银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第5章 Part 5

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第5章 Part 5  

A huge furry creature bounded through the door with his lunch tray. It was grinning like a maniac.
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was delighted. He knew that when a Dentrassi looked that pleased with itself there was something going on somewhere on the ship that he could get very angry indeed about.
Ford and Arthur stared about them.
"Well
what do you think?" said Ford.
"It's a bit squalid
isn't it?"
Ford frowned at the grubby mattress
unwashed cups and unidentifiable bits of smelly alien underwear that lay around the cramped cabin.
"Well
this is a working ship
you see
" said Ford. "These are the Dentrassi sleeping quarters."
"I thought you said they were called Vogons or something."
"Yes
" said Ford
"the Vogons run the ship
the Dentrassis are the cooks
they let us on board."
"I'm confused
" said Arthur.
"Here
have a look at this
" said Ford. He sat down on one of the mattresses and rummaged about in his satchel. Arthur prodded the mattress nervously and then sat on it himself: in fact he had very little to be nervous about
because all mattresses grown in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta are very thoroughly killed and dried before being put to service.
Ford handed the book to Arthur.
"What is it?" asked Arthur.
“过来，看看这个。”福特说。他在一张牀垫上坐下来，开始在自己的揹包中翻拣。阿瑟紧张兮兮地用手戳了戳牀垫，然后也坐了下来。其实他根本用不着这么紧张，因为所有这些牀垫在使用之前都经过了彻底的除菌消毒。
福特把书递给阿瑟。
“这是什么？”阿瑟问。