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.
但他还是对本身说：“能够这小我思惟不普通。但他比起国王，比起阿谁傲慢自大的人、阿谁贩子和酒鬼，却要好些。起码他的事情另有点意义。当他点着了他的路灯时，就像他点亮了一颗星星，或是一朵花。当他燃烧了路灯时，就像是让星星或花朵睡着了似的。这差事真美好，那就是真正有效的了。”
“就是熄掉我的路灯。早晨好。”
“一点兴趣也没有，”点灯人说，“我们俩说话这段时候，一个月已经畴昔了。”
他可惜地叹了口气，并且又对本身说道：“这小我是统统人当中独一能够和我交朋友的，但是他的星球确切太小了，住不下两小我……”
“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。”
The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in the heavens, on a planet which had no people, and not one house. But he said to himself, nevertheless:"It may well be that this man is absurd. But he is not so absurd as the king, the conceited man, the businessman, and the tippler. For at least his work has some meaning. When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep. That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful."When he arrived on the planet he respectfully saluted the lamplighter.