《小王子》：一个讲给成人的童话故事！含双语文本(9)

"Let the tigers come with their claws!"
就这样，她带着点多疑的虚荣心，很快就把他折磨得够呛。比如说，有一天说起她的四根刺，她对小王子说：
“那些老虎，让它们张着爪子来好了！”
"There are no tigers on my planet," the little prince objected. "And, anyway, tigers do not eat weeds."
“我的星球上没有老虎，”小王子顶了她一句，“再说，老虎也不吃草呀。”
"I am not a weed," the flower replied, sweetly.
“我不是草，”花儿柔声答道。
"Please excuse me..."
“对不起……”
"I am not at all afraid of tigers," she went on, "but I have a horror of drafts. I suppose you wouldn"t have a screen for me?"
“我不怕老虎，可我怕风。您没有风障吗？”
"A horror of drafts-- that is bad luck, for a plant," remarked the little prince, and added to himself, "This flower is a very complex creature..."
“怕风……一棵植物到了这份上，那可惨了，”小王子轻声说，“花儿可真难伺候……”
"At night I want you to put me under a glass globe. It is very cold where you live. In the place I came from--"
“晚上您要把我罩起来。您这儿很冷。又没安顿好。我来的那地方……”
But she interrupted herself at that point. She had come in the form of a seed. She could not have known anything of any other worlds. Embarassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naive untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.