“这是号令。”点灯人答复道。
“那么为甚么你又把它点着了呢？”
他可惜地叹了口气，并且又对本身说道：“这小我是统统人当中独一能够和我交朋友的，但是他的星球确切太小了，住不下两小我……”
点灯的人说：“号令没有改，悲剧在这里了。这颗行星一年比一年转得更快，而号令却没有改。”
For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.
The little prince went on with his explanation:"Your planet is so small that three strides will take you all the way around it. To be always in the sunshine, you need only walk along rather slowly. When you want to rest, you will walk― and the day will last as long as you like.""That doesn't do me much good," said the lamplighter. "The one thing I love in life is to sleep.""Then you're unlucky," said the little prince.
小王子没有勇气承认，他之以是在分开这颗星球时感到最不舍，是因为这里每一个被祝贺的日子里，有一千四百四十次日落！
然后他拿一块有红方格子的手绢擦着额头。
"But why have you just lighted it again""Those are the orders," replied the lamplighter.
“你的这颗行星如许小，你三步便能够绕它一圈。你只要渐渐地走，便能够一向在太阳的晖映下，你想歇息的时候，你就如许走……那么，你要白日有多长它就有多长。”
但他还是对本身说：“能够这小我思惟不普通。但他比起国王，比起阿谁傲慢自大的人、阿谁贩子和酒鬼，却要好些。起码他的事情另有点意义。当他点着了他的路灯时，就像他点亮了一颗星星，或是一朵花。当他燃烧了路灯时，就像是让星星或花朵睡着了似的。这差事真美好，那就是真正有效的了。”
“那么，厥后号令窜改了，是吗？”
“一点兴趣也没有，”点灯人说，“我们俩说话这段时候，一个月已经畴昔了。”
"That man," said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, "that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."He breathed a sigh of regret, and said to himself, again:"That man is the only one of them all whom I could have made my friend. But his planet is indeed too small. There is no room on it for two people..."What the little prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blest every day with 1440 sunsets!