经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第10章 Part 2

"You watch this door," he muttered, "it's about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates."
With an ingratiating little whine the door slit open again and Marvin stomped through.
"Come on," he said.
The others followed quickly and the door slit back into place with pleased little clicks and whirrs.
"Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation," said Marvin and trudged desolately up the gleaming curved corridor that stretched out before them. "Let's build robots with Genuine People Personalities," they said. So they tried it out with me. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell can't you?"
Ford and Arthur muttered embarrassed little disclaimers.
"I hate that door," continued Marvin. "I'm not getting you down at all am I?"
"Which government ..." started Ford again.
"No government owns it," snapped the robot, "it's been Stolen."
"Stolen?"
"Stolen?" mimicked Marvin.

“你盯着这扇门，”他咕哝着说，“它又要打开了。我知道，因为它突然产生出一股自以为是的气焰，真是让人无法忍受。”
随着一阵讨好的吱吱声，门滑开了。马文重重地踏着步子走出门去。
“跟我来。”他说。
福特和阿瑟快步跟上他，然后门又带着愉快的咔嚓声滑回原位。
“天狼星控制系统公司市插部！真是多谢啦，”走在过道上，马文说，“‘让我们造一种具备真实人类个性的机器人吧，’他们说。于是他们尝试着制造了我，我是一台个性原型机。你们看得出来，是吧？”
福特和阿瑟尴尬地随口应付了几声。
“我讨厌那扇门。”马文继续说道，“我还没把你们带到呢，是吗？”
“哪个政府……”福特又开始了。
“它不属于任何政府，”机器人猛地冒出一句，“它目前已经被偷了。”
“被偷了？”
“被偷了？”马文戏仿道。