On the second day, I asked a little princenoun.王子, "Where do you come from?" But he did not answer me. He always asked me lotsnoun.许多 and lotsnoun.许多 of questions, but he never answered my questions. "What's that thing?" he asked. "It isn't a thing. It's my plane," I said. "It flies in the sky, but it crashedverb.碰撞 yesterday." "Did you fall out of the sky?" he asked. "Yes, I did," I said. "Oh, that's funny," he said. "That's very funny."
Then he laughednoun.笑 and laughednoun.笑, and I was angry because I did not like his laughnoun.笑. Then he said something strangeadj.陌生的. "You came down from the sky, too? Which planetnoun.行星 are you from?" I started to understandverb.(understood) 理解 this strangeadj.陌生的 boy. "I'm from this planetnoun.行星, Earth," I said. "Where do you come from?" He did not answer me. He wanted to talk about my plane and his sheep, but I knew something about him now. He came from a very small planetnoun.行星.
Every day I learned a bitnoun.一点 more about the little princenoun.王子 and his planetnoun.行星. I also learned about his journeynoun.旅行 to Earth. I do not want to forget anything, and I want you to learn about it, too. I will tell you the story, and I will draw pictures. But you must remember something. I am not very good at drawingnoun.图画, but I will tryverb.尝试 hard. I will not draw a picture of my plane because that is too difficultadj.困难的.
Here is my drawingnoun.图画 of the little princenoun.王子 on his very small planetnoun.行星. On the third day, the little princenoun.王子 told me about his problem with trees. First, he asked me, "Do sheep eat little trees?" "Yes," I said, "sheep eat mostadj.最多的 things." "Good," he said, "my sheep will eat the baobabs." I was very surprisedadj.感到惊讶的. "Baobabs are very big trees," I said. "Your sheep couldn't eat a baobab." "Lotsnoun.许多 and lotsnoun.许多 of elephants couldn't eat one baobab." The little princenoun.王子 laughed.
"That's funny," he said. "My planetnoun.行星 is very small. Could the elephants stand on top of other elephants?" He laughed and laughed, and I drew him a picture. Then he thought hard, and he said, "Baobabs are small trees. Then they grow up and they become big trees." "Of courseadv.当然," I said, "but why do you want the sheep to eat the small baobabs?" He was surprisedadj.感到惊讶的. "Don't you understandverb.(understood) 理解?" he said. "My planetnoun.行星 is very small, and there are lotsnoun.许多 and lotsnoun.许多 of small baobab trees. My sheep must eat them because I can't have big trees on my very small planetnoun.行星.
Big trees will hurt my planetnoun.行星, and people must look after their planetsnoun.行星." "I understandverb.(understood) 理解," I said. "It's bad to have too many big trees on a small planetnoun.行星," he said. "Draw me a beautiful picture of some very big baobab trees on a small planetnoun.行星, please. You can show it to people on Earth." "Yes," I said. "Then people will understandverb.(understood) 理解 baobabs are bad for planetsnoun.行星." I worked very hard on my drawingnoun.图画, and here it is. On the fourth day, the little princenoun.王子 told me about the sunsetsnoun.日落 on his planetnoun.行星.
That morning, he said to me, "I love sunsetsnoun.日落. Let's go and see one." "But we can't," I said. "We have to wait." "What do we have to wait for?" he asked. "We have to wait until the end of the day, of course," I said. He looked very surprisedadj.感到惊讶的. Then he started to laugh. "I'm stupidadj.愚蠢的," he said. "I'm on Earth, not at home." I understoodverb.(understood) 理解. "On Earth, a big planetnoun.行星. We can see a sunsetnoun.日落 in one country, but we cannot see a second sunsetnoun.日落 in another country one minute after the first sunsetnoun.日落."
On the little princenoun.王子's planetnoun.行星, a very small planetnoun.行星, he could sit in his chair and watch a sunsetnoun.日落. Then he could move his chair and watch another sunsetnoun.日落. One day, he told me, I watched forty-three sunsetsnoun.日落. He also said, "Sunsetsnoun.日落 are very beautiful, and beautiful things are importantadj.重要的. But sunsetsnoun.日落 are sad, too." "You saw forty-three beautiful sunsetsnoun.日落?" I said, "Were you sad that day?" But he did not answer me.