雙語讀電影《瘋狂動物城》第9章 洋蔥頭案

Chapter 9

The next day, Judy was back to ticketing cars parked at expired meters. She plunked a ticket down, and a moose yelled at her: “I was thirty seconds over!”

As another meter dinged, Judy scribbled the ticket and placed it on a tiny windshield.

“You’re a real hero, lady!” yelled an angry mouse.

Ding! Judy wrote out a third ticket, which a hippo picked up. Her small child looked at Judy and said, “My mommy says she wishes you were dead.”

An angry driver shouted, “Uncool, rabbit. My tax dollars pay your salary.”

Later, Judy got into her cart and turned the key. But the engine wouldn’t start. She banged her head against the steering wheel, making the horn honk.

“I am a real cop,” she muttered weakly. “I am a real cop. I am a real cop...”

“Hey hey!” called a frantic pig, running toward her.

The pig pounded on her cart window. “You! Bunny!”

“Sir, if you have a grievance, you may contest your citation in—” she responded mechanically.

“What’re you talking about?” shouted the pig. “My shop! It just got robbed! Look, he’s getting away! Well! Are you a cop or not?”

“Oh, yes,” said Judy, snapping out of it. “Don’t worry, sir. I got this!”

She spotted a weasel running down the street, carrying a bag of stolen goods and jumped out of her cart.

“Stop!” she yelled, chasing the thief. “Stop in the name of the law!”

“Catch me if you can, cottontail!” shouted the weasel.

McHorn screeched up in his patrol car. “This is Officer McHorn. We’ve got a 10-31,” the rhinoceros said into his radio.

Judy slid right across McHorn’s hood as she ripped off her vest and hat and shouted, “I got dibs! Officer Hopps. I am in pursuit!”

She chased the weasel through Savanna Central, dodging giant elephants along the way.

Then the weasel ducked into the tiny community of Little Rodentia. The large cops, who had joined in the chase, couldn’t fit through the gate, but Judy was small enough to follow the weasel in.

“You!” she yelled forcefully. “Freeze!”

“Hey, meter maid! Wait for the real cops!” called McHorn.

Little Rodentia was packed with tiny rodents, and Judy and the weasel looked like giants pounding down its small streets.

A mouse school bus swerved to avoid the weasel and flew skyward. Judy caught it in mid-air, preventing a disaster. The mice inside cheered as she gently placed the bus on the ground. Judy watched the weasel jump off the top of a mouse building, tipping it over. She struggled to protect each and every building the weasel knocked into. Then he leapt on top of a moving mouse train!

“Bon voyage, flatfoot!” said the weasel with a chuckle, riding the train away.

But Judy wasn’t about to give up. She ran even faster, until she was able to push him off the train. Rodents screamed and ran as Judy and the weasel came barreling through their midst.

“Hey!” she yelled. “Stop right there!”

“Have a donut, copper!” the weasel said with a laugh as he yanked a huge donut sign from the front of a shop. He flung it at Judy, but it missed and bounced toward some shrews coming out of Mousy’s department store.

“Ohmygawd, did you see those leopard-print jeggings?” said a fashionable shrew to her friends. She turned to see the donut bouncing toward her and screamed in terror. “Aaaaaaaaaaagh!”

A second before it crushed the shrew, Judy moved in front of the donut and caught it in her arms. Then she turned to the shrew and said, “I love your hair.”

“Awww...thank you,” said the shrew gratefully.

Out of the corner of her eye, Judy noticed that the weasel was about to get away. She threw the giant donut over his head and around his body, trapping him inside. The weasel was stuck!

It wasn’t long before the weasel, still inside the donut, rolled through the front door of the ZPD lobby and hit Clawhauser’s desk.

“I popped the weasel!” Judy exclaimed.

Chief Bogo yelled from the other room: “HOPPS!”

Like a kid in the principal’s office, Judy sat on a giant chair in front of Chief Bogo as he reviewed the report in front of him.

“Abandoning your post, inciting a scurry, reckless endangerment of rodents...but to be fair, you did stop a master criminal from stealing two dozen...um, let’s see...moldy onions.” Bogo looked straight at the bag on his desk that Judy had confiscated from the crook she had stopped—Duke Weaselton.

