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Chapter 2 ↵ So I lived my life alone, without

anyone that I could really talk to, until I had

an accident with my plane in the Desert of

Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my

engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic

nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the

difficult repairs all alone. It was a question of

life or death for me: I had scarcely enough

drinking water to last a week. ↵ The first

night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a

thousand miles from any human habitation. I was

more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft

in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imagine

my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by

an odd little voice. It said: ↵ If you please—

draw me a sheep! ↵ What! ↵ Draw me a sheep! ↵

I jumped to my feet, completely thunderstruck. I

blinked my eyes hard. I looked carefully all

around me. And I saw a most extraordinary small

person, who stood there examining me with great

seriousness. Here you may see the best portrait

that, later, I was able to make of him. But my

drawing is certainly very much less charming than

its model. ↵ That, however, is not my fault. The

grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career

when I was six years old, and I never learned to

draw anything, except boas from the outside and

boas from the inside. ↵ Now I stared at this

sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting

out of my head in astonishment. Remember, I had

crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any

inhabited region. And yet my little man seemed

neither to be straying uncertainly among the

sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue, or

hunger, or thirst, or fear. Nothing about him

gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle

of the desert, a thousand miles from any human

habitation. When at last I was able to speak, I

said to him: ↵ But —what are you doing here? ↵

And in answer he repeated, very slowly, as if he

were speaking of a matter of great consequence:

↵ If you please—draw me a sheep. . . ↵ When a

mystery is too overpowering, one dare not

disobey. Absurd as it might seem to me, a

thousand miles from any human habitation and in

danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet

of paper and my fountain-pen. But then I

remembered how my studies had been concentrated

on geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar,

and I told the little chap (a little crossly,

too) that I did not know how to draw. He answered

me: ↵ That doesn't matter. Draw me a sheep. . .

↵ But I had never drawn a sheep. So I drew for

him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often.

It was that of the boa constrictor from the

outside. And I was astounded to hear the little

fellow greet it with, ↵ No, no, no! I do not

want an elephant inside a boa constrictor. A boa

constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an

elephant is very cumbersome. Where I live,

everything is very small. What I need is a sheep.

Draw me a sheep. ↵ So then I made a drawing. ↵

He looked at it carefully, then he said: ↵ No.

This sheep is already very sickly. Make me

another. ↵ So I made another drawing. ↵ My

friend smiled gently and indulgently. ↵ You see

yourself, ” he said, “that this is not a sheep.

This is a ram. It has horns. ↵ So then I did my

drawing over once more. ↵ But it was rejected

too, just like the others. ↵ This one is too

old. I want a sheep that will live a long time.

↵ By this time my patience was exhausted,

because I was in a hurry to start taking my

engine apart. So I tossed off this drawing. ↵

And I threw out an explanation with it. ↵ This

is only his box. The sheep you asked for is

inside. ↵ I was very surprised to see a light

break over the face of my young judge: ↵ That is

exactly the way I wanted it! Do you think that

this sheep will have to have a great deal of

grass? ↵ Why? ↵ Because where I live everything

is very small. . . ↵ There will surely be enough

grass for him, ” I said. It is a very small sheep

that I have given you. ↵ He bent his head over

the drawing: ↵ Not so small that—Look! He has

gone to sleep. . . ↵ And that is how I made the

acquaintance of the little prince. ↵


知识点

重点词汇
scarcely [ˈskeəsli] adv. 几乎不，简直不；简直没有 {cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts :4028}

patience [ˈpeɪʃns] n. 耐性，耐心；忍耐，容忍 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :4177}

discouraged [dɪs'kʌrɪdʒd] v. 劝阻（discourage的过去分词）；使失去勇气 adj. 气馁的 { :4211}

mechanic [məˈkænɪk] n. 技工，机修工 adj. 手工的 n. (Mechanic)人名；(英)梅凯尼克 {cet4 cet6 ky :4260}

elephant [ˈelɪfənt] n. 象；大号图画纸 {zk gk cet4 cet6 ky :4323}

charming [ˈtʃɑ:mɪŋ] adj. 迷人的；可爱的 v. 使陶醉（charm的现在分词） {cet4 cet6 :4348}

hunger [ˈhʌŋgə(r)] n. 饿，饥饿；渴望 vt. 使……挨饿 vi. 渴望；挨饿 n. (Hunger)人名；(德、波)洪格尔；(英)亨格 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :4584}

blinked [bliŋkt] vt. 眨眼；使…闪烁 vi. 眨眼；闪烁 n. 眨眼；瞬间；闪光 n. (Blink)人名；(德)布林克 { :4607}

exhausted [ɪgˈzɔ:stɪd] v. 耗尽；用尽；使…精疲力尽（exhaust的过去式） adj. 疲惫的；耗尽的 {toefl :4734}

fatigue [fəˈti:g] n. 疲劳，疲乏；杂役 adj. 疲劳的 vt. 使疲劳；使心智衰弱 vi. 疲劳 {cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :4806}

sailor [ˈseɪlə(r)] n. 水手，海员；乘船者 n. (Sailor)人名；(英)赛勒 {gk cet4 cet6 ky :5030}

absurd [əbˈsɜ:d] n. 荒诞；荒诞作品 adj. 荒谬的；可笑的 {gk cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :5676}

