《2025年情景导学高中英语选择性必修第二册外研版》

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《小王子》是法国作家圣埃克苏佩里写的一部中篇小说。飞行员在六年前因飞机故障困在撒哈拉沙漠,不料遇到来自小行星的小王子。小王子向飞行员讲述了他的冒险经历,两人成了朋友。小说用“写给大人看的”童话的形式,用幽默风趣的语言,赞扬了纯洁的友谊和爱情。
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小王子去了许多不同的星球旅行,最后来到了地球,遇到了落难的飞行员。小王子要求飞行员给他画一只绵羊。
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So I lived all alone, without anyone I could really talk to, until I had to make a crash landing in the Sahara Desert six years ago. Something in my plane’s engine had broken, and since I had neither a mechanic nor passengers in the plane with me, I was preparing to undertake the difficult repair job by myself. For me it was a matter of life or death：I had only enough drinking water for a week.
我孤独地生活着,没有一个真正谈得来的人,直到六年前,有一次飞机出了故障,降落在撒哈拉沙漠。飞机的引擎出了问题。因为我身边既没有机械师,也没有乘客,我就打算单枪匹马来完成这项困难的维修工作。对我来说,这是个生死攸关的问题：我带的水只够喝一星期了。
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand a thousand miles from any inhabited country. I was more isolated than a man shipwrecked on a raft in the middle of the ocean. So you can imagine my surprise when I was awakened at daybreak by a funny little voice saying, “Please... draw me a sheep...”
第一天晚上,我睡在沙地上,周围上千英里(1英里≈1.6公里)都是无人区,比遭遇海难、靠一只木筏在大海中漂流的人还孤独。所以,当天蒙蒙亮,有个奇怪的声音轻轻把我喊醒的时候,你们可以想象我有多么惊讶。这个声音说：“请……给我画只绵羊……”
“What?”
“什么？”
“Draw me a sheep...”
“给我画只绵羊……”
I leaped up as if I had been struck by lightning. I rubbed my eyes hard. I stared. And I saw an extraordinary little fellow staring back at me very seriously. Here is the best portrait I managed to make of him, later on. But of course my drawing is much less attractive than my model. This is not my fault. My career as a painter was discouraged at the age of six by the grown - ups, and I had never learned to draw anything except boa constrictors, outside and inside.
我像被闪电击中似的,猛地一下子跳了起来。我使劲地揉了揉眼睛,仔细地看了看。只见一个非同寻常的小人儿,正一本正经地看着我呢。后来我努力给他画了一幅最好的肖像,就是旁边的这幅。不过我的画当然远远不及本人那么吸引人。这不是我的错。我的画家生涯在六岁那年就让大人给断送了,除了画蟒蛇外部和蟒蛇内部,我后来再没学过画任何东西。
So I stared wide - eyed at this apparition. Don’t forget that I was a thousand miles from any inhabited territory.There was nothing in his appearance that suggested a child lost in the middle of the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited territory. When I finally managed to speak, I asked him, “But... what are you doing here?”
我瞪大眼睛盯着这个不速之客。你们别忘了,这儿离有人住的地方有上千英里呢。可是这个小人儿,看上去并不像迷了路,也不像累得要命、饿得要命、渴得要命或怕得要命。他一点不像在周围上千英里都是无人区的沙漠里迷路的孩子。当我总算说得出话时,我问他：“可是……你在这儿干吗？”
And then he repeated, very slowly and very seriously, “Please... draw me a sheep...”
然后他缓缓地重复了一遍,好像那是件很要紧的事情：“请……给我画一只绵羊……”
—Selected from The Little Prince
——节选自《小王子》
词句积累
1. 重要词汇
①undertake /ʌndəˈteɪk/ v. 承担；着手做
②inhabited /ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd/ adj. 有人居住的；有动物栖居的
2. 重要句式
Yet this little fellow seemed to be neither lost nor dying of exhaustion, hunger, or thirst; nor did he seem scared to death. 可是这个小人儿,看上去并不像迷了路,也不像累得要命、饿得要命、渴得要命或怕得要命。
本句中的 neither... nor... 表示“既不……也不……”,可连接任意两个并列成分；第二个 nor 表示“也不”,是副词,位于句首时引起部分倒装。
读书笔记
Why did the little fellow wake the pilot up? To ask the pilot to draw him a sheep.

答案： To ask the pilot to draw him a sheep.