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[ Chapter 9 ]
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of
wild birds.
On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order.
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
He possessed two active volcanoes;
and they were very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning.
He also had one volcano that was extinct. But, as he said, "One never knows!" So he cleaned out the extinct volcano, too.
If they are all well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily,
without any eruptions. Volcanic eruptions are like fires in a chimney.
On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes. That
is why they bring no end of trouble upon us.
The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection（忧郁）, the last little
shoots of the baobabs.
He believed that he would never want to return. But on this
last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him.
And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of
her glass globe, he realized that he was very close to tears.
"Goodbye," he said to the flower.
But she made no answer.
"Goodbye," he said again.
The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold.
"I have been silly," she said to him, at last. "I ask your forgiveness. Try to be
happy..."
He was surprised by this absence of reproaches（责备）. He stood there all bewildered,
the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness.
"Of course I love you," the flower said to him.
"It is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance.
But you-- you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy... let the glass globe be. I don‘t want it any more."
"But the wind--"
"My cold is not so bad as all that... the cool night air will do me good. I am a
flower."
"But the animals--"
"Well, I 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. And if not the butterflies-- and the caterpillars-- who will call upon me?
You will be far away... as for the large animals-- I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my
claws."
And, naively, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:
"Don‘tlinger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!"
For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower...
好啦，英文原版的朗读到这里就结束了，下面我们一起来学习一下本章节的重点词汇和句型。
1. I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. 我想小王子是利用一群候鸟迁徙的机会跑出来的。
这个句子只要抓住take advantage of这个短语的意思就很好理解了，它表示“利用”
a flock of… 表示一群，比如这句的a flock of wild birds，一群野鸟。再或者A flock of sheep一群羊。
关于这一段，作者的原图是这样的。
2. The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs.
「pull up」“拔起”
「dejection」“沮丧，忧郁”
「shoots」这里是名词“嫩枝” 常用的意思还有动词“射击”，“拍摄”。
小王子怀着沮丧的心情拔掉了最后的猴面包树苗。为什么伤心沮丧呢，我想一是因为他要离开自己每天悉心照顾的星球要去远行了，二是要离开玫瑰，跟爱情告别了。
3.He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness.
在小王子离开的这天，花儿对他没有一声责备，小王子举着玻璃罩子，茫然不知所措地站在那儿。这般恬静的柔情让他有点惊讶。
「absence」表示“缺失，未到场”，那么absence of reproaches就是指没有责骂。小王子原以为自己这样一走了之，玫瑰肯定会责备他，但是很讶异玫瑰并没有。
「bewilder」：“ 迷惑，不知所措 ”
「arrest」：“停止”。我们常见的是“逮捕”的意思，比如：arrest sb. for sth. 就是说因为sth逮捕了sb.；under arrest就是被逮捕。而在文中，用的是“停止”的意思，文中 held arrested 就是说保持停止，这个意思也很常见的哦，比如说心脏骤停就是 heart arrest。
「in mid－air」：“在半空中” 。
4. "Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to
become acquainted with the butterflies.
如果我希望同蝴蝶交朋友，我必须得忍受毛毛虫的拜访。
「endure」：“ 忍受 ”。
「Acquainted」 表示“熟悉的，了解的 ”
become acquainted with 意为同…变得熟悉或者结交。
其实我们在Day 1的内容中学习过类似的结构：你们还记得那个句子嘛：And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince. make a acquaintance of 也表示结识。
好啦，这就是我们Chapter 9的学习内容，不知道大家都听懂了没有呢？那么在节目中呢我们也会给出大家英文原文还有这些重点句子的解析内容，希望大家在听完之后一定要再自己读一遍，同时呢记住这些重点的词汇和句型，这对英语学习是非常重要的，一定一定要自己再读一遍哦。好啦，我们本期的讲解就到这里啦，如果大家有什么意见和问题的话欢迎大家随时跟我联系，如果你喜欢我们的节目的话也请点赞和分享哦。今天就这样啦，我们下期再会喽。
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