“這不是‘玩意兒’。它能飛。這是飛機，是我的飛機。”

此時小王子敬愛地笑了起來。這讓我很活力。我不但願本身嚴厲的痛苦遭到彆人嘲笑。然後，他又說道：“那麼，你也是從天上來的了！你是哪個星球上的？”

He cried out, then: "What! You dropped down from the sky""Yes," I answered, modestly.

After a reflective silence he answered: "The thing that is so good about the box you have given me is that at night he can use it as his house.""That is so. And if you are good I will give you a string, too, so that you can tie him during the day, and a post to tie him to."But the little prince seemed shocked by this offer: "Tie him! What a queer idea!"“But if you don’t tie him,” I said, “he will wander off somewhere, and get lost.”

“任那邊所。它一嚮往前跑……”

It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me.

Chapter 3

我花了好長時候才明白他是從那裡來的。小王子問我很多題目，我有很多迷惑，但是，對我提出的題目，小王子彷彿壓根兒冇有聞聲似的。一點一點的，偶爾間他偶然中透露的一些隻言片語逐步使我搞清了他的來源。比方，當他第一次瞥見我的飛機時（我就不畫出我的飛機了，因為這類丹青對我來講太龐大），他問我道：“這是個甚麼玩意兒呀？”

這時，我俄然有點明白他為甚麼會在這裡，對於他奧秘呈現這個費解的奧妙，我模糊發明瞭一點線索。因而，我間斷了他的發問，迫不及待地問道：“你是從另一個星球上來的嗎？”

“拴住它？多麼奇特的主張啊！”

You can imagine how my curiosity was aroused by this half-confidence about the "other planets." I made a great effort, therefore, to find out more on this subject.