經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第5章 Part 6
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a sort of electronic book. It tells you everything you need to know about anything. That's its job."
Arthur turned it over nervously in his hands.
"I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
"I'll show you how it works," said Ford. He snatched it from Arthur who was still holding it as if it was a two-week-dead lark and pulled it out of its cover.
"You press this button here you see and the screen lights up giving you the index."
A screen, about three inches by four, lit up and characters began to flicker across the surface.
"You want to know about Vogons, so I enter that name so." His fingers tapped some more keys. "And there we are."
The words Vogon Constructor Fleets flared in green across the screen.
“《銀河系漫遊指南》。這是一種電子書。它能告訴你你所想知道的任何事情。這就是它的功用。”
阿瑟緊張地將書在手裏翻了一面。
“我喜歡這封面，”他說，“‘不要恐慌。’一整天來總算有人對我說了句有用或者明智的話了。”
“我來給你演示一下它是如何工作的。”福特說。他一把從阿瑟手裏奪過書，而阿瑟剛剛小心翼翼地把書從封面裏取出來。
“按這兒的這個按鈕，你瞧，屏幕亮起來了，顯示出索引目錄。”
屏幕大約有3英寸長、4英寸寬，漸漸亮起來，字母開始在上面閃過。
“你想了解沃貢人，現在就可以輸入這個名字。”說着他的手指開始敲擊按鍵，“行了。”
於是“沃貢建築施工艦隊”這幾個詞閃着綠光山現在屏幕上。
