这真是非常奇异。对你们这些也喜好小王子的人来讲，就像我一样，不管在宇宙的甚么处所，在某处我们不晓得的处所，有一只我们永久也见不到的绵羊，吃掉了，或者没有吃掉一朵玫瑰，统统都会截然分歧。
Chapter 27
It was then that the fox appeared.
And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!
But at another time I say to myself: "At some moment or other one is absent-minded, and that is enough! On some one evening he forgot the glass globe, or the sheep got out, without making any noise, in the night..." And then the little bells are changed to tears...
And now six years have already gone by...
I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive. I was sad, but I told them: "I am tired."Now my sorrow is comforted a little. That is to say― not entirely. But I know that he did go back to his planet, because I did not find his body at daybreak. It was not such a heavy body... and at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells...
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Here, then, is a great mystery. For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has― yes or no― eaten a rose...
望着天空，问问你们本身：绵羊究竟是吃了还是没有吃掉花？那么你们就会发明所看到的统统都变了样……任何一个大人将永久不会明白这个题目竟如此首要！
我还从未讲过这个故事。火伴们得知我返航，都为我活着返来而欢畅。我很哀痛。但是，我奉告他们：“我只是有点累。”