《小王子》：一个讲给成人的童话故事！含双语文本(12)

我想他是趁一群野鸟迁徙的机会出走的。动身的那天早晨，他把星球收拾得井井有条。他仔细地疏通了活火山。星球上有两座活火山，热早餐很方便。还有一座死火山。不过，正像他所说的：“谁说得准呢！”所以这座死火山也照样要疏通。火山疏通过了，就会缓缓地、均匀地燃烧，不会喷发。火山喷发跟烟囱冒火是一样的。
On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes. That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us.
当然，在地球上，我们实在太小了，没法去疏通火山。它们造成那么多麻烦，就是由于这个缘故。
The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs. He believed that he would never want to return. But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him. And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe, he realised that he was very close to tears.
小王子还拔掉了刚长出来的几株猴面包树幼苗。他心情有点忧郁，心想这一走就再也回不来了。所有这些习惯的活儿，这天早上都显得格外亲切。而当他最后一次给花儿浇水，准备给她盖上罩子的时候，他只觉得想哭。
"Goodbye," he said to the flower.
“再见啦，”他对花儿说。
But she made no answer.
可是她没有回答。
"Goodbye," he said again.
“再见啦，”他又说了一遍。
The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold.