那只等爱的狐狸

                
                
“你是谁？”小王子说，“你很漂亮。”
"Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."
 
“我是一只狐狸。”狐狸说。
"I am a fox," said the fox.
 
“来和我一起玩吧，”小王子建议道，“我很苦恼…”
"Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy."
 
“我不能和你一起玩，”狐狸说，“我还没有被驯服呢。”
"I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed."
“我来找人。”小王子说，“什么叫‘驯服’呢？”
"I am looking for men," said the little prince. "What does that mean-- 'tame'?"
 
“这是已经早就被人遗忘了的事情，”狐狸说，“它的意思就是‘建立联系’。”
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."
 
“建立联系？”
"'To establish ties'?"
 
“一点不错，”狐狸说。“对我来说，你还只是一个小男孩，就像其他千万个小男孩一样。我不需要你。你也同样用不着我。对你来说，我也不过是一只狐狸，和其他千万只狐狸一样。但是，如果你驯服了我，我们就互相不可缺少了。对我来说，你就是世界上唯一的了；我对你来说，也是世界上唯一的了。”
 "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."
 
“我有点明白了。”小王子说，“有一朵花…，我想，她把我驯服了…”
 "I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
 
“我的生活很单调。我捕捉鸡，而人又捕捉我。所有的鸡全都一样，所有的人也全都一样。因此，我感到有些厌烦了。但是，如果你要是驯服了我，我的生活就一定会是欢快的。我会辨认出一种与众不同的脚步声。其他的脚步声会使我躲到地下去，而你的脚步声就会象音乐一样让我从洞里走出来。再说，你看！你看到那边的麦田没有？我不吃面包，麦子对我来说，一点用也没有。我对麦田无动于衷。而这，真使人扫兴。但是，你有着金黄色的头发。那么，一旦你驯服了我，这就会十分美妙。麦子，是金黄色的，它就会使我想起你。而且，我甚至会喜欢那风吹麦浪的声音…”
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."
狐狸沉默不语，久久地看着小王子。
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
 
“请你，驯养我吧。”小狐狸说
"Please-- tame me!" he said.
 
 “只有被驯服了的事物，才会被了解。”狐狸说，“人不会再有时间去了解任何东西的。他们总是到商人那里去购买现成的东西。因为世界上还没有购买朋友的商店，所以人也就没有朋友。如果你想要一个朋友，那就驯服我吧！”
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..."
“那么应当做些什么呢？”小王子说。
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
 
“应当非常耐心。”狐狸回答道，“开始你就这样坐在草丛中，坐得离我稍微远些。我用眼角瞅着你，你什么也不要说。话语是误会的根源。但是，每天，你坐得靠我更近些…”
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me-- like that-- in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."
 
第二天，小王子又来了。
The next day the little prince came back.
 
“你要能在每天同一个时间来就更好了。”狐狸说道，“比如说你在下午四点来，从三点开始，我就开始感觉很快乐，时间越临近，我就越来越感到快乐。到了四点钟的时候，我就会坐立不安，我发现了幸福的价值。但是，如果你随便什么时候来，我就不知道在什么时候该准备好我的心情。”
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you... "
 
最终小王子驯养了狐狸，但小王子还是离开了狐狸。
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near.
“那你还是什么都没得到吧……”小王子说。
"Then it has done you no good at all？" said the little prince.
“不，”狐狸说，“我还有麦田的颜色……”
"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields."
 
“再去看看那些玫瑰花吧。你一定会明白，你的那朵是世界上独一无二的玫瑰。你回来和我告别时，我再赠送给你一个秘密。”
"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."
 
“你们很美，但你们是空虚的。”小王子仍然在对她们说，“没有人能为你们去死。当然咯，我的那朵玫瑰花，一个普通的过路人以为她和你们一样。可是，她单独一朵就比你们全体更重要，因为她是我浇灌的。因为她是我放在花罩中的。因为她是我用屏风保护起来的。因为她身上的毛虫（除了留下两三只为了变蝴蝶而外）是我除灭的。因为我倾听过她的怨艾和自诩，甚至有时我聆听着她的沉默。因为她是我的玫瑰。”
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you-- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
“再见。”狐狸说。“喏，这就是我的秘密。很简单：只有用心才能看得清。实质性的东西，用眼睛是看不见的。”
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
 
“正因为你为你的玫瑰花费了时间，这才使你的玫瑰变得如此重要。”
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
 
“人们已经忘记了这个道理，"狐狸说，"可是，你不应该忘记它。你现在要对你驯服过的一切负责到底。你要对你的玫瑰负责...”
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."