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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,THE LITTLE PRINCE,1,New words,magnificent,壮丽的;伟大的,primeval,原始的,boa constrictor,大蟒蛇,masterpiece,杰作,jungle,丛林,arithmetic,算术,2,The Little Prince,first published in 1943,is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat,writer,poet and pioneering aviator,Antoine de Saint-Exupry,(19001944).,3,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.,4,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:,5,I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups,and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.But they answered:“Frighten?Why should anyone 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:,6,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.,7,He drew the first picture is _?,8,THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.,9,
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