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THE ROOM into which the three were ushered was the Controller's study.
三個人被引進的房間是總統的書房。
"His fordship will be down in a moment." The Gamma butler left them to themselves.
“總統閣下馬上就下來。”伽瑪仆役長把他們留在了那里。
Helmholtz laughed aloud.
赫姆霍爾茲放聲大笑。
"It's more like a caffeine-solution party than a trial," he said, and let himself fall into the most luxurious of the pneumatic arm-chairs.
“這倒不像是審判，而是請喝咖啡。”他說，然后倒進了最奢侈的氣墊沙發椅。
"Cheer up, Bernard," he added, catching sight of his friend's green unhappy face.
“別泄氣，伯納。”他瞥見了他的朋友那鐵青的不快活的臉，又說。
But Bernard would not be cheered; without answering, without even looking at Helmholtz,
伯納卻泄了氣。他沒有回答，連看也沒有看他一眼，
he went and sat down on the most uncomfortable chair in the room,
只走到屋里最不舒服的一張椅子上坐下了。
carefully chosen in the obscure hope of somehow deprecating the wrath of the higher powers.
那是他小心選擇的，暗暗希望能夠多少減輕首長的惱怒。
The Savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelves,
這時野蠻人卻在屋子里煩躁地走來走去。他帶著一種模糊的表面的好奇窺視著書架上的書、
at the sound-track rolls and reading machine bobbins in their numbered pigeon-holes.
錄音膠卷和編號的小格子里的閱讀機線軸。
On the table under the window lay a massive volume bound in limp black leather-surrogate, and stamped with large golden T's.
窗戶下的桌上有一本巨大的書，柔軟的黑色人造皮封面，燙著巨大的金T字。
He picked it up and opened it.
他拿起書，翻了開來。
MY LIFE AND WORK, BY OUR FORD.
《我的一生及事業》，
The book had been published at Detroit by the Society for the Propagation of Fordian Knowledge.
我主福特著。是福帝知識宣傳協會在底特律出版的。
Idly he turned the pages, read a sentence here, a paragraph there, and had just come to the conclusion that the book didn't interest him, when the door opened,
他懶洋洋地翻了幾頁，東看一句，西看一段，正想下結論說這本書引不起他的興趣，門開了，
and the Resident World Controller for Western Europe walked briskly into the room.
駐曄西歐的世界總統輕快地踏進門來。
Mustapha Mond shook hands with all three of them; but it was to the Savage that he addressed himself.
穆斯塔法蒙德跟他們三個人—一握手，話卻是對野蠻人說的。
"So you don't much like civilization, Mr. Savage," he said.
“看來你并不太喜歡文明，野蠻人先生。”他說。
The Savage looked at him.
野蠻人看了看他。
He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to remain sullenly unresponsive;
他曾經打算撒謊、吹牛或是怒氣沖沖一言不發。
but, reassured by the good-humoured intelligence of the Controller's face, he decided to tell the truth, straightforwardly.
但是總統臉上那親切的聰明卻叫他放下心來。他決心直截了當說真話。
"No." He shook his head.
“不喜歡。”他搖搖頭。
