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“哦！这真不成思议。”

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。”

"Oh! That is funny!"

我的这位朋友又收回清脆的笑声：“你想它能跑到那里去呀？”

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..."

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？”

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.

这时，小王子慎重其事地说：

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.