英中英41_No one is ever satisfied where he is_林_乐明无念

[ Chapter 22 ] - the little prince encounters arailway switchman"Good morning," said the little prince."Good morning," said the railway switchman."What do you do here?" the little prince asked."I sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand," said theswitchman. "I send off the trains that carry them; now to the right, nowto the left."And a brilliantly lighted express train shook the switchman's cabin as itrushed by with a roar like thunder."They are in a great hurry," said the little prince. "Whatare they looking for?""Not even the locomotive engineer knows that," said theswitchman.And a second brilliantly lighted express thundered by, in the opposite direction."Are they coming back already?" demanded the little prince."These are not the same ones," said the switchman. "It isan exchange.""Were they not satisfied where they were?" asked the littleprince."No one is ever satisfied where he is," said the switchman.And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express."Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the littleprince."They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "Theyare asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only thechildren are flattening their noses against the windowpanes.""Only the children know what they are looking for," said thelittle prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes veryimportant to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry...""Theyare lucky," the switchman said.