"Oh! That is funny!"
“如果你不拴住它，”我说，“它就到处跑，会跑丢的。”
He cried out, then: "What! You dropped down from the sky""Yes," I answered, modestly.
我的这位朋友又收回清脆的笑声：“你想它能跑到那里去呀？”
“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。”
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？”
他深思了一会儿，然后答复我说：“幸亏有你给我的那只箱子，夜晚能够给小羊当屋子用。”
“哦！这真不成思议。”
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.
这时，小王子慎重其事地说：
“是的。”我谦逊地答道。
“任那边所。它一向往前跑……”
“这没有甚么干系，我那边统统都很小很小。”
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.