The Little Prince (2)

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 she 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. 可是于我而言，她却比你们千朵万朵都要重要。因为我曾经亲自浇灌过它、曾经把它放在玻璃罩下、曾经把它置于屏风后面保护它、曾经为了它杀死了一些毛毛虫（只留两三只蜕变成蝴蝶）。我倾听她的抱怨、自吹自擂甚至信口开河，哪怕她默默无语——只因为她是我的玫瑰花。