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今天与大伙推荐的是《小王子》经典故事。
- we are warned as to the dangers of the baobabs
As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little prince's planet, his departure from it, his journey. The information would come very slowly, as it might chance to fall from his thoughts. It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
This time, once more, I had the sheep to thank for it. For the little prince asked me abruptly-- as if seized by a grave doubt-- It is true, isn't it, that sheep eat little bushes?
Yes, that is true.
Ah! I am glad!
I did not understand why it was so important that sheep should eat little bushes. But the little prince added:
Then it follows that they also eat baobabs?
I pointed out to the little prince that baobabs were not little bushes, but, on the contrary, trees as big as castles; and that even if he took a whole herd of elephants away with him, the herd would not eat up one single baobab.
The idea of the herd of elephants made the little prince laugh.
We would have to put them one on TOP of the other, he said.
But he made a wise comment:
Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little.
That is strictly correct, I said. But why do you want the sheep to eat the little baobabs?
He answered me at once, Oh, come, come!, as if he were speaking of something that was self-evident. And I was obliged to make a great mental effort to solve this problem, without any assistance.
Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived-- as on all planets-- good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth's darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch itself and begin-- timidly at first-- to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the sun. If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it.
Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces…
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天天我都获悉一些关于小王子的星球，他的出走和旅游等事情。这类都是 偶然从各种反应中慢慢得到的。就如此，第三天我就获悉关于猴面包树的悲剧。
这一次又是由于羊的事情，忽然小王子好象是很担忧地问我道：
“羊吃小灌木，这是不是真的？”
“是的，是真的。”
“啊，我真开心。”
我不知道羊吃小灌木这件事为何这样要紧。可小王子又说道：
“因此，它们也吃猴面包树罗？”
我对小王子说，猴面包树可不是小灌木，而是象教堂那样大的大树；即使是 带回一群大象，也啃不了一棵猴面包树。
一群大象这种想法使小王子发笑：
“那可得把这类大象一只叠一只地垒起来。”
他非常有见识地说：
“猴面包树在长大之前，开始也是小小的。”
“很好。可是为何你想叫你的羊去吃小猴面包树呢？”
他回答我道：“唉！这还用说！”好像这是不言而喻的。可是我一个人要费非常 大的心劲才能弄懂这个问题。
原来，在小王子的星球上就象其他所有星球上一样，有好草和坏草；因此， 也就有益草的草籽和毒草的草籽，可是草籽是看不见的。它们沉睡在泥土里，直到其中的一粒突然想要苏醒过来……于是它就伸展开身子，开始害羞地朝着太阳长 出一棵秀丽可爱的小嫩苗。若是小萝卜或是玫瑰的嫩苗，就让它去自由地成长。若是一棵坏苗，一旦被辨认出来，就应该立刻把它拔掉。由于在小王子的星球 上，有的很可怕的种子……这就是猴面包树的种子。在那里的泥土里，这种种子多得成灾。而一棵猴面包树苗，倘若你拔得太迟，就再也没办法把它清除掉。它就 会盘踞整个星球。它的树根能把星球钻透，假如星球非常小，而猴面包树不少，它就把整个星球搞得支离破碎。
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