Chapter 5
“不错。”我说，“但是为甚么你想叫你的羊去吃小猴面包树呢？”
“这是个端方题目。”小王子厥后向我解释道，“每天早上洗漱结束今后，必须非常细心地给星球做洁净和打扮。你必须规定本身定时去拔掉猴面包树苗。这类树苗小的时候与玫瑰苗长得差未几，一旦你把它们认出来，就要把它拔掉。这是一件非常有趣的事情，但也很轻易。”
他立即答复我道：“哦，行了，行了。”仿佛这是不言而喻的，我本身却被迫要费很大的脑力来处理这个题目。
我不明白绵羊吃矮小灌木这件事为甚么如此首要。可小王子又弥补说道：“那么，它们也吃猴面包树吗？”
A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces...
But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe. I knew a planet that was inhabited by a lazy man. He neglected three little bushes..."So, as the little prince described it to me, I have made a drawing of that planet. I do not much like to take the tone of a moralist. But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, that for once I am breaking through my reserve. "Children," I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs!"My friends, like myself, have been skirting this danger for a long time, without ever knowing it; and so it is for them that I have worked so hard over this drawing. The lesson which I pass on by this means is worth all the trouble it has cost me.