子的真心，是他的眼泪让我明白，什么才是世界上最重要的事，那些没闻过花香、没望过星星、没爱过一个人的人，是蘑菇。Chapter 3

Every day I'd learn something about the little prince's planet, about his departure, about his journey. It would come quite gradually, in the course of his remarks. This was how I learned, on the third day, about the catastropheof the baobabs.

This time, once more, I had the sheep to thank, for suddenly the little prince asked me a question, as if overcome by a grave doubt:

"Isn't it true that sheep eat bushes?"

"Yes, that is true."

"Ah! I am glad!"

I didn't understand why it was so important that sheep should eat bushes. But the little prince added:

"And therefore they also eat baobabs?"

I pointed out to the little prince that baobabs are not bushes but trees as tall as churches, and that even if he took a whole herdof elephants back to his planet, that herd could not finish off a single baobab.

The idea of the herd of elephants made the little prince laugh.

"We would have to pile them one on top of one another.

"But he observed perceptively:

"Before they grow big, baobabs start out by being little."

"True enough! But why do you want the sheep to eat little baobabs?"

He answered: "Oh, come on! You know!" as if we were talking about something quite obvious. And I was forced to make a great mental effort to understand this problem all by myself.

And, indeed, on the little prince's planet there were--as on all planets―good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth's darkness until one of them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed stretchesand begin―timidlyat first―to push a charming little sprig inoffensivelyupward toward the sun. If it is a sprout of radishor the sprigof a rose-bush, you can let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, you must pull the plant up right away, as soon as you can recognizes it. As it happens, there were terrible seeds on the little prince's planet…baobab seeds. The soil of that planet was infestedwith them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. Its roots pierce right though. And if the planet is too small, and if there are too many baobabs, they make it burst into pieces.

"It is a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. You must be sure you pull up all the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It is very tediouswork, but very easy."

And one day he advised me to do my best to make a beautiful drawing, for the edificationof the children where I live. "If they travel someday," he told me, "it could be useful to them. Sometimes there's no harm in postponingyour work until later. But with baobabs, it's always a catastrophe. I knew one planet that was inhabited by a lazy man. He had neglected three bushes..."

So, following the little prince's instructions, I have drawn the planet. I don't much like assuming the tone of a moralist. But the danger of the baobabs is so little recognized, and the risks run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for once I am making an exception to my habitual reserve. I say: "Children, watch out for baobabs!" It's to warn my friends of a danger of which they, like myself, have long been unaware that I worked so hard on this drawing. The lesson I am teaching is worth the trouble. You may be asking:"Why are there no other drawings in this book as magnificent and impressive as this drawing of the baobabs?" The reply is simple. I tried. But with the others I have not been successful. When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life. For a long time your only entertainmentwas the pleasure of looking at the sunset. I learned this new detail on the morning of the fourth day, when you told me:

"I really like sunsets. Let's go look at one now!"

"But we have to wait…"

"What for?"

"For the sun to set."

At first you seemed quite surprised, and then you laughed at yourself. And you said to me: "I think I'm still at home!"

Indeed. Everybody knows that when it's noon in the United States, the sun is setting over France. If you could fly to France in one minute, you could watch the sunset. Unfortunately France is much too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need to do is move your chair a few steps. And you would watch the twilightwhenever you wanted to...

"One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!"

And a little later you added: "You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunset are wonderful..."

"On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling very sad?"

But the little prince made no reply.

On the fifth day, thanks again to the sheep, another secret of the little prince's life was revealed to me. Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditationon his problem, he asked me:

"A sheep--if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?"

"A sheep eats whatever it finds."

"Even flowers that have thorns?"

"Yes. Even flowers that have thorns."

"Then what good are thorns?"

I didn't know. At that moment I was very busy trying to unscrewa boltthat was jammedin my engine. I was quite worried, for my plane crash was beginning to seem extremely serious, and the lack of drinking water made me fear the worst.

"What good are thorns?"

The little prince never let go of a question once he had asked it. I was annoyed by my jammed bolt, and I answered without thinking:

"Thorns are no good for anything—they are just the flowers' way of being mean!"

"Oh!"

But after a silence, he lashed out at me, with a sort of bitterness:

"I don't believe you! Flowers are weak. They are naive. They

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