出差几周前到这个国家旅游时，我在收音机上收听关于已故的英国作家道格拉斯·亚当斯的杰作《银河系漫游指南》的相关评论。
Traveling through the country a couple of weeks ago on business, I was listening to the talk of the late UK writer Douglas Adams' masterwork "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on the radio.
你们可能有人读过道格拉斯·亚当斯的书。
A number of you have probably read some of Douglas Adams' books.
引用道格拉斯·亚当斯的话，再见，多谢你们给的鱼。
In the words of Douglas Adams, so long and thanks for all the fish.
《银河系漫游指南》作者、英年早逝的道格拉斯·亚当斯构造出许多滑稽的生物。
DOUGLAS ADAMS, the late lamented author of "the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", dreamed up many comic creations.
在道格拉斯·亚当斯银河漫游指南中，巴别鱼是一种能翻译任何语言的黄色小生物。
In Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish was a small yellow creature capable of translating any language when placed in a person's ear.
在《银河系漫游指南》这本书里，道格拉斯·亚当斯向我们介绍过一种有益的耳道寄生虫：巴别鱼。
In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams first introduced us to Babel Fish as a beneficial ear parasite.
斯托克斯·亚当斯病：因心脏传导阻滞而致的脉搏的暂停或极缓慢跳动，能引起头晕、昏厥，有时引起痉挛。
An occasional temporary stoppage or extreme slowing of the pulse as a result of heart block, causing dizziness, fainting, and sometimes convulsions.
16年前，当克莱伦斯·亚当斯在新奥尔良无家可归者庇护中心申请一个顾问职位时，他对无家可归几乎没有任何概念。
When Clarence Adams applied for a job as a counselor at a new Orleans homeless shelter 16 years ago, he knew very little about homelessness.
42还是关于生命、宇宙和一切事情的终极问题之答案，或者至少，道格拉斯·亚当斯(Douglas Adams)是这么说的。
And 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Or at least, that's what Douglas Adams says.
照他自己说，道格拉斯·亚当斯在喜剧上起步很早，他声称的开端还是在剑桥妇产医院里面，他给医护人员的生活带去了意想不到的乐趣。
By his own account, Douglas Adams started young in comedy. He claimed it began in the maternity hospital in Cambridge, where he brought unexpected joy into the lives of the nursing staff.
这是完美的道格拉斯·亚当斯式的幽默，根植于语言、角色以及对语调和速度的完美控制，正是这些使得漫游指南成为现代文学真正的经典。
This is perfect Douglas Adams humour, rooted in language, character and the sheer control of tone and pacing that makes Hitchhiker's a genuine classic of modern literature.
“如果它长得像鸭子，而且像鸭子般呱呱叫，那我们至少得考虑这种可能性：我们手中得有只鸭科的小水鸟”，洛兹引述道格拉斯·亚当斯的话说。
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands," said Rose, quoting Douglas Adams.
已故的《银河系漫游指南》作者道格拉斯·亚当斯（Douglas Adams）构思了许多的漫画角色，其中最为著名的要数“巴别鱼”了。
DOUGLAS ADAMS, the late lamented author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", dreamed up many comic creations. One of his greatest was the Babel fish.
历史学家詹姆斯·特鲁斯洛·亚当斯将汉考克描述为肤浅且虚荣的。
Historian James Truslow Adams portrayed Hancock as shallow and vain.
巴士上的我们已经融合成为一个流动的亚当斯之家。 （译者注：亚当斯之家是美国漫画家查尔斯.亚当斯的作品。）
On the bus, we have become a sort of itinerant Addams family.
亚当斯女士，现年五十岁，与小说家理查德·普赖斯居住在哈莱姆。 后者是《奢华生活》(09年8月时据说奥巴马正在看这部小说）和《黑街追缉令》（已被拍成电影）的作者。
Ms. Adams, 50, lives in Harlem with novelist Richard Price, author of "Lush Life" and "Clockers."
《约翰•亚当斯》由保罗•加麦蒂（饰亚当斯）和劳拉•莱尼（饰阿比盖尔）领衔主演，其他赏包括大卫•摩斯，沙拉•波利和汤姆•威尔金森。
Other cast members include David Morse, Sarah Polley and Tom Wilkinson.
