银河系漫游指南国语 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第20章1

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第20章1  

Five figures wandered slowly over the blighted land. Bits of it were dullish grey
bits of it dullish brown
the rest of it rather less interesting to look at. It was like a dried-out marsh
now barren of all vegetation and covered with a layer of dust about an inch thick. It was very cold.
Zaphod was clearly rather depressed about it. He stalked off by himself and was soon lost to sight behind a slight rise in the ground.
The wind stung Arthur's eyes and ears
and the stale thin air clasped his throat. However
the thing stung most was his mind.
"It's fantastic ..." he said
and his own voice rattled his ears. Sound carried badly in this thin atmosphere.
"Desolate hole if you ask me
" said Ford. "I could have more fun in a cat litter." He felt a mounting irritation. Of all the plas in all the star systems of all the Galaxy — didn't he just have to turn up at a dump like this after fifteen years of being a castaway? Not even a hot dog stand in evidence. He stooped down and Picked up a cold clot of earth
but there was nothing underneath it worth crossing thousands of light years to look at.
"No
" insisted Arthur
"don't you understand
this is the first time I've actually stood on the surface of another pla ... a whole alien world ...! Pity it's such a dump though."
Trillian hugged herself
shivered and frowned. She could have sworn she saw a slight and unexpected movement out of the corner of her eye
but when she glanced in that direction all she could see was the ship
still and silent
a hundred yards or so behind them.
She was relieved when a second or so later they caught sight of Zaphod standing on top of the ridge of ground and waving to them to e and join him.
He seemed to be excited
but they couldn't clearly hear what he was saying because of the thinnish atmosphere and the wind.