小王子第4期:画一头羊-英语课

时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：小王子

英语课

　　Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region.

　　你们不要忘记，我当时处在远离人烟千里之外的地方。
　　And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue 1 or hunger or thirst or fear.
　　而这个小家伙给我的印象是，他既不象迷了路的样子，也没有半点疲乏、饥渴、惧怕的神情。
　　Nothing about him gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any human habitation.
　　他丝毫不象是一个迷失在旷无人烟的大沙漠中的孩子。
　　When at last I was able to speak, I said to him:
　　当我在惊讶之中终于又能说出话来的时候，对他说道：
　　But– what are you doing here?
　　唉，你在这儿干什么？
　　And in answer he repeated, very slowly, as if he were speaking of a matter of great consequence:
　　可是他却不慌不忙地好象有一件重要的事一般，对我重复地说道：
　　If you please– draw me a sheep.
　　请…给我画一只羊
　　When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
　　当一种神秘的东西把你镇住的时候，你是不敢不听从它的支配的，
　　Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death,
　　在这旷无人烟的沙漠上，面临死亡的危险的情况下，尽管这样的举动使我感到十分荒诞，
　　I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen.
　　我还是掏出了一张纸和一支钢笔。
　　But then I remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar,
　　这时我却又记起，我只学过地理、历史、算术和语法，
　　and I told the little chap (a little crossly, too) that I did not know how to draw.
　　就有点不大高兴地对小家伙说我不会画画。
　　He answered me:“That doesn’t matter. Draw me a sheep.”
　　他回答我说：“没有关系，给我画一只羊吧！”
　　But I had never drawn 2 a sheep.
　　因为我从来没有画过羊，
　　So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often.
　　我就给他重画我所仅仅会画的两副画中的
　　It was that of the boa constrictor from the outside.
　　那副闭着肚皮的巨蟒。
　　And I was astounded 3 to hear the little fellow greet it with.
　　我听了他的话，简直目瞪口呆。
　　No, no, no! I do not want an elephant inside a boa constrictor.
　　不，不！我不要蟒蛇，它肚子里还有一头象。
　　A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very cumbersome 4.
　　他接着说：“巨蟒这东西太危险，大象又太占地方。”
　　Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep.
　　我住的地方非常小，我需要一只羊。给我画一只羊吧。
　　So then I made a drawing.
　　我就给他画了。

小王子 第4期:画一头羊

小王子第4期:画一头羊