My Opinion
小王子第一章通篇通俗易懂,它主要描述了大人和小孩们之间不同年龄,不同经历,不同思想之间的碰撞火花和矛盾,原本此矛盾可以在属于占有优势的大人一面被轻松的解决掉。但是因为他们的漠视而导致一些根本不必要的事情在继续蔓延。从始至终,及至不分对错。
愿所有的善良都被真诚以待!
Original
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:(here the image is missed)
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, 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 am elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained . My Drawing Number Two looked this:
The grown-ups' 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. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining thins 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 consequences. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. 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 meat all clear-sighted, 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 starts. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
Translation
当我六岁的时候我在一本被称为原始森林里的真实的故事书中看到一张壮丽的插图,它描述的是一个大蟒蛇正在吞食一个动物的行为的场面,这张图片是一个简单的描绘。
书中讲到:“巨蟒不用咀嚼就整个吞食掉他们的猎物,然后他们将不能动弹,必须通过沉睡6个月来消化(食物)”
我深思,然后,通过在丛林的经历, 在开始一些准备工作和一支彩色铅笔之后我成功的描绘出了我的第一幅绘画作品,我的第一幅绘画作品!他看起来是这样子的:
我给大人们展示我的杰作,并询问他们是否(我的杰作)吓到他们?
但是他们(大人)回答: ‘吓(到我们)? 为什么有人应该会害怕一顶帽子?’
我的作品(描绘的)并不是一顶帽子,我画的是大蟒蛇正在吞食一头大象(的过程)。但是自从大人们不理解它,我又画了另外一张画: 我画了蟒蛇的(身体)内部,这样大人们就可以看的很清楚,他们总是有一些事情需要(我)解释。我的第二幅画是这样子的:
这次,大人们的反应,是建议让我把我的蟒蛇的绘画(作品)放在一边, 不管是从内部还是外部, 而应该让我自己致力于地理,历史,数学,文学。这就是为什么,在六岁的年级,我(被迫)放弃了那个可能使绘画成为我的毕生伟大职业生涯(的梦想)。因为我的第一幅绘画和第二幅绘画(不被他们理解)我很沮丧。大人们从来没了解过关于他们自己的任何事情,对小朋友来说无聊的总是永远(要)给他们解释一些事情会让他们对那些事情(绘画)渐渐丧失信心。
所以后来我选择了另外一个职业,并且学习了驾驶飞机,我已经飞行世界的绝大多数地方,事实是地理学知识对我是非常有用的。我能从亚利桑那州一眼分辨出中国,如果一个人在夜里迷失了(航向),这样的知识是非常有价值的。
在这个生活中,我一直与相当多的对许多事情的结果忧心的人有一些紧密的接触。我生活在相当多的成年人当中, 我密切的关注他们,近在迟迟, 但(这)并没有提高我对他们的看法。
无论我遇到他们中的某一个看起来非常有聪明的人,我努力尝试过给他看我的第一幅画。我一直这样(尝试给聪明的人看我的绘画). 我尝试找到,但是,假如有一个人真的理解。但是,那些人,他或者她总是说:
这是一顶帽子。
然后我再也不会跟他们说起关于蟒蛇, 或者原始森林, 或者星球(的故事). 我可能使我自己到他们的(认知)水平, 我可以同他们讨论桥梁,高尔夫, 政治,领带,那时候大人们对于遇见这样一个明智的人开始变的非常高兴.