
《《小王子》》经典语录:英文原文与中文翻译
The Little Prince
从安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里的《《小王子》》中选出的15句经典语录,英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读,配有翻译、朗读和词典。
“Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
「再见,」狐狸说。「现在我把我的秘密告诉你,一个很简单的秘密:只有用心才能看得清楚;本质的东西,眼睛是看不见的。」
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
「正是你为你的玫瑰花费的时间,才使你的玫瑰变得如此重要。」
“You know — one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…”
「你知道,一个人感到忧伤的时候,就喜欢看日落……」
“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”
「使沙漠显得美丽的,」小王子说,「是它在某个地方藏着一口井……」
出自“ХXIV”
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart…”
「可是眼睛是盲目的。必须用心去寻找……」
“It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.
「在人群中间,也是孤独的。」蛇说。
出自“ХVII”
“Men?” she echoed. “I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.”
「人吗?」她接着说。「我想大概有六七个吧。几年前我见过他们。可是谁也不知道到哪里去找他们。风把他们吹走了。他们没有根,这使他们的生活很艰难。」
“Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered. “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
「那你就审判你自己吧,」国王回答说。「这是最难的一件事。审判自己比审判别人要难得多。如果你能正确地审判自己,那你就是一个真正有智慧的人。」
“Exactly. One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform,” the king went on. “Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable.”
「一点不错。一个人应该要求每个人做他力所能及的事,」国王接着说。「权威首先应该建立在理性之上。如果你命令你的百姓去跳海,他们就会起来革命。我有权要求别人服从,因为我的命令是合理的。」
I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
我不知道该对他说什么。我觉得很尴尬,很笨拙。我不知道怎样才能接近他,怎样才能重新和他手拉手地走在一起。眼泪的国度是多么神秘啊。
“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…”
「我自己有一朵花,」他继续和商人谈话,「我每天给她浇水。我有三座火山,我每星期把它们全部打扫一遍(连那座死火山我也打扫,谁知道会怎么样呢)。我拥有它们,对我的火山和花都有好处。可是你对星星却毫无用处……」
“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.”
「这个人,」小王子继续赶路时自言自语地说,「会被其他所有人瞧不起:被国王、被爱慕虚荣的人、被酒鬼、被商人瞧不起。可是在我看来,他是他们当中唯一一个不显得可笑的人。也许是因为他关心的不是他自己。」
“It is the time I have wasted for my rose — ” said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
「正是我为我的玫瑰花费的时间……」小王子说,为的是让自己牢牢记住。
“I am responsible for my rose,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
「我要对我的玫瑰负责……」小王子又重复了一遍,为的是让自己牢牢记住。
He said to me, instead: “The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen…”
他却对我说:「最重要的东西是看不见的……」
免费阅读全书逐句翻译,自然语音,一键词典