His look was very serious, like some one lost far away.
他的眼神很严肃，望着遥远的地方。
"I have your sheep. And I have the sheep's box. And I have the muzzle..."
“我有你画的羊，羊的箱子和羊的嘴套子…”
And he gave me a sad smile.
他带着忧伤的神情微笑了。
I waited a long time. I could see that he was reviving little by little.
我等了很长时间，才觉得他身子渐渐暖和起来。
"Dear little man," I said to him, "you are afraid..."
“小家伙，你受惊了…”
He was afraid, there was no doubt about that. But he laughed lightly.
他害怕了，这是无疑的！他却温柔地笑着说：
"I shall be much more afraid this evening..."
“今天晚上，我会怕得更厉害…”
Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert.
我再度意识到要发生一件不可弥补的事。我觉得我的心一下子就凉了。这时我才明白：一想到再也不能听到这笑声，我就不能忍受。这笑声对我来说，就好象是沙漠中的甘泉一样。
"Little man," I said, "I want to hear you laugh again."
“小家伙，我还想听你笑…”
But he said to me:
但他对我说：
"Tonight, it will be a year... my star, then, can be found right above the place where I came to the Earth, a year ago..."
“到今天夜里，正好是一年了。我的星球将正好处于我去年降落的那个地方的上空…”
"Little man," I said, "tell me that it is only a bad dream-- this affair of the snake, and the meeting-place, and the star..."
“小家伙，这蛇的事，约会的事，还有星星，这全是一场噩梦吧？”
But he did not answer my plea. He said to me, instead: "The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen..."
但他并不回答我的问题。他对我说： “重要的事，是看不见的…”
"Yes, I know..."
“当然…”
