如果有什么書是年幼時，成年時或者老年時都是值得一讀的，那一定是《小王子》！
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys.
And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me.
To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.
對我而言，你只是一個小男孩，和其它成千上萬的小男孩沒有什么不同。
我不需要你。你也不需要我。
對你而言，我也和其它成千上萬的狐貍并沒有什么差別。
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.
To me, you will be unique in allthe world.
To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
但是，假如你馴養了我，我們就需要彼此了。
對我而言，你就是舉世無雙的；
對你而言，我也是獨一無二的.
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at alittle distance from me-- like that-- in the grass. I shall look at you out ofthe corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source ofmisunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."
“馴養你，那我應該怎么做呢？”小王子問道。
“你必須很耐心，”狐貍答道，“首先，你坐在草地上，離我有一些距離——就像這樣。我偷偷地用眼角觀察你，你什么也別說。言語是誤會的根源。但是，你每天都可以坐得離我更近一些...”
The next day the little prince came back.
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour,"said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o‘clock in the afternoon,then at three o‘clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier andhappier as the hour advances. At four o‘clock, I shall already be worrying andjumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just anytime, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you...One must observe the proper rites..."
第二天，小王子又來了。
“你最好每天都在同一個時刻過來，”狐貍說道，“比如說你下午四點來，那我從三點開始就會感到快樂。離四點越近，我就會越來越快樂。四點一到，我就會坐立不安。我會讓你看到我究竟有多快樂！但是如果你來的時間不固定，我就不知道該什么時候開始準備迎接你...我們應該遵循正確的儀式...”
"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.
"Those also are actions too oftenneglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different fromother days, one hour from other hours.
“什么是儀式？”小王子問道。
“這也是經常被人遺忘的行為，”狐貍說，“所謂儀式，就是使某一天不同于其他日子，使某一時刻不同于其他時刻。
And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one ofher kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike,in one single garden!
小王子的心里忽然充滿了憂傷。他的花曾經告訴他，她是宇宙中唯一的一朵花這種形狀的花。可是在這里，在僅僅這個花園里，就有千萬朵和她長得一模一樣的花。
I thought that I was rich,with a flower that was unique in all the world; and all I had was a common rose.
我本以為自己非常富有，因為我有世界上唯一的一朵花；其實我有的只是一朵普通的花。
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die foryou. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just likeyou-- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more importantthan all the hundreds of you other roses.
你們是很美麗，但是你們也是空虛的。沒有人愿意為你們獻出生命。當然，我的那朵玫瑰花——一個過路人或許會認為我的花和你們一模一樣。可是在我的心里，僅僅她一朵花，就比你們成千上萬朵花更重要。
Because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under theglass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; becauseit is for her 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. Becauseshe is my rose.
因為她是我親自去澆灌的那朵花；因為她是我用玻璃罩保護起來的那朵花；因為她是我曾經為之驅蟲的那朵花。因為我傾聽過她的抱怨，傾聽過她的炫耀，甚至傾聽過她什么都不說。因為她是我的玫瑰花。
也許世界上也有千萬朵和你一模一樣的花，但只有你是我獨一無二的玫瑰。
"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judgedby deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. Iought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all theaffection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are soinconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."
“可事實上我當時什么都不懂！我應該看她做過什么，而不是聽她說了什么。她的花香飄在我的周圍，她的光芒照耀著我。我永遠也不應該離開她……我本應該感到她所有那些可愛的小花招后面隱藏的脈脈深情。花兒是如此的變化多姿！可是我那時太年輕，不懂得怎樣去愛她……”
"The men where you live," said the little prince, "raise five thousand roses in the same garden-- and they do not find in it what they are lookingfor."
"They do not find it," I replied.
"And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a littlewater."
“你們這里的人，在同一個花園里種下了千萬朵玫瑰花---可是他們卻不能從中找到自己正在尋找的東西。”小王子說。
“他們是找不到。”我回答說。
“然而，他們正在尋找的東西，其實可以從一朵玫瑰花或者一滴水中找到。”
"But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart..."
in it what they are looking for."
小王子又補充說：“但是眼睛是什么也看不見的。必須用心靈去感受……”
What moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is hisloyalty to a flower-- the image of a rose that shines through his whole beinglike the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep...
這個熟睡的小王子最叫我感動的地方是，他對一朵玫瑰的感情——甚至他睡著了，那朵玫瑰花的影子，仍然像燈光一樣照亮他的生命……
我們長大了，不再看童話故事，我們每天在擁堵的城市煞有其事地生活，卻把原本簡單的生活過得越來越復雜，早已失去了了解這個世界的新鮮感和好奇心，我們對一切都習以為常。我們走路的時候匆忙的像上廁所一樣，沒有時間停下來，看看星星或者夕陽，沒有時間等一朵花開花謝，沒有時間問問路邊低著頭的小孩在想什么，沒有時間寫信，沒有時間赤腳走路……小王子說得對，所有的大人都曾是小孩子，但，只有少數人記得。
All grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it.
三毛在《雨季不再來》里說：我唯一鍥而不舍，愿意以自己的生命去努力的，只不過是保守我個人的心懷意念，在我有生之日，做一個真誠的人，不放棄對生活的熱愛和執著，在有限的時空里，過無限廣大的日子。
狄更斯曾這樣描述《小王子》創造的時代：這是最美好的時代，這是最壞的時代；這是智慧的年代，這是愚蠢的年代；這是信仰的時期，這是懷疑的時期；這是光明的季節，這是黑暗的季節；這是希望之春，這是失望之冬；人們面前有著各種事物，人們面前一無所有！
其實，每個時代，主旋律不同，但規律都一樣！
在這個最好和最壞的時代，“愿你有好運氣，如果沒有，愿你在不幸中學會慈悲；愿你被很多人愛，如果沒有，愿你在寂寞中學會寬容。”
