好书《小王子》介绍英文.ppt

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupery (29 June 1900—31 July 1944) was a French writer and aviator. A successful pilot before World War II Joined the French Air Force on the outbreak of war. Disappeared on a reconnaissance（侦察） flight in July 1944 He lived on a planet where he fell in love with a beautiful rose.  He had to pull up the boabobs regularly,otherwise they would spread the entire planet . “If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there...‘ But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened...” The prince leaves to see what the rest of the universe is like, and visits six other asteroids (numbered from 325 to 330) each of which is inhabited by an adult who is foolish in his own way: The King who can control the stars, but only by ordering them to do what they would do anyway. He then relates this to his human subjects; it is the citizens duty to obey, but only if the kings demands are reasonable. He orders the prince to leave as his ambassador. The Conceited Man who wants to be admired by everyone, but lives alone on his planet. He cannot hear anything that is not a compliment. The Drunkard/Tippler who drinks to forget that he is ashamed of drinking. The Businessman who is constantly busy counting the stars he thinks he owns. He wishes to use them to buy more stars. The prince then goes on to define property. The prince owns the flower and volcanoes on his planet because he cares for them and they care for him, but because one cannot maintain the stars or be of use to them, he argues, the Businessman cannot own them The Geographer who spends all of his time making maps, but never leaves his desk to examine anywhere (even his own planet), considering that is the job of an explorer. The Geographer is in any case very doubting of any explorer