我也推荐亚当斯的另一本书，《与河流同行，对话与摄影》，在这本书中，他几乎让我相信多罗西·兰格是一位比沃克。艾旺斯优秀的摄影师。
I would also recommend Adams' book, Along Some Rivers, Conversations and Photographs, in which he almost convinced me that Dorothea Lange was a better photographer than Walker Evans. Almost.
我也推荐亚当斯的另一本书，《与河流同行，对话与摄影》，在这本书中，他几乎让我相信多罗西·兰格是一位比沃克。艾旺斯优秀的摄影师。
I would also recommend Adams' book, Along Some Rivers, Conversations and Photographs, in which he almost convinced me that Dorothea Lange was a better photographer than Walker Evans.Almost.
“约翰·亚当斯，托马斯·杰斐逊，詹姆斯·麦迪逊和约翰·昆西·亚当斯，然后亚伯拉罕·林肯在20世纪仅有伍德罗·威尔逊，”他说。
"There's John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Quincy Adams, then Abraham Lincoln and in the 20th century just Woodrow Wilson," he said.
我对于亚当斯、史密斯、托马斯想念，现在是托雷、亨利、法布雷加斯，我们的俱乐部，我们的球员。
It was Adams, Smith, Thomas back then... now it's toure, Henry, Fabregas, but the sense of association remains. Our club.
已故的 "银河系搭车指南"的作者，道格拉斯.亚当斯在他的作品中创造过许多有趣的生物，其中最著名的有就要数“巴别鱼”了。
DOUGLAS ADAMS, the late lamented author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, dreamed up many comic creations. One of his greatest was the Babel fish.
亚当斯说，多亏有几十名象希克斯这样的志愿者帮助，他们今年能为200多个无家可归的孩子们举行圣诞派对。
With dozens of volunteers like Tiffani Hicks, Clarence Adams says they were able to serve more than 200 homeless kids this year.
在本周会面时，佩斯利和亚当斯都向上帝祈福，允诺会有一个新的开始。
Both Mr Paisley and Mr Adams invoked God and pledged a new beginning when they met this week.
除了助教汤尼·亚当斯，还有现役的劳伦，坎贝尔，卡奴，理查德·休斯，拉萨纳·迪亚拉以及热罗姆·托马斯出现在了“庞培军团”的名册上，他们都是前枪手球员。
As well as assistant manager Tony Adams, there are currently Lauren, Sol Campbell, Kanu, Richard Hughes, Lassana Diarra and Jerome Thomas on the books at Pompey, all of them ex-Arsenal players.
我意识到亚当斯在向某个人汇报。这个项目是由一个叫弗兰克——麦克斯韦尔的人资助的。麦克斯韦尔公司，这个名称出现在我的工资支票上。
Eventually, I realized Adams was reporting to someone. A man named Frank Maxwell was financing the project. The company, Maxwell Enterprises, was on my paychecks.
其他的企业则认同漫画家斯科•特亚当斯的观点，在他的《精明的销售员肯尼》中，有位工程师解释一个产品的技术特性时说道，“我们这个产品是米黄色的，它使用电”“哇，大脑超负荷工作！”
Others agree with Scott Adams, a cartoonist, whose character “Kenny the Sales Weasel” asks an engineer to explain a product’s technical specifications. “Our product is beige.
比方说油画家里克·诺斯吉安(RickNorsigian)，他在10年前的一次后院摆卖上购买了65张玻璃板底片，据称是由传奇的摄影师安塞尔·亚当斯(Ansel Adams)在上世纪而、三十年代拍摄的。
Take painter Rick Norsigian, who bought 65 glass-plate negatives at a yard sale 10 years ago that were purportedly taken by photography legend Ansel Adams in the 1920s and 1930s.
比方说油画家里克·诺斯吉安(RickNorsigian)，他在10年前的一次后院摆卖上购买了65张玻璃板底片，据称是由传奇的摄影师安塞尔·亚当斯(Ansel Adams)在上世纪而、三十年代拍摄的。
Take painter Rick Norsigian, who bought 65 glass-plate negatives at a yard sale 10 years ago that were purportedly taken by photography legend Ansel Adams in the 1920s and 1930s.
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