《小王子》介绍 英文.ppt

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ;Introduction;The First Chapter ;;The prince asks the pilot to draw a sheep. Not knowing how to draw a sheep, the pilot shows the prince a picture that he had previously drawn: a boa with an elephant in its stomach (a drawing which previous viewers mistook for a hat). No! No! exclaims the prince. I dont want a boa constrictor from the inside or outside. I want a sheep!“ He tries a few sheep drawings, which the prince rejects. Finally he draws a box, which he explains has the sheep inside. The prince, who can see the sheep inside the box just as well as he can see the elephant in the boa, says Thats perfect.;The little prince lives on a planet called Asteroid B612. He can see the sunset 44 times a day on his planet.He has an unique rose and falls in love withher, who returns hislove but is unableto express it due to her own pettiness. ;One day, he has some quarrel with his rose, then he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor planets.;A king A vanity man A tippler（酒鬼） A businessman A lamplighter A geographer; 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 Geographer spends all of his time making maps, but never leaves his desk to examine anywhere (even his own planet). He does not trust things he has not seen with his own eyes. He asks the prince to describe his planet. The prince describes the volcanoes and the rose. “We don’t record flowers,” says the geographer, “because they are only ephemeral（短暂的）. The prince is shocked and hurt to learn that his flower will someday be gone. The geographer then recommends that he visit the Earth.;The Seventh Planet ----- the Earth; At the anniversary（周年纪念日） da