银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第9章 Part 4

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第9章 Part 4  

"Just a couple of guys we seem to have picked up in open space
" she said. "Section ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha."
"Yeah
well that's a very sweet thought Trillian
" plained Zaphod
"but do you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean
here we are on the run and everything
we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now
and we stop to pick up hitch hikers. OK
so ten out of ten for style
but minus several million for good thinking
yeah?"
He tapped irritably at a control panel. Trillian quietly moved his hand before he tapped anything important. Whatever Zaphod's qualities of mind might include — dash
bravado
conceit — he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture. Trillian had e to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
"Zaphod
" she said patiently
"they were floating unprotected in open space ... you wouldn't want them to have died would you?"
"Well
you know ... no. Not as such
but ..."
"Not as such? Not die as such? But?" Trillian cocked her head on one side.
"Well
maybe someone else might have picked them up later."
"A second later and they would have been dead."
"Yeah
so if you'd taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longer it would have gone away."
"You'd been happy to let them die?"
"Well
you know
not happy as such
but ..."
"Anyway
" said Trillian
turning back to the controls
"I didn't pick them up."
"What do you mean? Who picked them up then?"
"The ship did."
"Huh?"