/flɑːk/ nabsurd adjective/əbˈsɜːd/US pronunciation symbol/-ˈsɝːd/ adjstupid or unreasonable; silly in a humorous wayWhat an absurd thing to say!Don't be so absurd! Of course I want you to come.It's an absurd situation - neither of them will talk to the other.
Read more…As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little prince's planet, his departure from it, his journey. The information would come very slowly, as itmight chance to fall from his thoughts. It was in this way that I heard,on the
Read more…I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house!
But that did not really surprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great planets--such as
Read more…/fɑːnd/ adj
/-t ̬ɪd/ adjOh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life . . . For a long time
you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking
at the sunset. I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth
d
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 b
Read more… pronunciation symbol"">/ˈmɑː.dɪst/ adjSo I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic nor any passengers, Iset my
Read more…French aviator and writer, real life hero who looked at adventure and danger with poet's eyes - sometimes from the viewpoint of a child. Saint-Exupéry's most famous work is The Little Prince (1943), which he also illustrated. It has become one of the
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It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me.
The first time
/-ˈpɑːr.tʃɚ/ n [plural forms."">C or noun with no plural form. Cannot be used with 'a', 'an', or 'one'."">U]/-tə.rɔɪd/ n [plural forms."">C]