The Little Prince II

Question 1

balderdash

Answer 1

I don’t amuse myself with balderdash. (废话）

Question 2

rheumatism

Answer 2

I was disturbed by an attack of rheumatism. （风湿病）

Question 3

loaf

Answer 3

I don’t get enough exercise. I have no time for loafing. (虚度光阴，游手好闲）

Question 4

retort

Answer 4

“To whom do they belong?” the businessman retorted, peevishly.（反驳）

Question 5

poetic

Answer 5

“It is entertaining,” thought the little prince. “It is rather poetic. But it is of no great consequence.” （有诗意）

Question 6

scorn

Answer 6

that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman.（蔑视）

Question 7

rekindle

Answer 7

rekindle hope

rekindle her love

rekindle the light

Question 8

pant

Answer 8

The little prince sat down on the table and panted a little. He had already traveled so much and so far! (气喘吁吁）

Question 9

cast

Answer 9

And he cast a look around him at the planet of the geographer.

cast your vote

Question 10

intoxicate

Answer 10

Because intoxicated men see double. (喝醉的）

Question 11

recital

Answer 11

The recitals of explorers are put down first in pencil. （背诵）

Question 12

ephemeral

Answer 12

“We do not record them,” said the geographer, “because they are ephemeral.”(短暂的）

Question 13

eternal

Answer 13

We write of eternal things.

Question 14

Negro

Answer 14

One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them),

Question 15

veritable

Answer 15

• a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps
• veritable hell

Question 16

islet

Answer 16

All humanity could be piled up on a small Pacific islet.

Question 17

fancy

Answer 17

They fancy themselves as important as the baobabs.(想象）

Question 18

granite

Answer 18

“You move me to pity – you are so weak on this Earth made of granite,” the snake said.（花岗岩）

Question 19

of no account

Answer 19

It was a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all.

Question 20

caravan

Answer 20

The flower had once seen a caravan passing.

Question 21

save

Answer 21

But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened like needles. (除了）

Question 22

abode

Answer 22

And all roads lead to the abodes of men. (住处）

Question 23

humble

Answer 23

Let me take you to my humble abode.
He is a man of humble birth.

Question 24

perplex

Answer 24

The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious（困惑）

Question 25

burrow

Answer 25

the fox’s burrow

Question 26

yonder

Answer 26

He has walked to yonder hill.

Yonder stands an oak. (那边）

Question 27

locomotive engineer

Question 28

quench

Answer 28

This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst.

Question 29

cross-examine

Answer 29

I did not understand this answer, but I said nothing. I knew very well that it was impossible to cross-examine him.

Question 30

ridge

Answer 30

I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us in the moonlight.

Question 31

enchantment

Answer 31

But it cast an enchantment over that house. My home was hiding a secret in the depths of its heart.

Question 32

pulley

Answer 32

Question 33

weathervane

Answer 33

And the pulley moaned, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.

Question 34

hoist

Answer 34

I hoisted the bucket slowly to the edge of the well and set it there – happy, tired as I was, over my achievement.

Question 35

grief

Answer 35

What brought me, then, this sense of grief? (悲伤）

Good grief （天那）

Question 36

hesitancy

Answer 36

The little prince flushed again. And I added, with some hesitancy: “Perhaps it was because of the anniversary?”

Question 37

weep

Answer 37

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed（哭泣）

Question 38

asunder

Answer 38

I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn asunder.

Question 39

temples

Answer 39

I had moistened his temples, and had given him some water to drink.

Question 40

gravely

Answer 40

He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck.