18. 愤怒的小王子（讲解）

节目文稿

I did not answer. At that instant I was saying to myself: "If this bolt still won't turn, I am going to knock it out with the hammer." Again the little prince disturbed my thoughts:

"And you actually believe that the flowers--"

"Oh, no!" I cried. "No, no, no! I don't believe anything. I answered you with the first thing that came into my head. Don't you see--I am very busy with matters of consequence!"

He stared at me, thunderstruck.

"Matters of consequence!"

He looked at me there, with my hammer in my hand, my fingers black with engine-grease, bending down over an object which seemed to him extremely ugly . . .

"You talk just like the grown-ups!"

That made me a little ashamed. But he went on, relentlessly:

"You mix everything up together . . . You confuse everything . . ."

He was really very angry. He tossed his golden curls in the breeze.

"I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man--he is a mushroom!"

"A what?"

"A mushroom!"

The little prince was now white with rage.

语言点

- knock out：敲出 / 打晕；例：He nearly knocked me out. 他差点把我打昏。
- disturb：v. 打扰；例：Do not disturb. 请勿打扰。
- grease：n. 油脂；v. 给……加润滑油；例：to grease the wheels 使事情顺利进行
- ashamed：adj. 惭愧的；例：It's nothing to be ashamed of. 这没有什么难为情的。
- relentlessly：adv. 持续地，无情地；例：He is relentless! 他真是没完没了啊！
- confuse：v. 混淆；例：Try not to confuse sympathy with weakness. 不要把同情当做软弱。
- curl：n. 卷发；v. 弄卷；例：to curl one’s hair 卷头发
- breeze：n. 微风；例：It’s a breeze. 这事易如反掌。
- swell up：肿胀，涌起；例：Anger swelled up in her chest. 她心中涌起愤怒。
- rage：n. 狂怒；例：trembling/white/red with rage 气得发抖/脸色发白/涨红了脸

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