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3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy《银河系漫游指南》1979年

作者：(英)道格拉斯·亚当斯

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让我们加入本书主人公阿瑟·邓特的银河冒险，看他怎样跟勇敢的小伙伴福特·派法一起进入乱如麻的恐怖世界，引发一场令人捧腹的灾难。邓特被抛出地球之前，刚有一支宇宙施工队将地球消灭掉，准备在原处建一条高速路。

Join the book's hero, Arthur Dent, as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway.

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--"我现在不想死!"他大声喊道。"我的头疼还没好呢!我不想带着头疼上天堂!"

"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache!"

--宇宙大总统手中没有实权。他唯一的目标就是把人们的注意力从实权人物那儿转移开。

The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists.

--"6乘以9是多少?""6乘以9，42。""对，就这些了。""我总觉得关于宇宙好像哪里出现了根本性的问题。"

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. 42.""That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe."

--人生、宇宙和所有一切的终极奥秘就是——42!

The ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything is...42!