The Little Prince 小王子 - Chapter 2
本篇摘要：
The narrator crashes in the desert and makes the acquaintance of the little prince.
敘述者在沙漠墜機，結識小王子。
So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs all alone. It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.
我就這樣孤零零地過著我的日子，找不到一個真正可以談得來的人，直到六年前在撒哈拉沙漠發生的那次飛機事故。我的發動機的某個零件壞了。由於身邊既沒有機械師，也沒有任何乘客，我就只得靠自己解決這個大難題，把飛機修好。對我來說，這個問題性命攸關：剩下的飲用水不足以維持一個星期。
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice. It said:
接下來的第一天晚上，我睡在沙漠上，在人間煙火的一千英里之外。與汪洋大海中伏在木排上的遇難水手相比，我更加孤立無援。因此，可以想象，當第二天拂曉一個怪異的聲音輕輕把我喚醒時，我有多驚奇。這個聲音說：
"If you please—draw me a sheep!"
“如果你願意的話，給我畫只羊吧！”
"What!" “什麼！”
"Draw me a sheep!" “給我畫一隻羊吧！”
I jumped to my feet, completely thunderstruck. I blinked my eyes hard. I looked carefully all around me. And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness. Here you may see the best potrait that, later, I was able to make of him. But my drawing is certainly very much less charming than its model.
我一下子站了起來，完全驚呆了。我使勁眨了眨眼睛。仔細地看了看周圍。我見到一個特別奇怪的小人站在那裡凝望著我，一臉的嚴肅。這裡你看到的，可能是後來我給他畫的最好的一幅畫像。不過，與它的原型相比，我的畫當然要遜色得多。
That, however, is not my fault. The grown—ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.
但那並不是我的錯。大人們在我六歲的時候打擊了我對繪畫生涯的熱情，除了畫出肚子裡情形的蟒蛇和只有外部輪廓的蟒蛇，我就再也沒學過畫其他東西了。
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