經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第13章 Part2

"Funny," he intoned funerally, "how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does."
He heaved himself through the door and left Ford and Arthur staring at each other and shrugging their shoulders. From inside they heard Marvin's voice again.
"I suppose you want to see the aliens now," he said. "Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?"
"Yeah, just show them in would you Marvin?" came another voice.
Arthur looked at Ford and was astonished to see him laughing.
"What's ...?"
"Shhh," said Ford, "come in."
He stepped through into the bridge.
Arthur followed him in nervously and was astonished to see a man lolling back in a chair with his feet on a control console picking the teeth in his right-hand head with his left hand. The right-hand head seemed to be thoroughly preoccupied with this task, but the left-hand one was grinning a broad, relaxed, nonchalant grin. The number of things that Arthur couldn't believe he was seeing was fairly large. His jaw flapped about at a loose end for a while.
The peculiar man waved a lazy wave at Ford and with an appalling affectation of nonchalance said, "Ford, hi, how are you? Glad you could drop in."

“可笑啊。”他悲哀地感嘆道，“當你認爲生活已經糟糕得不可能再糟糕了的時候，它居然真的更糟糕了。”
說着他穿過門，留下福特和阿瑟在門外面面相覷，無奈地聳着肩膀。這時門內又傳來馬文的聲音。
“我想你們現在可以見到那兩個陌生人了。”他說，“你們是希望我回到角落裏坐着呢，還是就這麼在這裏站着？”
“好的，把他們帶進來，好嗎，馬文？”另一個聲音說道。
阿瑟看着福特，驚訝地發現他在笑。
“怎麼……”
“噓，”福特說，“進去吧。”
他走進控制橋。
阿瑟緊張地跟在他後面，一進門就驚訝地看見一個男人懶洋洋地靠在座位裏，腳放在控制檯上，正在用左手剔右邊那個腦袋的牙。右邊這張臉幾乎快被這項工作遮完了，但左邊那張臉上清晰地掛着一個放鬆而冷漠的微笑。房間裏讓阿瑟難以置信的東西的數目相當大，好長—陣子他都合不攏下巴。
這個奇特的人懶懶地望了福特一眼，然後用一種顯得有些冷漠的聲音說：“福特，嘿，你還好嗎？很高興你能來這兒。”