第十七章[第1页/共4页]

蛇就盘结在小王子的脚腕子上，像一只金镯子。

小王子达到地球时一小我都看不到，他感到非常奇特，当一圈金黄色的玉轮的光芒，闪烁在沙地上时，他开端惊骇他来到了一个弊端的星球。

“在地球上，这里是非洲。”蛇答复道。

"Ah! Then there are no people on the Earth""This is the desert. There are no people in the desert. The Earth is large," said the snake.

"Good evening," said the little prince courteously.

“我能够把你带到很远的处所去，比任何一只船能去的处所还要远。”蛇说道。

“我落在甚么星球上了？”小王子问道。

“噢……莫非说地球上没有人吗？”

"Ah!" said the snake.

因而他们又都沉默起来。

"Whomever I touch, I send back to the earth from whence he came," the snake spoke again. "But you are innocent and true, and you come from a star..."The little prince made no reply.

The little prince gazed at him for a long time.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the lamplighters. And I realize that I run the risk of giving a false idea of our planet to those who do not k now it. Men occupy a very small place upon the Earth. If the two billion inhabitants who people its surface were all to stand upright and somewhat crowded together, as they do for some big public assembly, they could easily be put into one public square twenty miles long and twenty miles wide. All humanity could be piled up on a small Pacific islet.