🤗 I don't like people read my books blindly.It was so sadly to tell these memories.My friend has left six years with his sheep. In order to not forget him, I tried my best to paint it. Such sorrowful a thing is forgetting a friend. Not anyone has had a friend ever.
✏️ For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.
🤗 Otherwise,I may be only intrigued by figures akin to these grown-up one day.Chalk to this,I bought a can of color and some pencils.Now, It was too laborious for me，without trying to paint anything except the picture of boa constrictor about inside and outside belly at six years old,to start to draw.
✏️ And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures...
It is for that purpose, again, that I have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six.
🤗 Certainly,I must draw these drawing lividly,but I wasn't sure about it. One may be painted well,other terribly. And I can't measure the size of figure correctly.On this picture, the little prince was quietly big,another one may be smaller than former. The color of his dressing was always confusing for me
✏️ I shall certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible.But I am not at all sure of success.
One drawing goes along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject.
I make some errors, too, in the littl e prince's height: in one place he is too tall and in another too short.
And I feel some doubts about the color of his costume.
🤗 Then tracked my way of trying and correcting,I painted a sketch of his body appropriately.It may be wrong in some details,on the ground that he never explained those details to me.
✏️ So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair-to-middling.In certain more important details I shall make mistakes, also. But that is something that will not be my fault. My friend never explained anything to me
🤡 fair to middling adj.
释义：about average; acceptable 过得去的，还行的
同义： adequate, passable, tolerable
🤗 In his mind,we were familiar.It was a pity,However,that I can't see the sheep through the small box.Maybe I was a bit akin to the grownup people.Namely, I became old.
✏️ He thought, perhaps, that I was like himself. But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.
