Little prince 小王子.docxVIP

Little prince Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset. I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth day, when you said to me:?I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now.?But we must wait, I said.??Wait? For what???For the sunset. We must wait until it is time.??At first you seemed to be very much surprised. And then you laughed to yourself. You said to me:??I am always thinking that I am at home!??Just so. Everybody knows that when it is noon in the United States the sun is setting over France.??If you could fly to France in one minute, you could go straight into the sunset, right from noon. Unfortunately, France is too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little price, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like…?One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times!??And a little later you added:??You know -- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…??Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunset???But the little prince made no reply.??On the fifth day -- again, as always, it was thanks to the sheep -- the secret of the little princes life was revealed to me. Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditation on his problem, he demanded:??A sheep -- if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too???A sheep, I answered, eats anything it finds in its reach.??Every flower that have thorns???Yes, even flowers that have thorns.??Then the thorns -- what use are they???I did not know. At that moment I was very busy trying to unscrew a bolt that had got stuck in my engine. I was very much worried, for it was becoming clear to me that the breakdown of my plane was extremely serious. And I had so little drinking-water left that I had to fear for the worst.??The thorns -- what use