“Hate to disagree with you, sir, but those aren’t onions,” Judy replied. “Those are a crocus varietal called Midnicampum holicithias. They’re a class C botanical, sir. I grew up in a family where plant husbandry was kind of a thing.”

“Shut your tiny mouth, now,” said Bogo.

“Sir, I got the bad guy. That’s my job.”

“Your job is putting tickets on parked cars.”

Bogo’s intercom clicked as Clawhauser’s voice came through. “Chief, uh, Mrs. Otterton’s here to see you again.”

“Not now,” answered Bogo.

“Okay, I just didn’t know if you wanted to take it this time—” said Clawhauser.

“Not now!”

Judy said, “Sir, I don’t want to be a meter maid. I want to be a—”

“Do you think the mayor asked what I wanted before he assigned you to me?” Bogo interrupted her.

“But, sir—”

“Life isn’t some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go.”

Just then a female otter, Mrs. Otterton, barged in with Clawhauser trailing behind, wheezing.

“Chief Bogo, please, just five minutes of your time,” pleaded Mrs. Otterton.

“I’m sorry, sir, I tried to stop her; she is super slippery. I gotta go sit down,” said Clawhauser, panting.

“Ma’am, as I’ve told you, we are doing everything we can,” said Bogo.

“My husband has been missing for ten days,” said Mrs. Otterton. “His name is Emmitt Otterton.” She held up a family photo.

“Yes, I know,” said Bogo.

“He’s a florist,” she added. “We have two beautiful children. He would never just disappear.”

“Ma’am, our detectives are very busy.”

“Please. There’s got to be somebody to find my Emmitt.”

Bogo tried to calm Mrs. Otterton down, but nothing worked. She kept going on about her concern over Mr. Otterton’s disappearance.

“I will find him,” said Judy.

Bogo looked at Judy as if he was about to explode. He watched as Mrs. Otterton hugged Judy tightly.

“Bless you, bless you, little bunny!” she said, relieved. “You find my Emmitt and bring him home to me and my babies, please.”

Bogo grunted and ushered Mrs. Otterton back outside. “Mrs. Otterton? Please wait out here.”

Bogo closed the door and turned to Judy, furious. “You’re fired.”

“What? Why?” she asked.

“Insubordination. Now, I’m going to open this door, and you are going to tell that otter you’re a former meter maid with delusions of grandeur who will not be taking the case.”

Bogo opened the door and there was Assistant Mayor Bellwether, hugging Mrs. Otterton.

“I just heard Officer Hopps is taking the case!” said Bellwether happily. Bellwether pulled out her phone and began texting. “The Mammal Inclusion Initiative is really paying off! Mayor Lionheart is just going to be so jazzed!”

“Let’s not tell the mayor just yet—” said Bogo.

“And I sent it, and it’s done, so I did do that,” interrupted Bellwether. “Well, I’d say the case is in good hands!” Bellwether smiled at Judy. “We little guys really need to stick together! Right?”

“Like glue!” Judy responded.

“Good one,” Bellwether said. “Just call me if you ever need anything. You’ve always got a friend at city hall, Judy. All right, bye bye!”

“Thank you, ma’am,” Judy said.

Bogo forced a smile and closed the door. He turned to Judy, even angrier than before. “I will give you forty-eight hours,” he said.

“YES!” cried Judy.

“That’s two days to find Emmitt Otterton.”

“Okay.”

“But you strike out, you resign.”

Judy couldn’t believe what he was suggesting. “Oh, uh...,” She thought for a moment and then nodded. “Okay...deal,” she said.

“Splendid. Clawhauser will give you the complete case file,” Bogo said.

Excited, Judy rushed out to the front desk to retrieve the case file. “Here you go!” sang Clawhauser, handing her the file. “One missing otter!”

Judy opened the folder and her jaw dropped. Inside was a single piece of paper. “That’s it?” she said in disbelief.

“Yikes! That is the smallest case file I’ve ever seen! Leads: none. Witnesses: none. And you’re not in the computer system yet, so resources: none.” Clawhauser chuckled. “I hope you didn’t stake your career on cracking this one,” he said, smiling.

Judy didn’t smile back. Clawhauser took a bite of his donut and crumbs landed on the picture inside the file.

