经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第1章2

Or so it would seem.
Two of there strange, ape-like creatures survived.
Arthur Dent escaped at the very last moment because an old friend of his, Ford Prefect, suddenly turned out to be from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he had hitherto claimed; and, more to the point, he knew how to hitch rides on flying saucers.
Tricia McMillian – or Trillian – had skipped the planet six months earlier with Zaphod Beeblebrox, the then President of the Galaxy.
Two survivors.
They are all that remains of the greatest experiment ever conducted – to find the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
And, less than half a million miles from where their starship is drifting lazily through the inky blackness of space, a Vogon ship is moving slowly towards them.

或者说，似乎是这样。
这种长得和猿差不多的奇怪生物中，只有两个幸存下来。
阿瑟·邓特在最后一刻逃脱了和地球一起消失的厄运，这多亏了他的一个老朋友，福特长官。这位朋友突然宣布了自己的真实身份：他其实来自猎户座参宿四附近的一颗小行星，而非在此之前他自己所一直声称的那样，来自吉尔福德；并且，更关键的是，他恰好知道如何搭上飞碟的便车。
崔茜卡·麦克米伦——或者叫做崔莉恩——则是此前六个月离开的地球。她和当时的银河系总统赞福德·毕博布鲁克斯在一起。
是的，仅有的两个幸存者。
他们就是有史以来最大的一次实验所残存下来的全部内容了——那是为了寻找关于生命、宇宙以及一切终极问题和终极答案的一次实验。
此刻，当他们的星际飞船在漆黑的太空中懒洋洋地飘荡时，不到五十万英里以外，一艘沃贡人的飞船正在缓慢地接近他们。