经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第17章12

“The car park?” said Zaphod, “what are you doing there?”
“Parking cars, what else does one do in a car park?”
“OK, hang in there, we’ll be right down.”
In one movement Zaphod leapt to his feet, threw down the phone and wrote “Hotblack Desiato” on the bill.
“Come on guys,” he said, “Marvin’s in the car park. Let’s get on down.”
“What’s he doing in the car park?” asked Arthur.
“Parking cars, what else? Dum dum.”
“But what about the End of the Universe? We’ll miss the big moment.”
“I’ve seen it. It’s rubbish,” said Zaphod, “nothing but a gnab gib.”
“A what?”
“Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let’s get zappy.” Few of the other diners paid them any attention as they weaved their way through the Restaurant to the exit. Their eyes were riveted on the horror of the skies.
“An interesting effect to watch for,” Max was telling them, “is in the upper left-hand quadrant of the sky, where if you look very carefully you can see the star system Hastromil boiling away into the ultra-violet. Anyone here from Hastromil?”
There were one or two slightly hesitant cheers from somewhere at the back.
“Well,” said Max beaming cheerfully at them, “it’s too late to worry about whether you left the gas on now.”

“停车场？”赞福德说，“你在那儿干吗？”
“停车，一个人在停车场还能干吗？”
“好吧，你再坚持一下，我们这就下来。”
赞福德跳起来，扔掉电话，在账单上签下“霍特布莱克·迪西亚托”。
“走吧，伙计们，”他说，“马文正在停车场。我们下去吧”
“他在停车场干什么？”阿瑟问。
“停车呗，还能干什么？走吧，走吧。”
“可是宇宙的终结怎么办呢？我们将会错过这个最盛大的时刻。”
“我以前看过的。一钱不值，”赞福德说，“小猫一只。”
“一只什么？”
“创世大爆炸的反面而已；走吧，咱们去找别的事干。”他们穿过餐厅走向出口，其他用餐者丝毫没有留意。这些人的眼睛早已同定在令人恐惧的天空景观上。
“值得观察的一个有趣的现象，”马克斯正在对他们说，“就在天空左上角的那个扇面内。如果你看得非常仔细的话，你会看到哈斯特洛米尔星系正蒸腾成紫外线辐射。这里有人来自哈斯特洛米尔吗？”
后面某个地方传来一两声微弱、犹豫的欢呼。
“好吧，”马克斯说，一边高兴地冲他们微笑着，“现在再担心你们是不是忘了关煤气，似乎已经太晚了。”