the Little Prince

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Let's read this interesting book together

Little Prince ,a boy who will never grow up;

A fable ,which is warm and fragrant, sincere and moving...

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may be, we can use cozy to express the meaning "温馨"

Preface

To Leon Werth

I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up.

I have a serious reason:he is the best friend i have in the world .

I have another reason:this grown-up understands everything ,even books about children.

I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold , he needs cheering up.

If all these reasons are not enough, i will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew.

All grown-ups were once children---although few of them remember it .And so i correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth when he was a little boy

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Part one

Once when i was six years old i saw a magnificent picture in a book,called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval¹ forest. It was a picture of a boa² constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

In the book it said:"boa constrictors swallow their prey whole,without chewing it.After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."

I pondered deeply, then, over the adventure of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looks like this:

i showed my masterpiece to the grown-up ,and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they anwered:"Frightened? why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

constrict: 紧缩

boa：蟒蛇

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One music about the Little Prince

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西部牛仔

I prefer a love story to encurage the boring life.

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以下是引用西部牛仔在2005-5-28 16:16:45的发言： I prefer a love story to encurage the boring life.

It's yourself that can change your life or encourage you to go ahead

if you depend on lover or love story , you 'll depressed .

Trust you, believe you can change the passive emotion....

Welcome to English Edition and enjoy yourself here.

If we can ,we will also copy some love story here and share it with everyone here

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My drawing was not a picture of a hat.It was a picture of a boa constrictor of digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, i made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-up could see it clearly. The always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this :

The grown-ups' response ,this time ,was to advised me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, arithmetic and grammer. That is why, at the age of six, i gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been dishearted by the failure of my Drawing Number one and Drawing Number Two.

grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

So then i chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance ,i can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, suck knowledge is valuable.

霍克

Well, i do not want to read the text, i like to listen to the music.

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In the course of this life ,i have had a great many encounters wiht a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.

Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing One , which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so ,if this was a person of true understanding . But, whoever it was, he , or she, would say :

"That's a hat."

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