读英文书——《小王子》第一章

英文及插图均选自Katherine Woods英译本。

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

我六岁时，在一本叫《真实的大自然》的书里见到了一张了不得的插图，画了原始森林里的一条大蟒蛇吞食动物。那张图是这样的：

I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked something like this:

书里写道：蟒蛇会把猎物整个吞下，从不咀嚼。之后它们不再移动，进入长达六个月的睡眠，以消化猎物。

这丛林里的奇观让我思索了很久。我找出一根彩色铅笔，画了我的第一幅画。一号画作。这幅画是这样的：

I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

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