他平静地看着我，明白了我的设法：“我也渴了……我们去找一口井吧……”
他累了，他坐下来。我在他身边坐下。沉默了一会儿，他又说道：“星星是很美的，因为有一朵人们看不到的花……”
“因为我就要渴死了。”
“啊！”我对小王子说，“你回想的这些故事真吸惹人。但是，我还没有修好我的飞机。我没有水了，假定我能落拓地走到水泉边，我必然也会很欢畅的！”
He was tired. He sat down. I sat down beside him. And, after a little silence, he spoke again:"The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen."I replied, "Yes, that is so." And, without saying anything more, I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us in the moonlight.
我不懂他的话是甚么意义，可我也不作声……我非常清楚几次查问他是不成能的。
他不睬解我的思路，他说：
But he did not reply to my question. He merely said to me:"Water may also be good for the heart..."I did not understand this answer, but I said nothing. I knew very well that it was impossible to cross-examine him.
"The desert is beautiful," the little prince added.
"My dear little man, this is no longer a matter that has anything to do with the fox!""Why not"
“为甚么不？”
It was now the eighth day since I had had my accident in the desert, and I had listened to the story of the merchant as I was drinking the last drop of my water supply.
我答复道：“是的。”然后我就不再多说甚么，只是冷静地看着月光下戈壁的起伏的波浪。
"Ah," I said to the little prince, "these memories of yours are very charming; but I have not yet succeeded in repairing my plane; I have nothing more to drink; and I, too, should be very happy if I could walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water!""My friend the fox―" the little prince said to me.