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[ Chapter 18 ]
"I am glad that you have found what was the matter with your engine," he said.
"Now you can go back home--"
"How do you know about that?"
I was just coming to tell him that my work had been successful, beyond anything that I dared to hope.
He made no answer to my question, but he added:
"I, too, am going back home today..."
Then, sadly--
"It is much farther... it is much more difficult..."
I realized clearly that something extraordinary was happening.
I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child;
and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong（轻率地，莽撞的） toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him...
His look was very serious, like some one lost far away.
"I have your sheep. And I have the sheep‘s box. And I have the muzzle..." And he gave me a sad smile.
I waited a long time. I could see that he was reviving little by little.
"Dear little man," I said to him, "you are afraid..."
He was afraid, there was no doubt about that. But he laughed lightly.
"I shall be much more afraid this evening..."
Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable.
And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more.
For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert.
"Little man," I said, "I want to hear you laugh again."
But he said to me:
"Tonight, it will be a year... my star, then, can be found right above the place where I came to the Earth, a year ago..."
"Little man," I said, "tell me that it is only a bad dream-- this affair of the snake, and the meeting-place, and the star..."
But he did not answer my plea. He said to me, instead: "The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen..."
"Yes, I know..."
"It is just as it is with the flower. If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
"Yes, I know..."
"It is just as it is with the water.
Because of the pulley, and the rope, what you gave me to drink was like music. You remember-- how good it was."
"Yes, I know..."
"And at night you will look up at the stars. Where I live everything is so small that I cannot show you where my star is to be found.
It is better, like that. My star will be just one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens... they will all be your friends.
And, besides, I am going to make you a present..."
He laughed again.
"Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!"
"That is my present. Just that. It will be just as it was when we drank the water..."
"What are you trying to say?"
"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people.
For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides.
For others they are no more than little lights in the sky.
For others, who are scholars, they are problems.
For my businessman they were wealth.
But all these stars are silent. You-- you alone-- will have the stars as no one else has them--"
"What are you trying to say?"
"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... you--
only you-- will have stars that can laugh!"
And he laughed again.
"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure...
and your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky!
Then you will say to them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!
‘ And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."
And he laughed again.
"It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh..."
And he laughed again. Then he quickly became serious:
"Tonight-- you know... do not come,"
"I shall not leave you," I said.
"I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do not come to see that. It is not worth the trouble..."
"I shall not leave you."
But he was worried.
"I tell you-- it is also because of the snake. He must not bite you. Snakes-- they are malicious creatures. This one might bite you just for fun..."
"I shall not leave you."
But a thought came to reassure him:
"It is true that they have no more poison for a second bite."（893 words）
-重点句子解析-
1. I was just coming to tell him that my work had been successful, beyond anything that I dared to hope. 我来正是想告诉他，我在多么绝望的情况下终于成功完成了我的工作。
「beyond anything that I dared to hope」：超越了任何我所能想象的坏情况。
2. I realised clearly that something extraordinary was happening. I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him...
「abyss」：“深渊”
「he was rushing headlong toward an abyss」：他即将坠入深渊。这里并不是说小王子要去跳崖，而是说，对于“我”而言，小王子的离开胜似深渊。
3. Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable.
「frozen」：“冻住的”
「something irreparable」：理解为“无法修补的伤口”
确认了小王子要离开，飞行员觉得自己的心便空了一块，甚至无法修补，可见多么不舍与难过。
好啦，这就是我们Chapter 18的学习内容，不知道大家都听懂了没有呢？那么在节目中呢我们也会给出大家英文原文还有这些重点句子的解析内容，希望大家在听完之后一定要再自己读一遍，同时呢记住这些重点的词汇和句型，这对英语学习是非常重要的，一定一定要自己再读一遍哦。好啦，我们本期的讲解就到这里啦，如果大家有什么意见和问题的话欢迎大家随时跟我联系，如果你喜欢我们的节目的话也请点赞和分享哦。今天就这样啦，我们下期再会喽。
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