雙語讀電影 《頭腦特工隊》第06章 :所有的核心記憶球都掉了出來

Chapter  6
Don’t worry,” said Joy. “I got this.” She stepped in and pushed a lever on the console.
Riley smiled as she stood up and spoke to the class. “My name is Riley Anderson,” she said. “I’m from Minnesota. And now I live here.”
“And how about Minnesota?” the teacher asked. “Can you tell us something about it? Well, you certainly get a lot more snow than we do,” she said.
Joy slapped her knee and laughed. “She’s hilarious!” she said, turning a lever on the console.
Riley smiled as she told the class about Minnesota. She told them about the lake and how it froze over in the winter. She talked about being on an ice hockey team called the Prairie Dogs and playing with her friend Meg. Joy recalled a memory of the family skating together and played it on the screen.
Riley smiled, thinking about the memory, and continued to talk about playing hockey and how it was a family tradition. But then something very strange happened… the image on the screen that the Emotions were watching turned BLUE.
Riley’s smile faded and her brow furrowed. Suddenly, she felt very sad. Joy and the other Emotions looked around confused until their eyes landed on Sadness, who was guiltily touching the memory sphere, which had also turned blue.
“Sadness!” Joy said, shocked. “You touched a memory!”
“Oh yeah, I know. I’m sorry,” Sadness said.
“Get back in your circle,” Joy snapped. Then she tried to eject the memory, but it wouldn’t come out!
“Get it out of there, Joy!” Fear shouted.
“Cool kids whispering at three o’clock,” Disgust said, pointing to the screen.
Inside the classroom, Riley was sniffling and some of the kids were whispering. “Did you see that look?” Fear said, panicking. “They’re judging us!”
Joy, Fear, Anger, and Disgust all tried to get the memory out, but it wouldn’t budge. Riley’s eyes welled up with tears as she continued. “But everything’s different now,” she said. “Since we moved…” Her voice trailed off and she was unable to speak.
“Oh no!” Fear shouted. “We’re CRYING AT SCHOOL!”
Joy turned to the console to see SADNESS DRIVING! “What? No!” she shouted. Finally, she yanked the memory out and pulled Sadness off the controls. PING! A new memory had been created, and it was bright blue.
“Whoa!” Anger said.
“It’s a core memory!” Fear shouted in awe.
“But it’s blue!” Disgust said.
The bright blue memory rolled down the track as the core memory holder whirred into action. “No, wait!” Joy said, trying to stop it. She jumped and slapped her hand on the holder, popping the memory up and grabbing it. Then she leaned over and pressed the end-of-day Memory Dump button, causing the vacuum tube to come down from the ceiling. Joy got ready to send the blue core memory up, hoping it would be like it had never existed!
“Joy, no,” Sadness said, running to save the memory.
“That’s a core memory!”
“Hey! Stop it,” Joy said.
As the two struggled over the bright blue sphere, they bumped into the core memory holder and all the core memories fell out! Fear, Anger, and Disgust screamed as the Islands of Personality went DARK.
Joy quickly tossed the blue memory aside and scrambled as she tried to collect the core memories rolling around the floor like marbles. Sadness snatched up the blue core memory and moved to place it in the core memory holder, but Joy lunged and caused it to slip out of her hands. Then the powerful suction from the vacuum started to suck the blue core memory up through the tube!
Joy tumbled backward and dropped the memories she had gathered. Then the suction began to pull one of the gold core memories toward the tube. “No, no, no, no!” Joy shouted. She reached in to try to grab the memory and was sucked up with it! The intense suction pulled Sadness in, too!
Fear, Anger, and Disgust watched helplessly as Joy, Sadness, and the core memories were vacuumed up into the tube!
Back in the classroom, the teacher thanked Riley for sharing. Riley wiped her tears away as she sat down and awkwardly buried her head in her book.
Meanwhile, Joy and Sadness rocketed through the vacuum tube, clutching the core memories. Because they had never been out of Headquarters, they looked around in awe at parts of Riley’s Mind World. As everything outside raced by, they couldn’t help wondering: Where were they going to end up?