每天一分鐘左右聽(tīng)寫(xiě)，帶你走進(jìn)小王子的世界。
Hints:
boa constrictor
fumble
fair-to-middling
grown-ups
It is for that purpose, again, that I have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six. I shall certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not at all sure of success. One drawing goes along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject. I make some errors, too, in the littl e prince's height: in one place he is too tall and in another too short. And I feel some doubts about the color of his costume. So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair-to-middling. In certain more important details I shall make mistakes, also. But that is something that will not be my fault. My friend never explained anything to me. He thought, perhaps, that I was like himself. But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through t he walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.
也正是為了這個(gè)緣 故，我買了一盒顏料和一些鉛筆。象我這樣年紀(jì)的人，而且除了六歲時(shí)畫(huà)過(guò)閉著 肚皮的和開(kāi)著肚皮的巨蟒外，別的什么也沒(méi)有嘗試過(guò)，現(xiàn)在，重新再來(lái)畫(huà)畫(huà)，真費(fèi)勁??！當(dāng)然，我一定要把這些畫(huà)盡量地畫(huà)得逼真，但我自己也沒(méi)有把握。一張畫(huà)得還可以，另一張就不象了。還有身材大小，我畫(huà)得有點(diǎn)不準(zhǔn)確。在這個(gè)地方 小王子畫(huà)得太大了些，另一個(gè)地方又畫(huà)得太小了些。對(duì)他衣服的顏色我也拿不準(zhǔn)。 于是我就摸索著這么試試那么改改，畫(huà)個(gè)大概齊。 我很可能在某些重要的細(xì)節(jié)上畫(huà)錯(cuò)了。這就得請(qǐng)大家原諒我了。因?yàn)槲业倪@個(gè)朋友，從來(lái)也不加說(shuō)明解釋。他認(rèn)為我同他一樣?？墒?，很遺憾，我卻不能透過(guò)盒子看見(jiàn)小羊。我大概有點(diǎn)和大人們差不多。我一定是變老了。