The+Little+Prince++PPT汇编.pptx

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery LISTS Author introduction 《小王子》的作者安东尼·德·圣埃克苏佩里有着双重身份：飞行员与作家。这两种职业在他是相辅相成、相映生辉。写作《南方邮件》到《小王子》的十六年间，他的六部作品都以飞机为工具，从宇宙的高度，观察世界，探索人生。这些作品篇幅不长，题材新颖，主题是：人的伟大在于人的精神，精神的建立在于人的行动，人的不屈不挠的意志可以促成自身的奋发有为。在现代文学史上，圣埃克苏佩里被认为是最早关注人类状况的作家之一。 安东尼·德·圣埃克苏佩里1900年生于法国里昂，他一生喜欢冒险和自由，是利用飞机将邮件传递到高山和沙漠的先锋。二次大战期间，法国被纳粹占领，他去了美国。1944年他在一次飞行任务中失踪，成为法国文学史上最神秘的一则传奇。 除了飞行，用写作探索灵魂深处的寂寞是他的另一终生所爱。代表作品有童话《小王子》(1943)，其它作品还有小说《南方邮航》(1928)、《夜航》(1931)、散文《人的大地》(1939，英译名《风沙星辰》)、小说《空军飞行员》(1942)、《要塞》等。 CHAPTER ONE Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.  　　In the book it said: Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.  　　I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:  　　I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. 　　But they answered: Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?  　　My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:  　　The grown-ups‘ response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been