04. 初识小王子（讲解）

节目文稿

So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs all alone. It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.

The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice. It said:

“If you please—draw me a sheep!”

“What!”

“Draw me a sheep!”

I jumped to my feet, completely thunderstruck. I blinked my eyes hard. I looked carefully all around me. And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness. Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. But my drawing is certainly very much less charming than its model.



That, however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter’s career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.

语言点

- neither… nor…：既不……也不……
- attempt：v. 企图
- scarcely：adv. 几乎不；例：She could scarcely believe her eyes. 她几乎不敢相信自己的眼睛。
- last：v. 持续
- habitation：n. 居住
- isolate：v. 使……脱离/孤立；例：to isolate a patient 把病人隔离起来；isolated：adj. 孤单的
- shipwreck：n. 海难；例：10 people died in the shipwreck. 十人在海难中丧生。v. 遭遇海难
- raft：n. 筏子 / 充气船
- thunderstruck：adj. 惊呆的
- blink：v. 眨眼；例：(to do sth.) without blinking 不眨眼地，毫不犹豫地
- examine：v. 检查
- portrait：n. 肖像

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