“Last known sighting...,” she said, looking at the photo under Clawhauser’s donut crumbs. The picture was from a traffic camera and showed Mr. Otterton on the street. Judy blew the crumbs off and noticed something about the picture. She squinted. Still unable to see, she looked around. “Let me borrow that.” She grabbed Clawhauser’s empty soda bottle. She looked through it, using the glass at the bottom to magnify the image. Now she could see Mr. Otterton holding a frozen treat. She examined it and said thoughtfully, “Pawpsicle.”

“The murder weapon!” Clawhauser said, nodding.

“Get your pawpsicle...,” Judy said, thinking back to the incident with Nick.

“Yeah, because...What does that mean?” asked Clawhauser.

“It means I...have a lead.” She headed out, leaving Clawhauser sitting at his desk, confused.

第 9 章

第二天，朱迪又去給超時停泊的車子開罰單。她剛撕下一張罰單，一頭麋鹿就沖著她大喊大叫：“我只超時30秒!”

隨著又一只計時器叮的一聲響起，朱迪匆忙開好罰單，把它放在一塊小小的擋風(fēng)玻璃上。

“你可真了不起，女士!”一只氣憤的老鼠大嚷道。

叮!朱迪開出了第三張罰單，一頭河馬拿了起來。她幼小的孩子盯著朱迪看了看，緊接著說道：“我媽咪說她希望你死掉。”

一位憤怒的司機喊道：“真不厚道，兔子。你的工資都是從我的稅里出的。”

稍后，朱迪坐進巡邏車，轉(zhuǎn)動車鑰匙。但是發(fā)動機卻啟動不了。她用頭砰砰地撞擊方向盤，使得喇叭鳴叫不停。

“我是名副其實的警察，”她無力地咕噥道，“我是名副其實的警察，我是名副其實的警察……”

“喂喂!”一頭氣急敗壞的豬大聲喊著向她跑過來。

那頭豬砰砰地敲打著她的車窗玻璃。“你!兔子!”

“先生，如果您有什么不滿，可以對罰單提出異議——”她機械地回答道。

“你在說什么?”那頭豬大叫道，“我的商店!剛剛被盜了!看，他想逃跑!喂!你到底是不是警察?”

“哦，是的，”朱迪說著，打起了精神，“別擔(dān)心，先生。我來處理!”

她發(fā)現(xiàn)一只鼬鼠正拖著一袋偷來的東西沿街逃跑，便馬上從車上跳了下來。

“站住!”她一邊大叫著，一邊追逐著那名小偷，“以法律的名義，站住!”

“有本事來抓我呀，棉尾兔!”那只鼬鼠大喊道。

麥大角開著他的巡邏車嘎吱一聲過來了。“我是麥大角警官。發(fā)生了代號為10-31的案件。”那頭犀牛對著無線電說道。

朱迪一把扯掉馬甲，脫下帽子，一下子從麥大角的車子引擎蓋上翻躍了過去，大聲喊道：“我捷足先登了!是霍普斯警官。我在追捕!”

她一路追逐鼬鼠，穿過熱帶草原中部區(qū)，沿途還躲過了巨大的象群。

就在這時，那只鼬鼠一彎腰躲進了一個極小的社區(qū)——小型嚙齒動物鎮(zhèn)。身形高大的警察加入了追捕的隊伍中，卻無法從門口穿過，但是朱迪小小的身體正好可以尾隨鼬鼠進去。

“你!”她堅定地喊道，“不許動!”

“喂，處理違章停車的女交警!等真正的警察過來吧!”麥大角叫嚷道。

小型嚙齒動物鎮(zhèn)里擠滿了丁點兒大的老鼠，而朱迪和鼬鼠看上去像是巨人，正沿著狹小的街道咚咚地前行。

一輛老鼠校車為了躲避鼬鼠，突然急轉(zhuǎn)彎，飛向了空中。朱迪從半空中接住這輛校車，避免了一場災(zāi)難。她將校車輕輕地放到路面上時，車?yán)锏睦鲜髿g呼起來。朱迪看到鼬鼠從一座老鼠大樓的頂端躍了過去，撞得大樓搖搖欲墜。她竭盡全力去保護每一座鼬鼠觸撞過的大樓。緊接著，鼬鼠跳上了一列正在行駛的老鼠火車的車頂。

“一路平安，平足警官!”那只鼬鼠乘火車離去時竊笑著說道。

但是朱迪并沒有放棄。她越跑越快，直至趕上火車，把那只鼬鼠拖了下來。朱迪和鼬鼠從一群老鼠中間飛奔而過，把他們嚇得驚叫著四下逃竄。

“喂!”她大叫道，“馬上站住!”

