我很惊奇，俄然明白了戈壁的奥秘之光是甚么。当我还是一个小孩子的时候，我住在一座陈腐的屋子里，传闻这个屋子里埋藏着一个宝贝。当然，向来没有任何人能发明这个宝贝，能够，乃至也没有人去寻觅过。但是，这个宝贝使全部屋子增加了某种奥秘。我家的屋子在它的心灵深处埋没着一个奥妙……我对小王子说道：“是的，不管是屋子、星星或是戈壁，因为某种奥秘使它们更斑斓！”
“你也渴了，对吗？”我问他。
他不睬解我的思路，他说：
我答复道：“是的。”然后我就不再多说甚么，只是冷静地看着月光下戈壁的起伏的波浪。
他却不答复我的题目，只是对我说：“水对心也是有好处的……”
“我真欢畅，你和我的狐狸的观点一样。”小王子说。
"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..."I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands. When I was a little boy I lived in an old house, and legend told us that a treasure was buried there. To be sure, no one had ever known how to find it; perhaps no one had ever even looked for it. But it cast an enchantment over that house. My home was hiding a secret in the depths of its heart...
我无可何如：在茫茫的大戈壁上自觉地去找水井，真是一件荒唐事。但是我们还是解缆了。
他平静地看着我，明白了我的设法：“我也渴了……我们去找一口井吧……”
“因为我就要渴死了。”
“使戈壁变得斑斓的，就是在某个角落里，藏着一口井……”
确切如此。我一向很喜好戈壁，坐在一个沙丘上，甚么也看不见、听不见。但是，却有一种说不出的东西在冷静地放着光……
It was now the eighth day since I had had my accident in the desert, and I had listened to the story of the merchant as I was drinking the last drop of my water supply.
“他毫不成能认识到如许的伤害。”我本身考虑着，“他不晓得饥渴。只要有点阳光，他就满足了……”
Chapter 24
“为甚么不？”
"Because I am about to die of thirst..."He did not follow my reasoning, and he answered me:"It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend...""He has no way of guessing the danger," I said to myself. "He has never been either hungry or thirsty. A little sunshine is all he needs..."But he looked at me steadily, and replied to my thought:"I am thirsty, too. Let us look for a well..."I made a gesture of weariness. It is absurd to look for a well, at random, in the immensity of the desert. But nevertheless we started walking.