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"But you are a geographer!"
"Exactly," the geographer said. "But I am not an explorer. I haven't a single explorer on my planet. It is not the geographer who goes out to count the towns, the rivers, the mountains, the seas, the oceans, and the deserts. The geographer is much too important to go loafing about. He does not leave his desk. But he receives the explorers in his study. He asks them questions, and he notes down what they recall of their travels. And if the recollections of any one among them seem interesting to him, the geographer orders an inquiry into that explorer's moral character."
"Why is that?"
"Because an explorer who told lies would bring disaster on the books of the geographer. So would an explorer who drank too much."
"Why is that?" asked the little prince.
"Because intoxicated men see double. Then the geographer would note down two mountains in a place where there was only one."
"I know some one," said the little prince, "who would make a bad explorer."
"That is possible. Then, when the moral character of the explorer is shown to be good, an inquiry is ordered into his discovery."
"One goes to see it?"
"No. That would be too complicated. But one requires the explorer to furnish proofs. For example, if the discovery in question is that of a large mountain, one requires that large stones be brought back from it."
The geographer was suddenly stirred to excitement.
"But you--you come from far away! You are an explorer! You shall describe your planet to me!"
And, having opened his big register, the geographer sharpened his pencil. The recitals of explorers are put down first in pencil. One waits until the explorer has furnished proofs, before putting them down in ink.
语言点
- receive：v. 接收 / 欢迎；例：I was received with open arms. 我受到了热情的欢迎。
- recall：v. 召回，回忆起；例：to recall a product 召回产品；例：I don’t recall doing that. 我不记得我做过这件事。
- disaster：n. 灾难
- intoxicated：adj. 喝醉的；例：Don’t drive while intoxicated. 不要醉酒驾驶。
- see double：看到重影
- furnish：v. 配家具 / 提供
- stir：v. 搅动 / 使……激动；例：She stirred her tea with a silver spoon. 她用银汤匙搅了搅茶。例：The film stirred many memories of my childhood. 这部电影唤起了我童年的许多记忆。
- register：n. 登记簿；例：a hotel register 旅馆登记簿；v. 登记，注册
- sharpen：v. 磨快；例：to sharpen a pencil/knife 削铅笔/磨刀
- recital：n. 叙述 / 表演会；例：a piano recital 钢琴独奏会
- put down：写下；例：can you put it down in writing? 你能把它写下来吗？
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