“再见了。”他对花儿说道。
花儿咳嗽了一阵,但并不是因为感冒。
“如果有虫子野兽呢?”
The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs. He believed that he would never want to return. But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him. And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe, he realised that he was very close to tears.
"Of course I love you," the flower said to him. "It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you― you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy... let the glass globe be. I don’t want it any more.""But the wind―"
“再见了。”他又说了一遍。
"I have been silly , " she said to him, at last. "I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy..."He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness.
"Goodbye," he said to the flower.
But she made no answer.
她终究对他说道:“畴昔我真傻。请你谅解我。但愿你能幸运。”
花儿竟然没有指责他,小王子感到很惊奇。他举着罩子,不知所措地鹄立在那边。他不明白她为甚么会如许和顺温馨。
Chapter 9
"Goodbye," he said again.
"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies― and the caterpillars― who will call upon me You will be far away... as for the large animals― I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws."And, navely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:"Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!"For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower...