經典科幻文學:《基本上無害 Mostly Harmless》第23章4

‘Chaos!’ said Arthur. ‘Complete chaos! Random keeps on screaming at Trillian, or Tricia or whoever it is, that she abandoned her and then demanding to go to a good night club. Tricia’s broken down in tears and says she’s never even met Random let alone given birth to her. Then she suddenly started howling about someone called Rupert and said that he had lost his mind or something. I didn’t quite follow that bit, to be honest. Then Random started throwing stuff and they’ve cut to a commercial break while they try and sort it all out. Oh! They’ve just cut back to the studio! Shut up and watch.’

“混亂！”阿瑟說，“一片混亂！蘭登不停地朝崔莉恩嚷嚷，或者是說崔茜卡，或者那個長的一摸一樣的人。她埋怨她把自己拋棄了，還要求找家上檔次的電子俱樂部。崔茜卡哭的稀里嘩啦，說自己壓根沒見過蘭登，更別提生她了。然後她突然也嚎起來，是的是個叫魯伯特的什麼傢伙，說他失憶症還是什麼的。說實話那部分我沒怎麼聽明白。然後蘭登就開始丟東西，所以他們就插廣告，好爭取點時間把這事情搞搞清楚。哦！他們又切回演播室了！閉上嘴好好看。”

A rather shaken anchorman appeared on the screen and apologised to viewers for the disruption of the previous item. He said he didn’t have any very clear news to report, only that the mysterious girl, who called herself Random Frequent Flyer Dent had left the studio to, er, rest. Tricia McMillan would be, he hoped, back tomorrow. Meanwhile, fresh reports of UFO activity were coming in…

一個很有些混亂的播音員出現在屏幕上，爲先前的節目中斷向觀衆們道歉。他說自己並沒有什麼太清楚的故事情節，只能告訴大家那個神祕的女孩——就是管自己叫蘭登.時常.飛行.鄧特的那位——剛剛離開演播室去，呃，休息。而崔茜卡.麥克米倫，他希望，明天能回到大家身邊。與此同時，眼下又有了關於UFO的新消息……

Ford leaped up off the bed, grabbed the nearest phone and jabbed at a number.

福特從牀上一躍而起，抓住離自己最近的電話撥了個號。

‘Concierge? You want to own the hotel? It’s yours if you can find out for me in five minutes which clubs Tricia McMillan belongs to. Just charge the whole thing to this room.’

“門房嗎？想不想擁有這家酒店？只要你能在五分鐘之內給我查出來崔茜卡.麥克米倫是哪傢俱樂部的會員，酒店就歸你了。只管把費用算在賬上。”