小王子英文版PPT
PrologueOnce when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, ...
PrologueOnce when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature. It was a picture of the gorilla in his native habitat. I drew the gorilla and, in the margin, I wrote that I would like to have a real gorilla, instead of a stuffed one. And my wish came true: for my birthday I got a black suitcase. It was filled with crocodiles.IWhen you are all grown up, you reach a point in your life when you discover that all the stories you were told when you were young were lies. And once you reach that point there are only two possible courses of action open to you: up to now, as far as I can see, there is only one possible course of action open to grown-ups: they go on as if they had never made a discovery, and they never stop to ask themselves whether the world they live in is the best possible one. As for me, I am always on the lookout for new discoveries. And it happens from time to time that I stumble across some magnificent ones.III have lived a great many lives: I have been a miller, a surveyor of customs, a seller of antiques—in all these lives I have been always the same man: I have always wept a little for my own unhappiness. When I was a miller, for instance, I wept because I was bored with the miller’s work and because I was not a butterfly. The Miller said that butterflies were useless and that they were pretty things that did no harm but simply fluttered around and did not worry about the mill. But I saw some of them fluttering around the mill and they were always in a hurry as if they had something important to do. I could not help feeling that they had their reasons for being different from the rest and that their reasons were good ones.IIIIf you are in love with the present moment you do not seek the love of your life; you do not ask "What is my heart's desire?". The knowledge you seek in this case is quite simple: if you like spending your time with a certain person, it is because that person is your friend.