“吃個甜甜圈吧，警官!”那只鼬鼠猛地拉了一下一家商店門面上巨大的甜甜圈標(biāo)志，大笑著說道。他將甜甜圈標(biāo)志朝朱迪扔去，但是沒有砸中，甜甜圈彈跳著朝著正從穆西服裝店出來的一群鼩鼱滾去。

“哦，天哪，你們看到那些豹紋緊身褲了嗎?”一位時尚的鼩鼱對她的朋友們說道。她轉(zhuǎn)過頭發(fā)現(xiàn)彈跳著朝她滾過來的甜甜圈，嚇得尖聲驚叫：“啊——”

眼看甜甜圈就要碾壓到那只鼩鼱，朱迪抬腿移到甜甜圈前方，一把將它抱起。這時，她扭頭對鼩鼱說道：“我喜歡你的發(fā)型。”

“哦……謝謝你。”鼩鼱感激地說道。

朱迪用眼角的余光注意到鼬鼠想要逃跑。她將那個巨大的甜甜圈拋向鼬鼠頭頂，套住了他的身體，把他困在里面。鼬鼠被卡住了!

很快，還卡在甜甜圈里的鼬鼠就從動物城警察局大廳的大門口滾了進去，撞在了克勞豪瑟的辦公桌上。

“我抓住了鼬鼠!”朱迪高興地叫道。

牛局長從另一個房間里大聲吼道：“霍普斯!”

就在牛局長審核面前的報告時，朱迪就像校長辦公室里的犯錯的小孩，坐在局長對面的巨大座椅里。

“擅離職守，魯莽行動，危害鼠類……不過，說句公道話，你確實阻止了一名要犯偷盜兩打……呃，讓我看看……發(fā)霉的洋蔥。”牛局長直直地望著辦公桌上的袋子，那是朱迪從她剛剛攔截的小偷威斯頓公爵那里沒收的。

“很抱歉我不能茍同，長官，只是那并不是洋蔥。”朱迪回答道，“那是藏紅花的一種。它們屬于C級植物性藥物，長官。我是在以種莊稼為業(yè)的家庭長大的。”

“現(xiàn)在閉上你的小嘴。”牛局長說道。

“長官，我抓到了壞人。那是我的職責(zé)。”

“你的職責(zé)是給停放著的汽車貼罰單。”

牛局長的對講機咔嗒一聲響了，這時克勞豪瑟的聲音傳了進來：“局長，呃，奧獺頓女士又來了，現(xiàn)在想見您。”

“現(xiàn)在不行。”牛局長回答道。

“好的。我只是不知道這次您是否同意——”克勞豪瑟說道。

“現(xiàn)在不行!”

朱迪說道：“長官，我不想做處理違規(guī)停車的女交警。我想當(dāng)一名——”

“你以為市長把你指派給我時，問過我的意見嗎?”牛局長打斷了她的話。

“可是，長官——”

“生活不是什么卡通舞臺劇，只要唱首小曲兒，你那無聊的夢想就能奇跡般地實現(xiàn)。所以還是放棄吧。”

就在這時，一位雌性水獺名叫奧獺頓的女士闖了進來，身后跟著氣喘吁吁的克勞豪瑟。

“牛局長，求您了，就占用您五分鐘時間。”奧獺頓女士懇求道。

“對不起，長官，我本想攔住她的;她太滑了，抓不住。我要坐下了。”克勞豪瑟上氣不接下地說道。

“女士，我已經(jīng)告訴過你了，我們正全力以赴。”牛局長說道。

“我丈夫已經(jīng)失蹤十天了，”奧獺頓女士說道，“他的名字是艾米·奧獺頓。”說完，她拿出了一張全家福。

“是的，我知道。”牛局長說道。

“他是一位花匠，”她補充說道，“我們有兩個漂亮的孩子。他不會就這么失蹤的。”

“女士，我們的偵探非常忙。”

“求您了。總得有人去找艾米。”

