"You are a funny animal," he said at last. "You are no thicker than a finger...""But I am more powerful than the finger of a king," said the snake.
“人在甚么处所？”小王子终究又开口，“在戈壁上，真有点孤傲……”
小王子达到地球时一小我都看不到，他感到非常奇特，当一圈金黄色的玉轮的光芒，闪烁在沙地上时，他开端惊骇他来到了一个弊端的星球。
"This is the Earth; this is Africa," the snake answered.
“任何人被我碰触，我就把他送回他来的处所。”蛇还说，“但是你是纯粹的、实在的，并且是从另一个星球上来的……”
“我落在甚么星球上了？”小王子问道。
“我能够把你带到很远的处所去，比任何一只船能去的处所还要远。”蛇说道。
“噢……莫非说地球上没有人吗？”
“啊！我很明白你的意义。”小王子说，“但是你为甚么说话老是像让人猜谜语似的？”
And they were both silent.
小王子久久地看着蛇。
"What planet is this on which I have come down" asked the little prince.
The little prince sat down on a stone, and raised his eyes toward the sky.
"Ah! Then there are no people on the Earth""This is the desert. There are no people in the desert. The Earth is large," said the snake.
“在这个刻毒无情的地球上，你这么强大，我很不幸你。如果你非常记念你的星球，当时我能够帮忙你。我能够……”
"Good evening," said the little prince courteously.
因而他们又都沉默起来。
"Where are the men" the little prince at last took up the conversation again. "It is a little lonely in the desert...""It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
The little prince gazed at him for a long time.
蛇就盘结在小王子的脚腕子上，像一只金镯子。
“在人群里也一样孤傲的。”蛇说。
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the lamplighters. And I realize that I run the risk of giving a false idea of our planet to those who do not k now it. Men occupy a very small place upon the Earth. If the two billion inhabitants who people its surface were all to stand upright and somewhat crowded together, as they do for some big public assembly, they could easily be put into one public square twenty miles long and twenty miles wide. All humanity could be piled up on a small Pacific islet.