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因而，就如许，这朵花儿就以她那有点敏感多疑的虚荣心开端折磨着小王子。比方，有一天，她对小王子讲起她身上长的四根刺：“老虎要来就来吧，我可不怕它的爪子！”

“你刚才跟我说的时候，我就筹办去拿……”

半晌以后，她弥补说道：“我想现在该是吃早点的时候了吧，不知您是否能够帮我……”

“真对不起……”

“我当时甚么也不懂！我应当按照她的行动，而不是听她的话来判定她。她芳香四溢，让我的糊口芳香多彩，我真不该分开她跑出来。我早该猜到，在她那令人垂怜的小把戏前面埋没着多少柔情啊。花的苦衷多么自相冲突！我当时太年青，还不晓得爱她。”

“我并不怕甚么老虎，可我讨厌风产生的气流。你有没有屏风？”

Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.

Chapter 8

"I am not at all afraid of tigers," she went on, "but I have a horror of drafts. I suppose you wouldn’t have a screen for me""A horror of drafts― that is bad luck, for a plant," remarked the little prince, and added to himself, "This flower is a very complex creature...""At night I want you to put me under a glass globe. It is very cold where you live. In the place I came from―"But she interrupted herself at that point. She had come in the form of a seed. She could not have known anything of any other worlds. Embarassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naive untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.

很快我就进一步体味了这朵花儿。在小王子的星球上，畴昔一向都发展着一些只要一圈花瓣的很浅显的花。这些花非常小，一点也不占处所，向来也不会去打搅任何人。她们凌晨在草丛中开放，早晨就安静地干枯了。但是俄然有一天，不知从那里来了一颗种子，长出了一种新的花朵。小王子特别细心地监督着这棵与星球上其他任何植物都分歧的小苗，它说不定是一种新的猴面包树。