20-2 成為那盞光Just be the Light~開始介紹小王子的那朵玫瑰,小Dora和Chloe討論花的需要是什麼(最後還用道具幫自己拍拍手XD)
AC Breeze 增值英文軟實力:留學、工作、旅行Play Episode
內容描述
世界上最有名的玫瑰花就是小王子的那朵最珍視的玫瑰花,結果小Dora居然說到Chloe悲摧的種花技巧…XDDD
原文如下:
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 the grass, and by night they would have
faded peacefully away. But one day, from a seed blown from no one knew where, a new flower had come up; and the little prince had
watched very closely over this small sprout which was not like any other small sprouts on his planet. It might, you see, have been a new kind
of baobab.
The shrub soon stopped growing, and began to get ready to produce a flower. The little prince, who was present at the first appearance of a
huge bud, felt at once that some sort of miraculous apparition must emerge from it. But the flower was not satisfied to complete the
preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her green chamber. She chose her colors with the greatest care. She dressed herself slowly. She
adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies. It was only in the full radiance of
her beauty that she wished to appear. Oh, yes! She was a coquettish creature! And her mysterious adornment lasted for days and days.
Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.
And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said:
"Ah! I am scarcely awake. I beg that you will excuse me. My petals are still all disarranged . . ."
But the little prince could not restrain his admiration:
"Oh! How beautiful you are!"
"Am I not?" the flower responded, sweetly. "And I was born at the same moment as the sun . . ."
The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest--but how moving--and exciting--she was!
"I think it is time for breakfast," she added an instant later. "If you would have the kindness to think of my needs--"