經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第3章 Part 3

Running up the lane, Arthur had nearly reached his house. He didn't notice how cold it had suddenly become, he didn't notice the wind, he didn't notice the sudden irrational squall of rain. He didn't notice anything but the caterpillar bulldozers crawling over the rubble that had been his home.
"You barbarians!" he yelled. "I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled ... until ... until ... until you've had enough."
Ford was running after him very fast. Very very fast.
"And then I'll do it again!" yelled Arthur. "And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!"
Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the clouds. Impossibly huge yellow somethings.
"And I will carry on jumping on them," yelled Arthur, still running, "until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do, and then ..."
Arthur tripped, and fell headlong, rolled and landed flat on his back. At last he noticed that something was going on. His finger shot upwards."What the hell's that?" he shrieked.

沿着鄉間小道跑了一陣，阿瑟幾乎快到自己的房子了。他沒有注意到天氣突然之間變得很冷，他沒有注意到刺骨的風，也沒有注意到突然之間毫無理由砸下來的暴風雨。他沒有注意到任何事，除了那些緩緩碾過一片瓦礫的履帶推土機。這片瓦礫剛纔還是他的房子。
“你們這些野蠻人！”他高喊着，“我要起訴委員會，討回每一個子兒！我要絞死你們，把你們五馬分屍！狠狠地鞭打你們！下油鍋……直到……直到……直到把你們收拾個夠。”
福特跟在他後面飛快地跑過來，非常非常快。
“然後我還要再來上一次！”阿瑟叫道，“等我收拾完了，還要把你們的碎片都集中起來，再狠狠地踩上幾腳！”
阿瑟並沒有注意到，他所咒罵的這些人正從推土機裏鑽出來：他也沒有注意到普洛塞先生正仰頭驚恐地看着天上。普洛塞先生關注的是那些呼嘯着劃過雲層的巨大的黃色物體——它們大得簡直不可思議。
“是的，我會再狠狠地踩上幾腳，”阿瑟咆哮着，仍舊在跑，“直到我腳上起了水泡，或者想到什麼更讓我不愉快的事兒，然後……”
正說着，他腳下絆了一跤、頭衝前撲下去，又滾了一圈，最後背朝下仰天摔倒在地。這時他才終於注意到了天上出現的物體。用手指指着天上，他尖叫起來：“這是什麼該死的玩意兒？”