小王子所知道的山，只是那三座到他膝蓋那麼高的火山，他把那座死火山當做腳凳。
他自言自語說：「從這樣高的山，我可以把整個星球一覽無遺，並且看見所有的人...」
可是當他爬上那座山上時，他沒看到什麼，只看到因經年累月而磨光了的峻岩峭壁。
「早安！」他有禮貌的說。
「早安...早安...早安」回聲回答。
「你是誰啊？」小王子問。
「你是誰啊...你是誰啊...你是誰啊...」回聲回答。
「做我的朋友吧，我很孤單。」他說。
「我很孤單...很孤單...很孤單...」回聲回答。
小王子想著：「多麼奇怪的星球啊！這麼乾燥、尖銳、嚴峻跟艱澀。而且人們缺乏想像力，只會一再反覆別人告訴他們的話...在我的星球上有一朵花，她總是先開口說話...」
After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The only mountains he had ever known were the three volcanoes, which came up to his knees. And he used the extinct volcano as a footstool. "From a mountain as high as this one," he said to himself, "I shall be able to see the whole planet at one glance, and all the people . . ."
But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened like needles.
"Good morning," he said courteously.
"Good morning--Good morning--Good morning," answered the echo.
"Who are you?" said the little prince.
"Who are you--Who are you--Who are you?" answered the echo.
"Be my friends. I am all alone," he said.
"I am all alone--all alone--all alone," answered the echo.
"What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak . . ."
註：《小王子》是法國童話，法文原書名為Le Petit Prince，作者是聖艾修伯里，1943年在紐約出版，被譯成超過 180種語言，銷售量超過8千萬冊，還有拍成電影和動畫片、改編成話劇和音樂劇演出。
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