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1943 年 首次出版 1944 年 7 月, 作者在执行飞行任务时失联，从此再也没有回来
- 小王子与玫瑰的爱情、可怕的猴面包树、专制的国王、痴迷于加法的红脸先生、执着的点灯人、小王子与狐狸的友情、沙漠中的水井与歌
- 故事中传达的重要讯息 What is essential is invisible to the eye。（重要的东西用眼睛是看不见的。）
Contents
To Leon Werth
- I ask the ==indulgence== of the children who may read this book for ==dedicating== it to a grown-up.
- And so I correct my dedication. (题词)
Chapter 1
- magnificent
- primeval
- boa constrictor
- swallowing
pondered
jungle.
Frighten
lay aside
magnificent
disheartened
**Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them**
intimately
I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding.
primeval
neckties.
sensible
Chapter 2
- mechanic
- shipwrecked
- thunderstruck
- extraordinary
- discouraged
- apparition
- inhabited
- fatigue
- consequence:
- fountain-pen.
- chap
- astounded
- cumbersome.
- indulgently.
- ram.
- horns.
- rejected
- tossed off
- judge
- He bent his head over the drawing.
Chapter 3
- revealed
- broke into a lovely peal of laughter
- irritated
- misfortunes
- gleam
- presence
- demanded
- abruptly
- tossed
- reverie
- he buried himself in the contemplation of his treasure.
- reflective
- queer
- earnestly
Chapter 4
- scarcely
- Jupiter
- Venus
- demonstration.
- Turkish
- dictator
- costume.
- impressive
- elegance.
- it is on account of the grown-ups and their ways.
- butterflies
- demand
- rosy brick
- geraniums
- doves
- exclaim
- charming
- leave you in peace from their questions
- forbearance
- certainly
- grief
- **To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures...**
- portraits
- goes along all right
- resemblance
- costume.
- fumble
- middling.
- **My friend never explained anything to me. He thought, perhaps, that I was like himself.**
- I have had to grow old.
Chapter 5
- departure
- as it might chance to fall from his thoughts
- catastrophe
- baobabs.
- This time, once more, I had the sheep to thank for it.
- abruptly
- seized
- grave doubt
- bushes
- it follows that
- even if
- herd
- put them one on top of the other,
- start out by being little
- self-evident.
- In consequence
- timidly
- destroy
Chapter 6
- Bit by bit
- sad little life.
- quiet pleasure
- tiny
- twilight
- You know—one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...”
- Were you so sad, then?
Chapter 7
- revealed
- meditation
- thorns
- unscrew
- bolt
- extremely
- let go of a question
- spite
- resentfulness
- creatures.
- naive.
- reassure
- consequence
- thunderstruck.
- bending down over an object which seemed to him extremely ugly
- relentlessly
- tossed
- curls
- breeze.
- add up figures
- swell up with pride
- mushroom
- white with rage
- And if I know—I, myself—one flower which is unique in the world, which grows nowhere but on my planet, but which one little sheep can destroy in a single bite some morning, without even noticing what he is doing—Oh! You think that is not important
- “If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there...’
- muzzle
- railing
- awkward
- blundering.
Chapter 8
- petals
- sprout
- shrub
- bud
- miraculous
- apparition
- rumpled
- coquettish
- painstaking precision
- disarranged.
- restrain
- admiration:
- abashed
- torment
- vanity
- Let the tigers come with their claws!
- weeds.
- have a horror of
- A horror of drafts
- want you to put me under a glass globe.
- in order to put the little prince in the wrong
Chapter 9
- departure
- volcanoes.
- possessed
- extinct
- cleaned out
- eruptions.
- chimney.
- they bring no end of trouble upon us
- pulled up,
- dejection
- coughed.
- I have been silly
- absence
- reproaches.
- bewildered
- arrested
- mid-air.
- Let the glass globe be. I don’t want it any more.
- My cold is not so bad as all that
- 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.
- caterpillars
- naively
- linger
- She was such a proud flower...
Chapter 10
- Clad
- ermine
- throne
- majestic.
- exclaimed
- consumingly
- king over somebody.
- crammed
- obstructed
- magnificent
- ermine robe.
- upright
- yawned.
- contrary
- etiquette
- monarch
- thoroughly
- frightens
- murmured
- abashed.
- Hum
- sputtered
- vexed.
- fundamentally
- tolerated
- disobedience.
- monarch.
- general
- timid
- inquiry
- majestically
- ermine
- mantle.
- hastened
- assure
- obey
- instantly.
- insubordination
- marvel
- forsaken
- plucked up
- tragic drama
- demanded.
- Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
- consulted
- bulky almanac
- carriage.
- “Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered, “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
- From time to time
- condemn
- thriftily.
- departure
- grieve
- monarch.
- Majesty
- promptly
- favorable...
