經典科幻文學:《 基本上無害 Mostly Harmless》 第5章3

'That must be very boring, isn't it?' she blurted out.

“肯定很無聊，對不？”她脫口而出。

'Yes.' 'So why…' 'Except…' 'Yes? Except what?'

“是的。”“那爲什麼……”“除了……”“什麼？除了什麼？”

'Game shows. We quite like game shows.'

“電視知識問答。我們挺喜歡看電視上的知識問答。”

There was a terribly long silence as Tricia looked at the Aliens and the aliens looked at her.

隨之而來的是一陣長的可怕的沉默，期間崔茜卡看着外星人，外星人也看着她。

'There's something I would just like to get from indoors,' said Tricia very deliberately. 'Tell you what. Would you, or one of you, like to come inside with me and have a look?'

“我屋裏有些東西我想去拿。”崔茜卡一字一句的說，“我說，你們，或者你們中的哪一個，願不願意跟我一道去進去看看？”

'Very much,' they all said, enthusiastically.

“非常願意。”他們個個都很熱心。

All three of them stood, slightly awkwardly in her sitting room, as she hurried around picking up a video camera, a 35mm camera, a tape recorder, every recording medium she could grab hold of. They were all thin and, under domestic lighting conditions, a sort of dim purplish green.

三個外星人全都站在她的起居室裏，姿態稍微顯得有點笨拙。崔茜卡匆匆忙忙地拿起一架攝影機，一個35毫米鏡頭的相機，一臺錄音機，簡而言之就是她能抓到的所有錄製設備。這些外星人個個都挺瘦，在室內的光線條件下，呈現出某種發紫的綠色。

'I really won't be a second, guys,' Tricia said, as she rummaged through some drawers for spare tapes and films.

“很快就好，夥計們，真的。”崔茜卡開始掃蕩抽屜，搜索空白的膠片，磁帶之類。

The aliens were looking at the shelves that held her CDs and her old records. One of them nudged one of the others very slightly.

外星人正打量着她放CD的架子和她的舊唱片。其中一個很輕很輕地碰了碰另一個。

'Look,' he said. 'Elvis.'

“看。”他說，“埃爾維斯。”

Tricia stopped, and stared at them all over again.

崔茜卡停下來，重新把他們打量了一通。

'You like Elvis?' she said.

“你們喜歡埃爾維斯？”她問。

'Yes,' they said.

“是的。”他們答。

'Elvis Presley?'

“貓王埃爾維斯.普雷斯利？”