I soon learned to know this flower better. On the little prince's planet the flowers had always been very simple. They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all;they were a trouble to nobody. One morning they would appear in thegrass,
Read more…The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man.
"Ah! Ah! I am about to receive a visit from an admirer!" he exclaimed from afar, when he first saw the little prince coming.
For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
"Good morning," said the
Read more…He found himself in the neighborhood of the asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. He began, therefore, by visiting them, in order to add to his knowledge.
The first of them was inhabited by a king. Clad in royal purple and ermine, he was seated
Read more…The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection.
"What are you doing there?" he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottl
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pronunciation symbol"">/-l ̩.ɚ/, /-lɚ/ n [C] "">with friends and family. Used more in speech."">informalbalderdash noun exclamation/ˈbɔːl.də.dæʃ/US pronunciation symbol/ˈbɑːl.dɚ-/ n [U] excl old-fashionednonsense; something that is stupid or not true"Balderdash!" he spluttered indignantly.giddy adjective/ˈgɪd.i/ adjdizzyaccurate adjective/ˈæk.jʊ.rət/ a
Read more…The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in t
Read more…/-t ̬ɪd/ adj someone or something."">disapprovingI believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order. He carefullycleaned out his active volcanoes. He possessed two active volcanoes; andthey we
Read more…/-t ̬ɚ/ n [plural forms."">C or noun with no plural form. Cannot be used with 'a', 'an', or 'one'."">U]/flɑːk/ nabsurd adjective/əbˈsɜːd/US pronunciation symbol/-ˈsɝːd/ adjstupid or unreasonable; silly in a humorous wayWhat an absurd thing to say!Don't be so absurd! Of course I want you to come.It's an absurd situation - neither of them will talk to the other.
Read more…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 itmight chance to fall from his thoughts. It was in this way that I heard,on the
Read more…I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house!
But that did not really surprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great planets--such as
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/-t ̬ɪd/ adjOh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life . . . For a long time
you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking
at the sunset. I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth
d
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the
act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
In the b
Read more… pronunciation symbol"">/ˈmɑː.dɪst/ adjSo I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic nor any passengers, Iset my
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