经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》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.

“《银河系漫游指南》。这是一种电子书。它能告诉你你所想知道的任何事情。这就是它的功用。”
阿瑟紧张地将书在手里翻了一面。
“我喜欢这封面，”他说，“‘不要恐慌。’一整天来总算有人对我说了句有用或者明智的话了。”
“我来给你演示一下它是如何工作的。”福特说。他一把从阿瑟手里夺过书，而阿瑟刚刚小心翼翼地把书从封面里取出来。
“按这儿的这个按钮，你瞧，屏幕亮起来了，显示出索引目录。”
屏幕大约有3英寸长、4英寸宽，渐渐亮起来，字母开始在上面闪过。
“你想了解沃贡人，现在就可以输入这个名字。”说着他的手指开始敲击按键，“行了。”
于是“沃贡建筑施工舰队”这几个词闪着绿光山现在屏幕上。