經典科幻文學:《宇宙盡頭的餐館》第13章

Chapter 13
Ford Prefect bounded up to the bridge of the Heart of Gold.
“Trillian! Arthur!” he shouted, “it’s working! The ship’s reactivated!”
Trillian and Arthur were asleep on the floor.
“Come on you guys, we’re going off, we’re off,” he said kicking them awake.
“Hi there guys!” twittered the computer, “it’s really great to be back with you again, I can tell you, and I just want to say that…”
“Shut up,” said Ford, “tell us where the hell we are.”
“Frogstar World B, and man it’s a dump,” said Zaphod running on to the bridge, “hi, guys, you must be so amazingly glad to see me you don’t even find words to tell me what a cool frood I am.”
“What a what?” said Arthur blearily, picking himself up from the floor and not taking any of this in.
“I know how you feel,” said Zaphod, “I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. Hey it’s good to see you Trillian, Ford, Monkeyman. Hey, er, computer…?”
“Hi there, Mr. Beeblebrox sir, sure is a great honor to…”
“Shut up and get us out of here, fast fast fast.”
“Sure thing, fella, where do you want to go?”
“Anywhere, doesn’t matter,” shouted Zaphod, “yes it does!” he said again, “we want to go to the nearest place to eat!”
“Sure thing,” said the computer happily and a massive explosion rocket the bridge.
When Zarniwoop entered a minute or so later with a black eye, he regarded the four wisps of smoke with interest.

第十三章
福特長官跳上黃金之心號的艦橋。
“摧莉恩！阿瑟！”他嚷道，“它開始工作了！飛船恢復運行了！”
崔莉恩和阿瑟躺在地板上睡着了。
“來吧，夥計們，我們準備走了，我們準備離開！”他一邊說，一邊把兩人踹醒。
“嘿，夥計們！”電腦唧唧喳喳興奮地說，“再次回到你們身邊真是太好了。告訴你們吧，我只想說……”
“閉嘴，”福特說，“你只需要告訴我們這是什麼鬼地方？”
“蛙星系B世界，一個徹頭徹尾的垃圾場。”贊福德出現在艦橋上，道，“嗨，夥計們，你們見到我之後一定大喜過望－－以至於找不出詞彙來告訴我，我是一個多麼醅的傢伙吧！”
“一個什麼？”阿瑟睡眼惺鬆地說，他正從地板上爬起來，絲毫也不明白他們在說些什麼。
“我知道你們的感受。”贊福德說，“我是如此偉大，甚至連我自己形容起來都會舌頭打結。嘿，看見你們真高興，崔莉恩、福特、猴子。嘿，嗯，還有你，電腦。”
“嗨，畢博布魯克斯先生，先生，我非常榮幸……”
“閉嘴，快帶我們離開這裏。越快越好。”
“沒問題，夥計們，你們想去哪兒？”
“任何地方都行，沒關係的。”贊福德叫道：“不，有關係！”他又改口道，“我們想去最近的能夠吃到東西的地方！”
“沒問題！”電腦愉快地說，然後，一次強烈的爆炸震動了艦橋。
大約一分鐘後，扎尼烏普黑着一隻眼眶走進來。他饒有興趣地觀察着四股煙霧。