It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me.
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
“如果你不拴住它，”我说，“它就到处跑，会跑丢的。”
“这不是‘玩意儿’。它能飞。这是飞机，是我的飞机。”
“这没有甚么干系，我那边统统都很小很小。”
“那当然。如果你听话的话，我再给你画一根绳索，白日能够拴住它。再加上一个木桩。”
“是的。”我谦逊地答道。
此时小王子敬爱地笑了起来。这让我很活力。我不但愿本身严厉的痛苦遭到别人嘲笑。然后，他又说道：“那么，你也是从天上来的了！你是哪个星球上的？”
“拴住它？多么奇特的主张啊！”
这时，我俄然有点明白他为甚么会在这里，对于他奥秘呈现这个费解的奥妙，我模糊发明了一点线索。因而，我间断了他的发问，迫不及待地问道：“你是从另一个星球上来的吗？”
但是他不答复我的题目。他悄悄摇摆着脑袋，眼睛一向盯着我的飞机，接着说道：“乘坐它，你不成能是从很远的处所来的……”
我的这位朋友又收回清脆的笑声：“你想它能跑到那里去呀？”
“哦！这真不成思议。”
The first time he saw my airplane, for instance (I shall not draw my airplane; that would be much too complicated for me), he asked me: "What is that object""That is not an object. It flies. It is an airplane. It is my airplane." And I was proud to have him learn that I could fly.