awakened [əˈweɪkənd] v. 唤醒（awaken的过去式） adj. 觉醒的 { :5681}

ram [ræm] abbr. 随机访问内存（random-access memory的缩写）；随机存取存储器（random access memory的缩写） {gre :5780}

acquaintance [əˈkweɪntəns] n. 熟人；相识；了解；知道 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl gre :5967}

inhabited [ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd] v. 占据（inhabit的过去分词）；居住于 adj. 有人居住的 { :6052}

sunrise [ˈsʌnraɪz] n. 日出；黎明 n. (Sunrise)人名；(德)松里泽 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :7313}

raft [rɑ:ft] n. 筏；救生艇；（美）大量 vt. 筏运；制成筏 vi. 乘筏 n. (Raft)人名；(匈、瑞典)拉夫特 {toefl ielts :7376}

seriousness [ˈsɪəriəsnəs] n. 严重性；严肃；认真 { :7640}

astonishment [əˈstɒnɪʃmənt] n. 惊讶；令人惊讶的事物 {cet6 :7915}

amazement [əˈmeɪzmənt] n. 惊异；惊愕 {toefl :8674}

arithmetic [əˈrɪθmətɪk] n. 算术，算法 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :8791}

straying [streiŋ] vi. 流浪；迷路；偏离 adj. 迷路的；离群的；偶遇的 n. 走失的家畜；流浪者 n. (Stray)人名；(挪)斯特雷 { :9258}

thirst [θɜ:st] n. 渴望；口渴；热望 vi. 渴望；口渴 {gk cet4 cet6 ky ielts :10813}

cumbersome [ˈkʌmbəsəm] adj. 笨重的；累赘的；难处理的 {toefl ielts gre :11172}


难点词汇
overpowering [ˌəʊvəˈpaʊərɪŋ] adj. 压倒性的；无法抵抗的 {gre :12285}

apparition [ˌæpəˈrɪʃn] n. 幽灵；幻影；鬼怪；离奇出现的东西 {gre :12742}

astounded [əˈstaʊndɪd] v. 使惊愕（astound的过去式和过去分词） adj. 受惊骇的；被震惊的 { :12802}

uncertainly [ʌnˈsɜ:tnli] adv. 不确定地；没把握地；犹豫地 { :13211}

crossly [krɒslɪ] adv. 横地；故意为难地；相反地；发怒地 { :13432}

sickly [ˈsɪkli] adj. 有病的，苍白的；疾病流行的；令人作呕的 adv. 病态地 vt. 使苍白，使现病容 { :13802}

habitation [ˌhæbɪˈteɪʃn] n. 居住；住所 { :14815}

disobey [ˌdɪsəˈbeɪ] v. 违反；不服从 {gk :15476}

Sahara [sә'hɑ:rә] n. 撒哈拉沙漠（位于非洲北部）；荒野 { :16090}

shipwrecked ['ʃiprekt] n. 海滩，海难；失事 v. 遇海难；遭毁灭（shipwreck的过去分词形式） { :17434}

boa [ˈbəʊə] n. [脊椎] 蟒蛇；女用围巾；蟒形联合浮动汇率 n. (Boa)人名；(葡)博阿；(缅)波 { :19765}

Boas ['bәuәz] n. [脊椎] 蟒蛇；皮毛长围巾（boa的复数） { :19765}

indulgently [ɪn'dʌldʒəntlɪ] adv. 溺爱地；放任地 { :26207}

constrictor [kən'strɪktə] n. 大蟒；括约肌；使压缩之物 { :28586}

thunderstruck [ˈθʌndəstrʌk] adj. 遭雷击的；惊愕的；吓坏了的 { :32310}


复习词汇
sheep [ʃi:p] n. 羊，绵羊；胆小鬼 {zk gk ielts :2697}


生僻词
fountain-pen [ ] n. 钢笔

grown-ups [ɡ'rəʊn'ʌps] n. 成人


词组
a ram [ ] [网络] 一只公绵羊；洪亚兰；存储器是

a sheep [ ] [网络] 一只羊；绵羊；一只绵羊

at sunrise [ ] [网络] 日出时；在日出时；在日出时刻

boa constrictor [ˈbəʊə kənstrɪktə(r)] n. 巨蚺（南美蟒，捕食时把猎物缢死） [网络] 红尾蚺；蟒蛇；大蟒蛇

crash in [kræʃ in] na. 擅自进入

dare not [dɛə nɔt] [网络] 不敢；不敢当；敢不

faint from [ ] 因…晕倒；因…不省人事

human habitation [ˈhju:mən ˌhæbɪˈteɪʃən] [网络] 阳宅；处人；人类居住

hurry to [ ] [网络] 匆匆忙忙地去；赶往；匆忙赶到

in a hurry [in ə ˈhʌri] na. 匆忙；〈口〉容易地；急于要；〔口语〕愿意地 [网络] 匆忙地；立即；匆匆忙忙

in astonishment [ ] na. 愕然 [网络] 吃惊地；惊讶地；惊奇

jump to [ ] [网络] 跳转到；跳到；跳至

little chap [ ] [网络] 小家伙

little prince [ ] [网络] 小王子；小王子作曲；小王子小故事

on a raft [ ] na. 以烤面包垫底 [网络] 用筏子载运

the ocean [ ] [网络] 海洋；大海；赞大海

toss off [tɔs ɔf] na. 一口喝干(酒)；敏捷地做好 [网络] 一饮而尽；轻而易举地处理；喝光


惯用语
draw me a sheep



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