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“一点不错，”地理学家说，“但是我不是探险家。我部下一个探险家都没有。地理学家是不去计算都会、河道、山脉、陆地、戈壁的。地理学家很首要，不能到处跑。他不能分开他的办公室。但他能够在办公室里访问探险家。他扣问探险家，把他们的回想记录下来。如果他以为此中有个探险家的回想是成心机的，那么地理学家就对这个探险家的品德做一番调查。”

"Exactly," the geographer said. "But I am not an explorer. I haven’t a single explorer on my planet. It is not the geographer who goes out to count the towns, the rivers, the mountains, the seas, the oceans, and the deserts. The geographer is much too important to go loafing about. He does not leave his desk. But he receives the explorers in his study. He asks them questions, and he notes down what they recall of their travels. And if the recollections of any one among them seem interesting to him, the geographer orders an inquiry into that explorer’s moral character.""Why is that"

“我是地理学家。”老先生说。

“啊！我那边，”小王子说道，“没有多粗心义，那儿甚么都很小。我有三座火山，两座是活的，一座是燃烧了的。但是也很难说它还会不会喷发。”

"Your planet is very beautiful," he said. "Has it any oceans""I couldn't tell you," said the geographer.

“恰好，你是从远方来的！你是个探险家！你来给我先容一下你的星球吧！”

"I have also a flower."

"What place would you advise me to visit now" he asked.

“但是燃烧的火山也能够会再复苏的。”小王子打断了地理学家，“甚么叫长久？”

“甚么是地理学家？”

“地理学家就是一种学者，他晓得那里有陆地，那里有河道、都会、山脉、戈壁。”