- Ambassador
- hastily.
Chapter 11
- conceited
- admirer
- afar
- queer
- salutes
- acclaim
- clapped
- Conceited people never hear anything but praise
- shrugging
- what is there
Chapter 12
- tippler.
- plunged
- dejection.
- lugubrious
- already was sorry for him
- confessed
- impregnable
- puzzled.
Chapter 14
- lamp
- lamplighter
- explanation
- absurd
- conceited
- tippler.
- mopped
- forehead
- squares.
- tragedy
- strides
- scorned
- Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.
- confess
- blest
Chapter 15
- voluminous
- panted a little
- geographer
- cast a look around him
- stately
- go loafing about.
- recall of their travels
- disaster
- intoxicated
- an inquiry is ordered into his discovery.”
- complicated.
- stirred
- recitals
- ephemeral.
- ephemeral
- let go of a question
Chapter 16
- conceited
- invention
- continents
- veritable
- splendid
- ballet in the opera
- go off to sleep.
- waved back into the wings
- single lamp
Chapter 17
- play the wit
- altogether
- assembly
- adore figures,
- You have, I know, confidence in me.
- courteously
- “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...
- took up the conversation
- thicker
- finger...
- twined
- ankle
- a golden bracelet.
- move me to pity
- granite
- homesick
- riddles
Chapter 18
- petals
- of no account
- caravan
- echoed.
- But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
Chapter 19
- came up to his knees
- footstool.
- courteously
- answered the echo.
- queer
- altogether
- pointed
- harsh
- forbidding.
Chapter 20
- sand
- rocks
- abodes
- demanded
- thunderstruck.
- dreadfully
- be obliged to
- nursing her back to life
- humble
- reflections:
- “I thought that I was rich, with a flower that was unique in all the world; and all I had was a common rose. A common rose, and three volcanoes that come up to my knees—and one of them perhaps extinct forever... that doesn’t make me a very great prince...”
Chapter 21
- tamed.
- disturbing.
- To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...
- one sees all sorts of things.”
- perplexed
- monotonous,
- And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
- grain-fields
- yonder
- Wheat
- The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you.
- One only understands the things that one tames
- Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things already made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...
- You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will sit down at a little distance from me—like that—in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...”
- If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you... One must observe the proper rites..
- rite
- Those also are actions too often neglected,” said the fox. “They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all.”
- departure
- “It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of the wheat fields.” And then he added,
- “You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”
- You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you—the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
- Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox. “But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose...”
Chapter 22
- switchman.
- “I sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand,”
- brilliantly
- cabin
- locomotive
- roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express.
- flattening their noses against the windowpanes.
- They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry...
Chapter 23
- merchant.
- quench
- thirst.
- tremendous
Chapter 24
- merchant
- follow my reasoning
- steadily
- weariness.
- absurd
- immensity
- nevertheless
- trudged
- feverish
- reeling
- merely
- cross-examine
- ridges
- dune
- throbs
- gleams...
- somewhere it hides a well
- astonished
- radiation
- buried
- enchantment
- “The house, the stars, the desert—what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!”
- set out walking once more
- stirred.
- fragile
- fragile
- pale forehead
- locks of hair
- suspicion
- loyalty
- through his whole being like the flame of a lamp,
- fragile
Chapter 25
- set out on their way in express trains,
- rush
- the pulley, the bucket, the rope
- moaned
- weathervane
- hoisted
- nourishment.
- tenderness
- radiance
- raise five thousand roses in the same garden—and they do not find in it what they are looking for
- And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water.
- But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart
- muzzle
- rough drafts
- horns
- muzzle.
- torn.
- descent
- flushed.
- a queer sense of sorrow.
- you were strolling along like that
- a thousand miles from any inhabited region
- You were on your back to the place where you landed?
- anniversary
- when one flushes does that not mean “Yes”
- frightened...
- reassured.
- One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...
Chapter 26
- with his feet dangling.
- exact spot.
- “Yes, yes! It is the right day, but this is not the place.
- torn asunder;
- loosened
- muffler
- I was just coming to tell him that my work had been successful, beyond anything that I had dared to hope.
- and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him
- reviving
- irreparable
- plea.
- The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen...
- “It is just as it is with the flower. If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a bloom with flowers...”
- pulley
- rope
- laughter
- “All men have the stars,” he answered, “but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You—you alone—will have the stars as no one else has them.”
- “In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!”
- shabby
- I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh...
- “I shall not leave you,”
- Snakes—they are malicious creatures. This one might bite you just for fun...
- reassure
- And he too said nothing more, because he was crying..
- naive
- stand up any longer.
- “There now—that is all...”
- ankle.
- motionless
Chapter 27
- companions
- bells...
- add the leather strap to it.
- absent-minded
- bells
- This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory
- African
- come upon this spot,
- hurry on
- comfort me
-