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打印35 And when they left, I got my voice back -- too late. I screamed, "Cameron, for God's sake, they're from space. Why'd you send them away?"
他们走了之后，我才能又开口说话――已经太迟了。我高声叫起来：“天哪，卡默伦，他们是从太空来的。你为什么要赶他们走？”
36 "From space!" He stared at me.
“从太空来的！”他两眼瞪着我。
37 I yelled, "Look!" I don't know how I did it, he being twenty-five pounds heavier than I, but I heaved him to the window by his shirt collar.
我大喝一声：“你看！”我到现在都不明白是怎么一回事，他比我重了25英磅，可我竟然扯着他的衣领把他拽到了窗前。
38 He was too surprised to resist and when he recovered his wits enough to make like he was going to knock me down, he caught sight of what was going on outside the window and the breath went out of him.
他震惊之下都没有反抗，等他回过神来想要把我击倒时，正好看见窗外的情景，顿时气都喘不出来了。
39 They were getting into the flying saucer, those two men, and the saucer sat there, large, round, shiny and kind of powerful, you know. Then it took off. It went up easy as a feather and a red-orange glow showed up on one side and got brighter as the ship got smaller till it was a shooting star again, slowly fading out.
他们正在进入飞碟，就是那两人，飞碟就在那儿，知道吗，大大的， 圆圆的，亮晶晶的，挺有气势的。接着飞碟起飞了。它轻轻巧巧地上升，像根羽毛似的，一侧发出一道桔红色的光芒，那光越来越强烈，飞碟变得越来越小，最后重新变成一颗流星渐渐消失。
40 And I said, "Sheriff, why'd you send them away? They had to see the President. Now they'll never come back."
我说：“治安官，你什么要赶他们走？他们要见总统。这下他们再也不会回来了。”
41 Cameron said, "I thought they were foreigners. They said they had to learn our language. And they talked funny."
卡默伦说：“我当他们是外国人。他们说的，要学我们的语言。而且他们说的话莫名其妙。”
42 "Oh, fine. Foreigners."
“哼，得了，还外国人呢。”
43 "They said they were foreigners and they looked Italian. I thought they were Italian."
“他们说自己是外国人，两人看上去像是意大利人。我以为他们是意大利人。”
44 "How could they be Italian? They said they were from the planet Venus. I heard them. They said so."
“他们怎么会是意大利人呢？他们说他们是从金星来的。我听见的。他们是这么说的。”
45 "The planet Venus." His eyes got real round.
“金星。”他的眼睛瞪得越发圆了。
46 "They said it. They called it the watery place or something. You know Venus has a lot of water on it."
“他们是这么说的。他们把它叫做水乡什么的。要知道，金星上多的是水。”
47 But you see, it was just an error, a stupid error, the kind anyone could make. Only now Earth is never going to have another Venusian visit us. That dope, Cameron, and his income tax!
所以你瞧，这仅仅是个错误，一个愚蠢的错误，那种人人都可能犯的错误。只是从今往后地球上再也不会有任何金星人来访了。卡默伦这个笨蛋，还有他那该死的税单！
48 Because he whispered, "Venus! When they talked about the watery place, I thought they meant Venice!"
只听他嘀咕道：“金星！他们说水乡的时候，我还以为他们指的是威尼斯呢！”
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