The Little Prince II Flashcards
balderdash
I don’t amuse myself with balderdash. (废话）
rheumatism
I was disturbed by an attack of rheumatism. （风湿病）
loaf
I don’t get enough exercise. I have no time for loafing. (虚度光阴，游手好闲）
retort
“To whom do they belong?” the businessman retorted, peevishly.（反驳）
poetic
“It is entertaining,” thought the little prince. “It is rather poetic. But it is of no great consequence.” （有诗意）
scorn
that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman.（蔑视）
rekindle
rekindle hope
rekindle her love
rekindle the light
pant
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）
cast
And he cast a look around him at the planet of the geographer.
cast your vote
intoxicate
Because intoxicated men see double. (喝醉的）
recital
The recitals of explorers are put down first in pencil. （背诵）
ephemeral
“We do not record them,” said the geographer, “because they are ephemeral.”(短暂的）
eternal
We write of eternal things.
Negro
One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them),
veritable
- a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps
- veritable hell
islet
All humanity could be piled up on a small Pacific islet.
fancy
They fancy themselves as important as the baobabs.(想象）
granite
“You move me to pity – you are so weak on this Earth made of granite,” the snake said.（花岗岩）
of no account
It was a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all.
caravan
The flower had once seen a caravan passing.
save
But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened like needles. (除了）
abode
And all roads lead to the abodes of men. (住处）
humble
Let me take you to my humble abode.
He is a man of humble birth.
perplex
The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious（困惑）
burrow
the fox’s burrow
yonder
He has walked to yonder hill.
Yonder stands an oak. (那边）
locomotive engineer
quench
This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst.
cross-examine
I did not understand this answer, but I said nothing. I knew very well that it was impossible to cross-examine him.
ridge
I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us in the moonlight.
enchantment
But it cast an enchantment over that house. My home was hiding a secret in the depths of its heart.
pulley
weathervane
And the pulley moaned, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.
hoist
I hoisted the bucket slowly to the edge of the well and set it there – happy, tired as I was, over my achievement.
grief
What brought me, then, this sense of grief? (悲伤）
Good grief （天那）
hesitancy
The little prince flushed again. And I added, with some hesitancy: “Perhaps it was because of the anniversary?”
weep
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed（哭泣）
asunder
I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn asunder.
temples
I had moistened his temples, and had given him some water to drink.
gravely
He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck.
