어린 왕자 원서 필사하기 - 8

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

 

Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death,

 

I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen.

 

But then I remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar, and I told the little chap (a little crossly, too) that I did not know how to draw.

 

He answered me:

 

"That doesn't matter. Draw me a sheep. "

 

But I had never drawn a sheep.

 

So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often.

 

It was that of the boa constrictor from the outside.

 

And I was astounded to hear the little fellow greet it with.

 

"No, no, no! I do not want an elephant inside a boa constrictor.

 

A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very cumbersome.

 

Where I live, everything is very small.

 

What I need is a sheep.

 

Draw me a sheep.

 

So then I made a drawing.

 

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Absurd : 말도 안되는

 

chap : 친구(남자)

 

astound : 경악시키다. 충격을 주다.

be astounded : 놀래다. 

 

greet : 반응을 보이다.

 

cumbersome : 복잡한, 무거운