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...
它们温馨地甜睡在泥土中，直到此中的一粒俄然想要复苏过来……因而它就伸展开身子，先是害臊地朝着太阳长出一棵娟秀敬爱的小嫩苗。如果是小萝卜或是玫瑰的嫩苗，就任由它去尽情地发展。如果是一棵坏苗，一旦被辨认出来，就应当顿时把它拔掉。
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.
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.