“我并不是草呀。”花儿娇柔地说。
"Please excuse me..."
但她没有说下去。她来的时候是颗种子。她那里见过甚么别的处所。如此天真的谎话差点被小王子拆穿，她有点羞怒，立即假装咳嗽了两三声。这么做是要小王子处于有不对的职位，她说：“屏风呢？”
Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.
“早晨我但愿您能把我放到一个玻璃罩内里。你这处所太冷。我本来住的阿谁处所……”
“我并不怕甚么老虎，可我讨厌风产生的气流。你有没有屏风？”
“当然了，”花儿悠然得意地回应说，“我是与太阳同时出世的……”
半晌以后，她弥补说道：“我想现在该是吃早点的时候了吧，不知您是否能够帮我……”
小王子非常轻易地就能看出这花儿不太谦善，但是她确切标致动听。
"The screen"
小王子思忖着：“讨厌风……这对一株植物来讲，真不交运，这朵花儿的苦衷太庞大了……”
他还奉告我说：
很快我就进一步体味了这朵花儿。在小王子的星球上，畴昔一向都发展着一些只要一圈花瓣的很浅显的花。这些花非常小，一点也不占处所，向来也不会去打搅任何人。她们凌晨在草丛中开放，早晨就安静地干枯了。但是俄然有一天，不知从那里来了一颗种子，长出了一种新的花朵。小王子特别细心地监督着这棵与星球上其他任何植物都分歧的小苗，它说不定是一种新的猴面包树。
但是，这棵小苗不久就不再长了，而是开端冒出了花苞，孕育了一个花朵。看到花苞长出一个很大的花蕾，小王子信赖它必然会开出一朵出奇标致的花。但是这朵花藏在它那绿茵茵的房间里，迟迟不肯暴露斑斓的容颜，她用了很长的时候来打扮本身。她经心遴选她将来的色彩，慢腾腾地打扮着，一片片地调剂花瓣的位置，她不但愿本身仿佛野地里的虞美人那样一出世就满脸皱纹。她要让本身光艳夺目地来到人间。是的，她是非常在乎标致的。她用很多天时候天仙般地打扮打扮。然后，在一天的凌晨，刚幸亏太阳升起的时候，她暴露了本身的真脸孔。
因而花儿放开嗓门咳嗽了几声，就是要使小王子悔怨本身的不对。
“你刚才跟我说的时候，我就筹办去拿……”
"Am I not" the flower responded, sweetly. "And I was born at the same moment as the sun..."The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest― but how moving― and exciting― she was!
"I ought not to have listened to her," he confided to me one day. "One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity."And he continued his confidences:"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."