“The grown-ups are very strange, "the litle prince said to himself, as he continued on his journey引自第60页
小王子去了小行星326号,遇到了一个自负的、只听得到赞美的男人说出的话。
“The grown-ups are certainly very odd”引自第64页
小王子去了小行星327号,遇到了为了忘记因为喝酒而愧疚而一直喝酒的酒鬼说出的话。
The grown-ups are certainly very, very odd引自第67页
小王子去了小行星328号,遇到了一个一直在赚星星的男人,说
“I myself own a flower”, he continued his conversation with the businessman, “which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows). It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. but you are of no use to the stars .”
The businessman opened his mouth, but he found nothing to say answer. And the little prince went away
The grown-ups are certainly altogether extraordinary,”he said simply, talking to himself as he continued on his journey.引自第76页
小王子去第五个星球,遇到一个非常遵守规定,一直在开灯关灯的男人。
" That man, said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, " that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."
He breathed a sigh of regret, and said to himself, again:
" That man is the only of them all whom I could have made my friend. But his planet is indeed too small. There is no room on it for people..."
What the prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blessed every day with 1440 sunsets!引自第82页