经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第4章 Part 5

Beneath it lay uncovered a huge starship, one hundred and fifty metres long, shaped like a sleek running shoe, perfectly white and mindboggingly beautiful. At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wretching device ever conceived, a device which made this starship unique in the history of the galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named — The Heart of Gold.
"Wow", said Zaphod Beeblebrox to the Heart of Gold. There wasn't much else he could say.
He said it again because he knew it would annoy the press. "Wow."
The crowd turned their faces back towards him expectantly. He winked at Trillian who raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes at him. She knew what he was about to say and thought him a terrible showoff.
"That is really amazing," he said. "That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it."
A marvellous Presidential quote, absolutely true to form. The crowd laughed appreciatively, the newsmen gleefully punched buttons on their Sub-Etha News-Matics and the President grinned.
As he grinned his heart screamed unbearably and he fingered the small Paralyso-Matic bomb that nestled quietly in his pocket.
Finally he could bear it no more. He lifted his heads up to the sky, let out a wild whoop in major thirds, threw the bomb to the ground and ran forward through the sea of suddenly frozen smiles.

在这个穹顶下面，露出来的是一艘巨大的飞船，足有150米长，外形看上去像一只光滑的跑鞋，纯白色的，漂亮极了。就在这艘飞船的心脏位置，看不见的地方，放着一个小小的黄金盒子，里面装着头脑所能构想出来的最伟大的装置，正是这个装置使得这艘飞船成为银河系历史上独一无二的飞船，飞船的名字正是按照这个装置的名字来取的——黄金之心。
“哇！”赞福德·毕博布鲁克斯对着黄金之心赞叹道。他确实也找不到别的什么话来表达此刻的感受了。
他又重复了一遍，因为他知道这会使记者们感到很恼火。“哇。”
人们纷纷转过脸来期待地看着赞福德。他则冲崔莉恩眨了一下眼，她正扬起眉毛睁大眼睛望着他。她知道他将要说些什么，她很清楚他是个多么爱炫耀自己的人。
“真是太惊人了，”他说，“绝对震撼！这东西简直让人疯狂，我甚至想把它偷走。”
这可是句货真价实的总统语录，绝对值得大大引用一番。人群中爆发出赞赏的掌声，新闻记者们则一个个喜笑颜开地敲打着亚以太新闻机的按键。总统咧开嘴笑了。
正笑着，他的心脏却发出了令人难以忍受的尖叫，他赶紧把手伸进衣兜，捏住静静躺在里面的那颗小小的麻痹剂炸弹。
终于，他无法再忍受了，于是仰头向着天，用大三度的高音发出一声野性的叫喊，同时把炸弹扔到地上，然后朝前猛冲，穿过那一片突然凝固的笑脸的海洋。