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“我当时甚么也不懂！我应当按照她的行动，而不是听她的话来判定她。她芳香四溢，让我的糊口芳香多彩，我真不该分开她跑出来。我早该猜到，在她那令人垂怜的小把戏前面埋没着多少柔情啊。花的苦衷多么自相冲突！我当时太年青，还不晓得爱她。”

小王子非常轻易地就能看出这花儿不太谦善，但是她确切标致动听。

“哦，你真标致！”

“当然了，”花儿悠然得意地回应说，“我是与太阳同时出世的……”

小王子思忖着：“讨厌风……这对一株植物来讲，真不交运，这朵花儿的苦衷太庞大了……”

"Am I not" the flower responded, sweetly. "And I was born at the same moment as the sun..."The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest― but how moving― and exciting― she was!

“早晨我但愿您能把我放到一个玻璃罩内里。你这处所太冷。我本来住的阿谁处所……”

"I think it is time for breakfast," she added an instant later. "If you would have the kindness to think of my needs―"And the little prince, completely abashed, went to look for a sprinkling-can of fresh water. So, he tended the flower.

以是，小王子本来诚恳诚意地喜好这朵花，但是，这一来，却使他顿时对她产生了思疑。小王子对一些无关紧急的话看得太当真，这让他很忧?。

但是，这棵小苗不久就不再长了，而是开端冒出了花苞，孕育了一个花朵。看到花苞长出一个很大的花蕾，小王子信赖它必然会开出一朵出奇标致的花。但是这朵花藏在它那绿茵茵的房间里，迟迟不肯暴露斑斓的容颜，她用了很长的时候来打扮本身。她经心遴选她将来的色彩，慢腾腾地打扮着，一片片地调剂花瓣的位置，她不但愿本身仿佛野地里的虞美人那样一出世就满脸皱纹。她要让本身光艳夺目地来到人间。是的，她是非常在乎标致的。她用很多天时候天仙般地打扮打扮。然后，在一天的凌晨，刚幸亏太阳升起的时候，她暴露了本身的真脸孔。

"I ought not to have listened to her," he confided to me one day. "One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity."And he continued his confidences:"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."