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我花了好长时候才明白他是从那里来的。小王子问我很多题目，我有很多迷惑，但是，对我提出的题目，小王子仿佛压根儿没有闻声似的。一点一点的，偶尔间他偶然中透露的一些只言片语逐步使我搞清了他的来源。比方，当他第一次瞥见我的飞机时（我就不画出我的飞机了，因为这类丹青对我来讲太庞大），他问我道：“这是个甚么玩意儿呀？”

但是他不答复我的题目。他悄悄摇摆着脑袋，眼睛一向盯着我的飞机，接着说道：“乘坐它，你不成能是从很远的处所来的……”

接着，他或许略带伤感地又弥补了一句：“一向朝前走，也不会走出多远……”

“这没有甚么干系，我那边统统都很小很小。”

Chapter 3

“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”

他深思了一会儿，然后答复我说：“幸亏有你给我的那只箱子，夜晚能够给小羊当屋子用。”

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.

“那当然。如果你听话的话，我再给你画一根绳索，白日能够拴住它。再加上一个木桩。”

“哦！这真不成思议。”

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.

He cried out, then: "What! You dropped down from the sky""Yes," I answered, modestly.

但是，我的建议看来有点儿使小王子震惊。

这时，我俄然有点明白他为甚么会在这里，对于他奥秘呈现这个费解的奥妙，我模糊发明了一点线索。因而，我间断了他的发问，迫不及待地问道：“你是从另一个星球上来的吗？”

此时小王子敬爱地笑了起来。这让我很活力。我不但愿本身严厉的痛苦遭到别人嘲笑。然后，他又说道：“那么，你也是从天上来的了！你是哪个星球上的？”

Then he added: "So you, too, come from the sky! Which is your planet"At that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his presence; and I demanded, abruptly: "Do you come from another planet"But he did not reply. He tossed his head gently, without taking his eyes from my plane: "It is true that on that you can’t have come from very far away..."And he sank into a reverie, which lasted a long time. Then, taking my sheep out of his pocket, he buried himself in the contemplation of his treasure.