經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第8章 Part 6

"I don't know," yelled Ford, "I don't know. It sounded like a measurement of probability."
"Probability? What do you mean?"
"Probability. You know, like two to one, three to one, five to four against. It said two to the power of one hundred thousand to one against. That's pretty improbable you know."
A million-gallon vat of custard upended itself over them without warning.
"But what does it mean?" cried Arthur.
"What, the custard?"
"No, the measurement of probability!"
"I don't know. I don't know at all. I think we're on some kind of spaceship."
"I can only assume," said Arthur, "that this is not the first-class compartment."
Bulges appeared in the fabric of space-time. Great ugly bulges.
"Haaaauuurrgghhh ..." said Arthur as he felt his body softening and bending in unusual directions. "Southend seems to be melting away ... the stars are swirling ... a dustbowl ... my legs are drifting off into the sunset ... my left arm's come off too." A frightening thought struck him: "Hell," he said, "how am I going to operate my digital watch now?" He wound his eyes desperately around in Ford's direction.
"Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
Again came the voice.
"Two to the power of seventy-five thousand to one against and falling."
Ford waddled around his pond in a furious circle. "Hey, who are you," he quacked. "Where are you? What's going on and is there any way of stopping it?"

“我不知道，”福特喊着說，“我不知道。聽上去像是在計算概率。”
“概率？你是什麼意思？”
“概率。你知道的，就像2比1，3比1，5比4什麼的。這聲音說2的100，000次方比1.你知道，這種概率也太小了點。”
一個裝着一百萬加侖奶油凍的巨桶在他們頭上傾倒下來，事先沒有任何徵兆。
“這又是什麼意思？”阿瑟叫喊着。
“什麼，奶油凍嗎？”
“不，我是說那個不可能的極小概率測算1”
“我不知道，我什麼都不知道。我想我們是在一艘飛船上。”
“我惟一能推測的就是，”阿瑟說，“這不是頭等艙。”
時空維度開始出現凸起的膨脹。巨大而醜陋的凸起。
“啊、啊、啊……”阿瑟叫起來，因爲他感到自己的身體正在變軟，向着一些不正常的方向彎曲，“南角好像正在融化……星星形成了旋渦……像一個塵暴區……我的雙腳正在向旋渦中滑去……我的左臂也快進去了。”一個恐怖的念頭突然降臨，“該死，”他說，“現在我怎麼操作我的電子錶？”他絕望地把目光轉向福特。
“福特，”他驚呼了一聲，“你正在變成一隻企鵝。快停下來。”
這時，那個聲音再次傳來。
“2的75，000次方比1，正在下降。”
“嘿，你是誰？”福特呷呷叫着問，“你在哪兒？這裏到底發生了什麼，有辦法停下來嗎？”