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Chapter 3

“你是从那里来的，我的小家伙？你说的‘我住的处所’是指甚么？你要把你的小绵羊带到那里去？”

“是的。”我谦逊地答道。

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.

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

“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”

The first time he saw my airplane, for instance (I shall not draw my airplane; that would be much too complicated for me), he asked me: "What is that object""That is not an object. It flies. It is an airplane. It is my airplane." And I was proud to have him learn that I could fly.

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……”

“拴住它？多么奇特的主张啊！”

但是，我的建议看来有点儿使小王子震惊。

“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。”

My friend broke into another peal of laughter: "But where do you think he would go""Anywhere. Straight ahead of him."Then the little prince said, earnestly: "That doesn’t matter. Where I live, everything is so small!"And, with perhaps a hint of sadness, he added: "Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far..."