第十五章[第1页/共6页]

“这是为甚么？这朵花是我的星球上最斑斓的东西！”

“这是为甚么呢？”

"And towns, and rivers, and deserts""I couldn't tell you that, either.""But you are a geographer!"

“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。”

“甚么叫长久？”

“啊！”小王子大失所望，“那么，山脉呢？”

“我们是不记录花草的。”地理学家说。

“火山是燃烧了的也好，复苏的也好，这对我们这些人来讲都是一回事。”地理学家说，“对我们来讲，首要的是山。山是不会变更位置的。”

"Oh, look! Here is an explorer!" he exclaimed to himself when he saw the little prince coming.

"It means, ‘which is in danger of speedy disappearance.'""Is my flower in danger of speedy disappearance""Certainly it is."

“因为喝醉了酒的人把一个当作两个，那么，地理学家就会把只要一座山的处所写成两座山。”

"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"