• − the little prince and the narrator talk about sunsets

Oh, 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. (過去相當長的時間裡，你唯一的樂趣就是觀賞那夕陽西下的溫柔晚景)

I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth day, when you said to me:

"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now."

"But we must wait," I said.

"Wait? For what?"

"For the sunset. We must wait until it is time."

At first you seemed to be very much surprised. And then you laughed to yourself.

You said to me:

"I am always thinking that I am at home!"

Just so. Everybody knows that when it is noon in the United States the sun is setting over France. (确實，衆所周知，在美國是正午時分，在法國，正夕陽西下)

If you could fly to France in one minute, you could go straight into the sunset, right from noon. Unfortunately, France is too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. (而在你那樣的小行星上，你隻要把你的椅子挪動幾步就行了)You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like... (這樣，你便随時可以看到你想看的夕陽餘晖...)

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty−four times!"

And a little later you added:

"You know−− one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."

"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty−four sunsets?"

But the little prince made no reply.(每次輪到我提問時，小王子要麼沉默不語，要麼答非所問Ծ‸Ծ)