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[ Chapter 14 ]
The little prince crossed the desert and met with only one flower.
It was a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all.
"Good morning," said the little prince.
"Good morning," said the flower.
"Where are the men?" the little prince asked, politely.
The flower had once seen a caravan（商队） passing.
"Men?" she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence.
I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them.
The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
"Goodbye," said the little prince.
"Goodbye," said the flower.
***
After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain.
The only mountains he had ever known were the three volcanoes, which came up to his knees. And he used the extinct volcano as a footstool.
"From a mountain as high as this one," he said to himself, "I shall be able to see the whole planet at one glance, and all the people..."
But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened like needles.
"Good morning," he said courteously.
"Good morning--Good morning--Good morning," answered the echo.
"Who are you?" said the little prince.
"Who are you--Who are you--Who are you?" answered the echo.
"Be my friends. I am all alone," he said.
"I am all alone--all alone--all alone," answered the echo.
"What a queer （奇怪的）planet!" he thought.
"It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding.
And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them...
On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak..."
***
But it happened that after walking for a long time through sand, and rocks, and snow, the little prince at last came upon a road.
And all roads lead to the abodes（住所） of men.
"Good morning," he said.
He was standing before a garden, all a-bloom with roses.
"Good morning," said the roses.
The little prince gazed at them. They all looked like his flower.
"Who are you?" he demanded, thunderstruck.
"We are roses," the roses said.
And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe.
And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!
"She would be very much annoyed," he said to himself, "if she should see that... she would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend that she was dying, to avoid being laughed at.
And I should be obliged to（不得不） pretend that I was nursing her back to life-- for if I did not do that, to humble myself also, she would really allow herself to die..."
Then he went on with his 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..."
And he lay down in the grass and cried.
***
It was then that the fox appeared.
"Good morning," the fox said.
"Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.
"I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree."
"Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."
"I am a fox," said the fox.
"Come and be with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy."
"I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed（驯服）."
"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince.
But, after some thought, he added: "What does that mean-- ‘tame‘?"
"You do not live here," said the fox. "What is it that you are looking for?"
"I am looking for men," said the little prince. "What does that mean-- ‘tame‘?"
"Men," said the fox. "They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing（令人不安的）.
They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?"
"No," said the little prince. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean-- ‘tame‘?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."
"‘To establish ties‘?"
"Just that," said the fox.
"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..."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
"It is possible," said the fox. "On the Earth one sees all sorts of things."
"Oh, but this is not on the Earth!" said the little prince.
The fox seemed perplexed（困惑的）, and very curious.
"On another planet?"
"Yes."
"Are there hunters on this planet?"
"No."
"Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"
"No."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox.
But he came back to his idea.
"My life is very monotonous（单调的）," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me.
All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike.
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（洞穴）.
And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread.
Wheat is of no use to me. 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.
And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
"Please-- tame me!" he said.
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied.
"But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox.
"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready 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..."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"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..."（1098 words）
-重点句子解析-
1. It was a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all.
那是一朵只有三片花瓣的花儿，普普通通，平淡无奇。
「of no account」是固定搭配，表示“不重要，无足轻重”。那么也可以推出来「of great account」就是表示“很重要”。
2. But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened like needles.
但是除了如针尖般锋利的石头外，他什么也没有看到。
「save」此处为介词，表示“除…之外”
「rock that were sharpened like needles」：如针尖般锋利的石头
3. "What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding.
「queer」：形容词，表示“奇怪的”
「altogether」：“完全地”
「pointed」：“尖锐的，突出的”
「forbidding」：“冷峻的”
处在沙漠里的小王子觉得地球很奇怪，特别干燥，地势特别险峻。
好啦，这就是我们Chapter 14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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