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Little Prince，Antoine de Saint Exupéry [法]著，词数17161，首万词不重复词数1613，词汇难度很低，相当于《纳尼亚传奇》的水平。伍教练透析的第43部英文小说。

我刚从DON JUAN的苦海脱出，又逢年底要赶着完成“一年读十本”的目标，才把电子版做成java书拖到摩托罗拉里做掉。这本书超短，比《The old man and the sea》还少几千字，比最薄的《Who moved my cheese?》稍长。有次在等别人给我准备材料的功夫，闲着也是闲着，一口气就吞掉了20%！

早就知道这本小书不是写给我读的，而是写给小孩和老顽童的，讲的是一个外星小孩（书名Little Prince不禁启发我翻译成“小屁孩”）的星际之旅，最后终于地球的寓言故事。老实说，伍教练读后没有感，不好玩，尽管读书过程中心理也蛮舒服的。生词极少，全书透析下来也就查了约10个生词吧，伍教练仅在读到16%时查第一个生词：baobab【植】猴子面包树(非洲产，所产果实可供食用)，这个反复出现的词要在谷歌金山词霸才能查到，指的是小屁孩居住小行星上的危害树种，需要及时除掉——伍教练纳闷：会长面包不是很好吗？ 

特此向小学高年级学生和入门者推荐这本世界级的儿童读物——我教人的话，六年级便可读哈利波特了，相比之下这本英文版容易许多，适宜小学生自学或家长辅助下透析。我小学的时候没读此书，不知是不是一个遗憾，既对不起那个时候的英语水平，也对不起被德军炸死的作者——我小学的时候到额娘公司的图书馆看的是《教父》（中文），可惜没有人告诉我读《LITTLE PRINCE》。以后有了孩子，一定要把这本好书作为启蒙读物，早早让他们学会透析。 

变成了大人之后，伍教练现在更喜欢Mario Puzo，Tom Clancy, Dan Brown这类老奸巨猾+无所不用其极的作家……

Little Prince【前2章】
Written By Antoine de SaiotExupery
(1900～1944)
Preface
To Leon Werth
ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a
grownup.
I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have
another reason: this grownup
understands everything, even books about children. I have
a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If
all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this
grownup
grew. All grownups
were once childrenalthough
few of them remember it.
And so I correct my dedication:
To Leon Werth
when he was a little boy
[ Chapter1 ]
we
are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas about grownups
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 with
a 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. Grownups
never understand
anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever
explaining things to them.
So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a
little over all parts of the world? and it is true that geography has been very useful to me.
At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such
knowledge is valuable.
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many
people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal
among grownups.
I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn‘t much
improved my opinion of them.
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clearsighted,
I tried the
experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would
try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or
she, would always say:"That is a hat."
Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or
stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf,
and politics, and neckties. And the grownup
would be greatly pleased to have met such a
sensible man.
[ Chapter2 ]
the
narrator crashes in the desert and makes the acquaintance of the
little prince
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 pleasedraw
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 potrait 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 grownups
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: "Butwhat
are you doing here?"
And in answer he repeated, very slowly, as if he were speaking of a matter of great
consequence: "If you pleasedraw
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 fountainpen.
But then I rememberedhow 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 indulgenty. "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 thatLook!
He has gone to sleep..."
And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.

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