第十七章[第1页/共4页]

“我落在甚么星球上了？”小王子问道。

“你并不那么有能力……你连脚都没有……你乃至都不能观光……”

"You are a funny animal," he said at last. "You are no thicker than a finger...""But I am more powerful than the finger of a king," said the snake.

"I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again... Look at my planet. It is right there above us. But how far away it is!""It is beautiful," the snake said. "What has brought you here""I have been having some trouble with a flower," said the little prince.

小王子久久地看着蛇。

“在人群里也一样孤傲的。”蛇说。

“我能够把你带到很远的处所去，比任何一只船能去的处所还要远。”蛇说道。

“人在甚么处所？”小王子终究又开口，“在戈壁上，真有点孤傲……”

"Good evening," said the snake.

“在地球上，这里是非洲。”蛇答复道。

"Where are the men" the little prince at last took up the conversation again. "It is a little lonely in the desert...""It is also lonely among men," the snake said.

Chapter 17

"Whomever I touch, I send back to the earth from whence he came," the snake spoke again. "But you are innocent and true, and you come from a star..."The little prince made no reply.

The little prince gazed at him for a long time.