48. 生活需要仪式（讲解）

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The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.

"Please--tame me!" he said.

"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."

"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."

"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.

"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that-- in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."

The next day the little prince came back.

"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."

"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.

"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."

语言点

- discover：v. 发现；例：to discover the truth 查明真相 / We discovered the best sushi place in New York. 我们在纽约找到了一家很棒的寿司店。
- ready made：adj. 成品的；例：a kitchen fitted with ready-made cupboards 配有整体橱柜的厨房 / a ready-made suit 成品套装
- patient：adj. 有耐心的
- at a distance：在远处
- out of the corner of one’s eye：用余光观察
- advance：v. 前进，增进；例：The troops advanced into enemy territory. 部队进入到了敌军地界。He has been advancing rather quickly in his career. 他事业上升得很快。
- observe：v. 注意到 / 遵守 / 庆祝；例：Did you observe anything strange? 你注意到有什么异常吗？Do you observe this holiday in your country? 你的国家庆祝这个节日吗？
- rite：n. 仪式；例：a rite of passage [标志人生重要阶段的] 通过仪式
- vineyard：n. 葡萄园