“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。”
“如果你不拴住它，”我说，“它就到处跑，会跑丢的。”
我花了好长时候才明白他是从那里来的。小王子问我很多题目，我有很多迷惑，但是，对我提出的题目，小王子仿佛压根儿没有闻声似的。一点一点的，偶尔间他偶然中透露的一些只言片语逐步使我搞清了他的来源。比方，当他第一次瞥见我的飞机时（我就不画出我的飞机了，因为这类丹青对我来讲太庞大），他问我道：“这是个甚么玩意儿呀？”
Chapter 3
He cried out, then: "What! You dropped down from the sky""Yes," I answered, modestly.
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.
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？”
“这不是‘玩意儿’。它能飞。这是飞机，是我的飞机。”
“My little man, where do you come from What is this ‘where I live,’ of which you speak Where do you want to take your sheep”
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……”
你们能够想见这类关于“别的星球”似是而非的话语使我内心多么猎奇。是以我极力地想晓得此中更多的奥妙。