银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第7章 Part 6

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第7章 Part 6  

"They'd have to be
" agreed Ford.
Arthur isted his head to look at Ford.
"Ford
what are you doing?" he asked in an amazed whisper.
"Oh
just trying to take an interest in the world around me
OK?" he said. "So the hours are pretty good then?" he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
"Yeah
" he said
"but now you e to mention it
most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Except ..." he thought again
which required looking at the ceiling — "except some of the shouting I quite like." He filled his lungs and bellowed
"Resistance is ..."
"Sure
yes
" interrupted Ford hurriedly
"you're good at that
I can tell. But if it's mostly lousy
" he said
slowly giving the words time to reach their mark
"then why do you do it? What is it? The girls? The leather? The machismo? Or do you just find that ing to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?"
"Er ..." said the guard
"er ... er ... I dunno. I think I just sort of ... do it really. My aunt said that spaceship guard was a good career for a young Vogon — you know
the uniform
the low-slung stun ray holster
the mindless tedium ..."
"There you are Arthur
" said Ford with the air of someone reaching the conclusion of his argument
"you think you've got problems."
Arthur rather thought he had. Apart from the unpleasant business with his home pla the Vogon guard had half-throttled him already and he didn't like the sound of being thrown into space very much.
"Try and understand his problem
" insisted Ford. "Here he is poor lad
his entire life's work is stamping around
throwing people off spaceships ..."
"And shouting
" added the guard.
"And shouting
sure
" said Ford patting the blubbery arm clamped round his neck in friendly condescension
"... and he doesn't even know why he's doing it!"
Arthur agreed this was very sad. He did this with a small feeble gesture
because he was too asphyxicated to speak.
Deep rumblings of bemusement came from the guard.
"Well. Now you put it like that I suppose ..."