經典科幻文學:《生命 宇宙及一切》第1章5

There to meet with a small slug, it beeped, of the genus ARth-Urp-Hil-Ipdenu.
I believe, it added, after a slight pause during which it beeped, that you had decided to call it a brainless prat.
Wowbagger grunted. He watched the majesty of creation outside his window for a moment or two.
I think I’ll take a nap, he said, and then added, what network areas are we going to be passing through in the next few hours?
The computer beeped.
Cosmovid, Thinkpix and Home Brain Box, it said, and beeped.
Any movies I haven’t seen thirty thousand times already?
No.
Uh.
There’s Angst in Space. You’ve only seen that thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen times.
Wake me for the second reel.
The computer beeped.
Sleep well, it said.
The ship fled on through the night.
Meanwhile, on Earth, it began to pour with rain and Arthur Dent sat in his cave and had one of the most truly rotten evenings of his entire life, thinking of things he could have said to the alien and swatting flies, who also had a rotten evening.
The next day he made himself a pouch out of rabbit skin because he thought it would be useful to keep things in.

“到那去見一隻小鼻涕蟲，”它嗶了一聲，“它是‘阿瑟-爾菲-唉利-意普鄧努’屬的。”
“我猜，”它嗶了一聲，停頓了一下接着說“你決定叫它‘沒大腦的屁股’。”
哇布格咕噥了兩聲。他望着窗外不時展現的、宏偉的自然景觀。
“我想我要小睡一下。”他說。又補問道：“接下來四個小時裏我們要經過那些網絡區？”
電腦嗶了一聲。
“環宇參考，思想小靈通和家用智能寶盒。”電腦說。嗶了一聲。
“有我還沒看過三萬遍的電影嗎？”
“沒有。”
“噢。”
“有個《焦灼太空》。你只看過三萬三千五百一十七次。”
“放到第二卷的時候叫醒我。”
電腦嗶了一聲。
“睡個好覺。”它說。
飛船滑進了夜空。
此時此刻，在地球上，大雨傾盆而至，阿瑟·鄧特坐在他的山洞裏，度過他一生中心情最惡劣的一個夜晚，一邊想着他可能對那個外星人說的話，一邊不停地扇着蒼蠅（那些蒼蠅自然也度過了一個心情惡劣的晚上）。
第二天，他爲自己做了個兔皮袋子，他想，用這個來裝東西應該還不錯。