第十五章[第2页/共6页]

“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！”

"Because an explorer who told lies would bring disaster on the books of the geographer. So would an explorer who drank too much.""Why is that" asked the little prince.

“这是为甚么呢？”

“我另有一朵花。”

“你从那里来的呀？”老先生问小王子。

“这是为甚么？这朵花是我的星球上最斑斓的东西！”

因而小王子就走了，他一边走一边想着他的花。

“这确切难说。”地理学家说道。

"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"

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

“我不晓得。”地理学家说。

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