牛局長試圖讓奧獺頓女士平靜下來，但都不起作用。她糾纏不休，為奧獺頓先生的失蹤而擔(dān)憂。

“我能找到他。”朱迪說道。

牛局長望著朱迪，好像要大發(fā)雷霆。奧獺頓女士緊緊地摟住朱迪，他在一旁觀望著。

“謝謝您，謝謝您，小兔子!”她如釋重負地說道，“拜托您找到艾米，把他帶回家，帶回到我和孩子們身邊。”

牛局長哼了一聲，把奧獺頓女士帶到了門外。“奧獺頓女士?請在外面稍等一下。”

牛局長關(guān)上門，轉(zhuǎn)身面對朱迪，怒不可遏：“你被開除了。”

“什么?為什么?”她問道。

“不服管理。現(xiàn)在，我去打開這扇門，你要告訴那只水獺你妄自尊大，以前只是處理違章停車的女交警，不能接手這起案件。”

牛局長打開了門，羊副市長卻在那里，正與奧獺頓女士擁抱。

“我剛剛聽說霍普斯警官接手了這起案件!”羊副市長開心地說道。她掏出手機，開始編輯短信。“動物選拔計劃的確很成功!獅市長現(xiàn)在可能會非常激動!”

“我們還是先不要告訴市長——”牛局長說道。

“可是我發(fā)過去了，信息發(fā)好了，這么說來我的確那么做了，”羊副市長插了一句，“那么，這起案件已交給可靠的人去處理了!”羊副市長笑瞇瞇地看著朱迪，說道：“我們小個子動物需要團結(jié)在一起!是嗎?”

“就像膠水一樣!”朱迪回應(yīng)道。

“說得好，”羊副市長說道，“有什么需要，盡管給我打電話。你在市政廳永遠都有一位朋友，朱迪。好了，再見!”

“謝謝您，女士。”朱迪說道。

牛局長強作笑顏，關(guān)上了門。他轉(zhuǎn)身面向朱迪，比先前更氣憤了：“我給你48個小時。”

“是!”朱迪大聲說道。

“兩天內(nèi)要找到艾米·奧獺頓。”

“好的。”

“要是失敗了，你就辭職。”

朱迪對他的提議感到不可思議。“哦，呃……”她思忖了一會兒，然后點了點頭。“好的……一言為定。”她說道。

“好極了。克勞豪瑟會把全部案宗都給你。”牛局長說道。

朱迪興奮地沖到前臺去取這份案宗。“給你!”克勞豪瑟把案宗遞給了她，滿心歡喜地說道，“一只失蹤的水獺!”

朱迪打開文件夾，頓時驚得張大了嘴巴。文件夾里只有一張紙。“就這些嗎?”她難以置信地問道。

“呀!這是我見過的信息最少的案宗!線索：無。目擊證人：無。而且你現(xiàn)在還沒加入計算機系統(tǒng)，所以資料：無。”克勞豪瑟咯咯地笑了起來。“我希望你沒有把前途押在破獲這起案件上。”他笑容滿面地說道。

朱迪一點兒也笑不出來?？藙诤郎Я艘豢谔鹛鹑Γ樾悸湓诹司碜诶锏恼掌?。

“最后一次看見……”她說著，看了看克勞豪瑟的甜甜圈碎屑下的那張照片。照片是道路交通探頭拍下的，上面顯示奧獺頓先生站在大街上。朱迪吹掉那些碎屑，發(fā)現(xiàn)了照片上的蛛絲馬跡。她瞇起了眼睛，依然看不清楚，就四周張望了一下。“借我用用那個。”她一把奪過克勞豪瑟的空蘇打水瓶子。朱迪透過瓶口望過去，利用瓶底的玻璃片來放大圖像。這下她看到了奧獺頓先生手里拿著一份冷飲。她仔細研究了一番，若有所思地說道：“梅花掌冰棍。”

“殺人兇器!”克勞豪瑟點著頭說道。

“來買梅花掌冰棍……”朱迪說著，回想起了尼克那件事。

“哦，因為……那是什么意思?”克勞豪瑟問道。

“那意味著我……有線索了。”說完，她出發(fā)了，留下克勞豪瑟坐在桌前，丈二和尚摸不著頭腦。