《小王子》英文详解版（1）Chapter 1-1

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[ Chapter 1-1 ]

we are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas about grown­-ups.

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."

I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work witha colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:

I showed my masterpiece to the grown­ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown­ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown­ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:

The grown­ups‘ response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two.

once 一次，曾经

once upon a time 从前

magnificent 壮丽的，宏伟的

primeval 原始的，远方的

primeval forest 原始森林

boa constrictor 蟒蛇

in the act of 正在做...时

swallow 吞咽，轻信，燕子

prey 捕食，猎物

chew 咀嚼

digestion 消化

ponder 考虑，沉思

jungle 丛林

masterpiece 杰作，佳作

grown-ups 成年人

frighten 使惊吓

elephant 大象

response 回应

advise 建议

lay aside 搁置，留存

devote 致力于，奉献

instead 代替

geography 地理

history 历史

arithmetic 算术

grammar 语法

painter 画家

dishearten 使伤心，使灰心

failure 失败