Douglas Adams famously said he loved the "whoosh" of missed deadlines passing over his head.

格拉斯亚曾说过一句名言，他喜欢错过最后期限的“嗖嗖声”掠过他的头顶。

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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.

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。

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In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams first introduced us to Babel Fish as a beneficial ear parasite.

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。

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A number of you have probably read some of Douglas Adams' books.

你们可能有人读过道格拉斯?亚当斯的书

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Back in 1999, Douglas Adams wrote an interesting piece on the then very new consumer internet.

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Douglas Adams died in 2001, having written five of the enduringly popular Hitchhiker books - still inaccurately dubbed a trilogy.

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More proof that seemingly earth-shaking findings (like, say, bacteria with arsenic in their DNA) are often not true but will make you wish Douglas Adams was around to write about them.

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