巴別魚

巴別魚體型很小，黃色，外形像水蛭，以接收腦電波的能量為生。

出自道格拉斯·亞當斯的小說《銀河系漫遊指南》

基本介紹

• 中文名：巴別魚
• 出處：《銀河系漫遊指南》
• 類型：動物

巴別魚傳奇

巴別魚，很可能是宇宙中最奇異的事物。它靠接收腦電波的能量為生，並且不是從其攜帶者身上接收，而是從周圍的人身上。它從這些腦電波能量中吸收所有未被人察覺的精神頻率，轉化成營養。然後它向攜帶者的思想中排泄一種由被察覺到的精神頻率和大腦語言中樞提供的神經信號混合而成的心靈感應矩陣。所有這些過程的實際效果就是，如果你把一條巴別魚塞進耳朵，你就能立刻理解以任何形式的語言對你說的任何事情。你所聽到的解碼信號就是巴別魚向你的思想提供的腦電波矩陣。

The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mentalfrequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

以上解釋引述自道格拉斯·亞當斯的小說《銀河系漫遊指南》（徐百柯譯）里的旅遊手冊《銀河系漫遊指南》。