" I always want to rest, " said the lamplighter.

“我老是想休息。”点灯人说。

" That doesn't do me much good, " said the lamplighter.

“这办法帮不了我多打忙。”点灯人说。

" The orders have not been changed, " said the lamplighter.

“命令没有改，”点灯的人说。

" I am unlucky, " said the lamplighter. " Good morning." And he put out his lamp.

“我是不幸，”点灯人说。“早上好。”于是他又熄灭了路灯。

If a lamplighter could see the world today, he would think the prosperity all around him was unimaginable.

如果一个点灯人能看到今天的世界，他会觉得周围的繁荣是不可想像的。

" Those are the orders, " replied the lamplighter.

“那些是命令。”点灯的人回答道。

As the little prince watched him, he felt that he loved this lamplighter who was so faithful to his orders.

当小王子瞅着他时，他觉得他喜欢这个如此忠守命令的点灯人。

There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter.

它上面的空间只够一盏街灯和一个点灯的人。

" Those are the orders, " replied the lamplighter. " Good morning."

“那些是命令，”点灯的回答道。“早上好。”

" There is nothing to understand, " said the lamplighter. " Orders are orders. Good morning."

“没什么要明白的，”点灯的回答说。“命令就是命令。早上好。”

But the gas street lamps in Brownsville were still lit every night by a lamplighter.

但布朗斯维尔的煤气路灯每晚仍然由点灯人点亮。

I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the lamplighters.

在给你们讲点灯人的时候，我就不是完全诚实的。

" I am unlucky, " said the lamplighter. " Good morning."

“真不走运。”点灯人说。“早上好。”

First would come the turn of the lamplighters of New Zealand and Australia.

首先出现的是新西兰和澳大利亚的点灯人。

" It is not funny at all! " said the lamplighter. " While we have been talking together a month has gone by."

“一点趣味也没有！”点灯的说，“我们俩在一块说话时一个月已经过去了。”

" There is nothing to understand, " said the lamplighter. " Orders are orders. Good morning." And he put out his lamp.

“没什么要明白的。命令就是命令。”点灯的回答说。“早上好。”于是他又熄灭了路灯。

" That doesn't do me much good, " said the lamplighter. " The one thing I love in life is to sleep."

“这办法帮不了我多打忙，生活中我喜欢的就是睡觉。”点灯人说。

It was necessary to maintain, over the whole of the six continents, a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps.

在全部的六个大洲上，为了点路灯，需要维持一支四十六万二千五百一十一个点灯人的真正军队。

Next, the lamplighters of China and Siberia would enter for their steps in the dance, and then they too would be waved back into the wings.

于是就轮到中国和西伯利亚的点灯人走上舞台。随后，他们也藏到幕布后面去了。

Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter.

我们今天从事的许多工作在几百年前的人看来都是毫无意义的浪费时间，但没有人回头看过去，渴望成为一个点灯人。