英语学习小王子英文小说连载 精读一本原版英文小说，可以快速提升你的英文水平。只要坚持，每天把一个章节的单词、句子、语法搞明白了，长此以往我们的英文水平一定能可以像美国人那样。但最关键的是，一定要坚持哦！接下来的日子里言老师要和大家一起阅读的英文小说是——《小王子》，今天先让我们看看第一章吧！ 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 disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves， and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.So then I chose another profession， and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world； and it is true that geography has been very useful t