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 3

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第5章 Part 3  

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious
as in It's a nice day
or You're very tall
or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well
are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips
he thought
their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips
he thought
their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all
but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
"Yes
" he agreed with Arthur
"no light." He helped Arthur to some peanuts. "How do you feel?" he asked.
"If I asked you where the hell we were
" said Arthur weakly
"would I regret it?"
Ford stood up. "We're safe
" he said.
"Oh good
" said Arthur.
"We're in a small galley cabin
" said Ford
"in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet."
"Ah
" said Arthur
"this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."
Ford struck another match to help him search for a light switch. Monstrous shadows leaped and loomed again. Arthur struggled to his feet and hugged himself apprehensively. Hideous alien shapes seemed to throng about him
the air was thick with musty smells which sidled into his lungs without identifying themselves
and a low irritating hum kept his brain from focusing.
"How did we get here?" he asked
shivering slightly.
"We hitched a lift
" said Ford.