小王子英文版19

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        After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The only mountains he had ever known were the threevolcanoes, which came up to his knees. And he used the extinct volcano as a footstool. "From a mountainas high as this one," he said to himself, "I shall be able to see the whole planet at one glance, and all thepeople . . ."

        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 planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh andforbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet Ihad a flower; she always was the first to speak . . ."