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一起讀《小王子》 | The Little Prince Chapter 7
- Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditation on his problem, he demanded:
abruptly 突然地
lead up to （把談話）引向（某個話題）
meditation 深思熟慮嗽冒；苦思冥想
demand 嚴肅地問 to ask a question in a very firm or angry way
- Even flowers that have thorns?
thorn 刺茄猫，棘刺
- At that moment I was very busy trying to unscrew a bolt that had got stuck in my engine.
unscrew 擰開柠衍；旋開 bolt 螺栓
- The little prince never let go of a question, once he had asked it.
let go of (something/someone) 放開甥雕；松開
- Then the little prince flashed back at me, with a kind of resentfulness:
resentfulness 怨恨盏道；憤慨；憎恨
- They reassure themselves as best they can.
reassure 使安心
- I am very busy with matters of consequence!
of consequence ** 重要的互艾；有價值的试和。所以在文中反復(fù)出現(xiàn)的關(guān)鍵詞matters of consequence**是什么呢？
- He stared at me, thunderstruck.
thunderstruck 極其驚訝的纫普；震驚的
- But he went on, relentlessly:
relentlessly 不停地阅悍；持續(xù)地
- And that makes him swell up with pride
swell up with pride 非常的驕傲（多用于書面語） swell up with joy 非常高興
- But he is not a man-- he is a mushroom!
mushroom 蘑菇
- Is the warfare between the sheep and the flowers not important?
warfare 作戰(zhàn)；戰(zhàn)爭
- If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars,
blossom 花昨稼， 花簇
- His words were choked by sobbing.
choke (使)噎捉谑印；(使)哽准偎ā寻行；(使)卡住
sobbing 啜泣
- I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower.
muzzle (罩住狗的口鼻的)嘴套，口套
railing （金屬的）欄桿匾荆，圍欄
- I felt awkward and blundering.
awkward 使人尷尬的寡痰；難處理的；棘手的
blundering. 愚蠢的棋凳；粗心的
- I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
這一句需要意譯了。
