每天一分鐘左右聽寫，帶你走進(jìn)小王子的世界。
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boa constrictor
grown-ups
Drawing Number Two
Drawing Number One
Arizona
文中插圖：
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing. I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this: The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.
我畫的不是帽子，是一條巨蟒在消化著一頭大象。于是我又把巨蟒肚子里的情況畫了出來，以便讓大人們能夠看懂。這些大人總是需要解釋。我的第二號作品是這樣的： 大人們勸我把這些畫著開著肚皮的，或閉上肚皮的蟒蛇的圖畫放在一邊，還 是把興趣放在地理、歷史、算術(shù)、語法上。就這樣，在六歲的那年，我就放棄了 當(dāng)畫家這一美好的職業(yè)。我的第一號、第二號作品的不成功，使我泄了氣。這些大人們，靠他們自己什么也弄不懂，還得老是不斷地給他們作解釋。這真叫孩子們膩味。 后來，我只好選擇了另外一個職業(yè)，我學(xué)會了開飛機(jī)，世界各地差不多都飛到過。的確地理學(xué)幫了我很大的忙。我一眼就能分辨出中國和亞里桑那。要是夜里迷失了航向，這是很有用的。