The little prince went on with his explanation:"Your planet is so small that three strides will take you all the way around it. To be always in the sunshine, you need only walk along rather slowly. When you want to rest, you will walk― and the day will last as long as you like.""That doesn't do me much good," said the lamplighter. "The one thing I love in life is to sleep.""Then you're unlucky," said the little prince.
"Good morning. Why have you just put out your lamp""Those are the orders," replied the lamplighter. "Good morning.""What are the orders"
“这是号令。”点灯人答复道。
因而他又点着了他的路灯。
“真不交运。”点灯人说，“早上好。”
"I do not understand," said the little prince.
“那么为甚么你又把它点着了呢？”
"Yes, a month. Thirty minutes. Thirty days. Good evening."And he lighted his lamp again.
“你晓得吗，我能够奉告你一种能使你歇息的体例，你要甚么时候歇息都能够。”
小王子没有勇气承认，他之以是在分开这颗星球时感到最不舍，是因为这里每一个被祝贺的日子里，有一千四百四十次日落！
"That man," said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, "that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."He breathed a sigh of regret, and said to himself, again:"That man is the only one of them all whom I could have made my friend. But his planet is indeed too small. There is no room on it for two people..."What the little prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blest every day with 1440 sunsets!