第二十五章[第1页/共6页]

"The men where you live," said the little prince, "raise five thousand roses in the same garden― and they do not find in it what they are looking for.""They do not find it," I replied.

我把水桶提到他的嘴边。他闭着眼睛喝口水。就像过节普通镇静甜美。这水确切分歧于普通补给品，它是我们披星戴月走了很多路才找到的，是在辘轳的歌声中，颠末我双手的尽力得来的。它像是一件礼品安慰着我的心灵。在我小的时候，圣诞树的灯光，半夜里弥撒的音乐，甜美的浅笑，这统统都使我圣诞节时收到的礼品辉映着幸运的光彩。

"Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round..."And he added:

我们找到的这口井，和撒哈拉的那些井不一样。撒哈拉的井只是戈壁中挖的洞。这口井很像村庄中的井。但是，那边又没有任何村落，我想我必然是在梦中。

“但是，他们要找的东西，或许就在一朵玫瑰花或一点儿水中……”

小王子脸又红了。他向来也不答复这些题目，但是，脸红就即是说“是的”，是吧？

“你听，”小王子说，“我们唤醒了这口井，它现在唱起歌来了……”

One question, however, occurred to me:"Then it was not by chance that on the morning when I first met you― a week ago― you were strolling along like that, all alone, a thousand miles from any inhabited region You were on the your back to the place where you landed"The little prince flushed again.

“能够是因为周年到了吧？……”

And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.

I had been so proud of my baobabs!