雙語(yǔ)讀電影《怪獸大學(xué)》第04章 :這里就是怪獸大學(xué)的‘王冠之珠’

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Chapter 4

From that day on, Mike studied like a monster possessed. He read stacks of books, learned every scare technique, memorized scare flash cards, made his own flash cards, and got the best grades he could — because he wanted to be absolutely sure he’d be accepted into Monsters University.
Years passed, and one day, the envelope he’d been waiting for arrived. He tore it open and jumped for joy. He’d done it! He’d been accepted into the Scaring Program at MU!
It wasn’t long before Mike found himself on a bus again. “Monsters University!” the driver called out as the bus pulled to a stop. “Anyone getting off?”
Mike grabbed his bags and headed toward the door of the bus, beaming with pride. Before he went down the stairs, he turned to his fellow passengers. “Well, everyone, I don’t mean to get emotional, but everything in my life has led me to this moment. Let it not be just the beginning of my dream, but the beginning of all our dreams.” Then he addressed everyone on the bus individually. “Gladys? Promise me you’ll keep auditioning! Marie, Mr. Right is out there somewhere! Phil, just keep using the ointment until that thing goes away! I wish you all the best and thank you all so much!” Then, with a “woo-hoo!”, Mike bounded off the bus.
Moments later, Mike strolled through the gates of Monsters University and onto a campus of stately ivy-covered buildings. He walked to the main grassy area between buildings, called the quad, where students could meet and relax. A young monster on a skateboard whizzed by. A huge pink monster gingerly stepped over Mike as he made his way toward a stone bridge. Mike looked down and saw a class of sea monsters in an underwater section of the school. Everything was even better than he had imagined.
A monster in a “Smile Squad” T-shirt suddenly stepped up. “Hey there, freshman,” he said to Mike. “I’m Jay, and I’m here to say that registration is thataway! Have a great day!”
Mike headed to the registration table, where a smiling student said, “Hey, I’m Kay. Here’s your orientation packet, and you can get your picture taken with Trey!”
“Say ‘Hooray!’” Trey said.
“Hooray!” Mike shouted as Trey snapped his photo. Moments later, he looked at his new student ID. The picture only showed the top of his head, but Mike didn’t care. “I can’t believe it!” he said, thrilled. “I’m officially a college student!” He joined a group of freshmen taking a tour of the campus.
“Okay, everyone,” the student guide said. “I’m Fay, and I’ll be giving you your orientation tour on this perfect day!” Mike felt like he was in a dream. Everyone was so nice. The campus was so beautiful. He stared in disbelief as Fay led the freshmen into the School of Engineering.
“This is where students learn to design and build the doors to the human world,” she said, stopping at a lab. “Looks like the professor is about to test a door.”
The professor activated the door, and Mike gasped as he caught a glimpse into a human child’s bedroom. “And over here,” Fay continued, “is the crown jewel of Monsters University: the School of Scaring.” The rest of the group followed Fay, but Mike stayed behind for a moment, awed by the grandeur and history of the place.
“MU also has lots of super cool clubs and extracurricular!” Fay said as Mike caught up with the group. They passed a row of tables offering memberships with the debate team and the painting club.
A creature who was mostly one large eye popped up behind a table and stared at Mike. “Hey there,” the creature said. “Keep your eye in the sky at the astronomy club!” Mike quickly shook his head. He didn’t think it was for him.
Turning, he saw the Greek Council table. This council oversaw the university’s fraternities and sororities, social clubs whose names were based on letters of the Greek alphabet. Mike was about to pass the table by when he heard the Greek Council president say, “We sponsor the annual Scare Games.”
Mike’s head whipped around. “The scare what now?” he asked. The council president, a large purple-feathered creature, passed him a flyer.
“The Scare Games: a super-intense scaring competition,” the vice president told Mike. “They’re crazy dangerous, so anything could happen. And it’s worth it! You get to prove you’re the best.”
Mike stared at the flyer, intrigued. “Cool,” he said, and headed toward his dorm. He met the resident advisor, who handed him a key. “Wazowski,” the RA said. “Room three-nineteen. You know, your roommate is a scare major, too.”
Mike’s smile lit up the hallway. Clutching the key, he rushed down the hall, murmuring, “My lifelong best friend is right behind this door!” Mike took a deep breath and pushed the door open.
A lanky lizard in purple glasses leaped from the shadows with a friendly outstretched hand. “Hey there! I’m your roomie. Name’s Randy Boggs, scaring major.”
Mike replied happily, “Mike Wazowski, scaring major!”
Randy smiled. “I can tell we’re gonna be best chums, Mike. Take whichever bed you want. I wanted you to have first dibs!”
As Randy and Mike stood in the doorway, a student down the hall dropped a stack of boxes. Startled, Randy screamed and vanished. All Mike could see of him were his purple glasses. A second later, he reappeared.
“Sorry,” Randy said worriedly. “If I do that in scaring class, I’ll be a joke!”
“No,” Mike told him enthusiastically, “it’s totally great! You gotta use it. But lose the glasses, they give it away.” Randy took off his thick purple glasses and looked around, squinting his reptilian eyes.
Mike walked into the room, chose a side, and began hanging his collection of scaring posters, along with the Scare Games flyer he’d picked up earlier. Then he checked his list. “Okay. Unpack: check. Hang posters: check. Now I need to ace my classes, graduate with honors, and become the greatest Scarer ever.”
Randy shook his head. “Boy, I wish I had your confidence, Mike. Aren’t you even a little nervous?”
“Actually, no. I’ve been waiting for this my whole life,” Mike said, beaming. He pulled out the last item from his suitcase. It was the MU hat he’d gotten from the Monsters, Inc., Scarer when he was a kid. He placed it on the sill of the window that looked out onto the scaring school and smiled. “I just can’t wait to get started!”

第 4 章

從那天起，麥克就像著了魔似的拼命學(xué)習(xí)。他看了一摞又一摞書(shū)籍，學(xué)習(xí)每一個(gè)嚇人技巧，記住了所有嚇人閃卡上的知識(shí)點(diǎn)，還制作了自己的學(xué)習(xí)閃卡，盡自己最大的努力以取得好成績(jī)——因?yàn)樗_保自己能夠考上怪獸大學(xué)。
幾年過(guò)去了，終于有一天，麥克收到了他心心念念的信件。他撕開(kāi)信封，高興地跳了起來(lái)。他成功了！他被怪獸大學(xué)的驚嚇專業(yè)錄取了！
不久，麥克又一次坐上了校車。“怪獸大學(xué)！”司機(jī)一邊靠站停車，一邊大聲問(wèn)道，“有下車的嗎？”
麥克抓起書(shū)包，向車門(mén)奔去，一臉自豪的笑容。下車前，他轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)身對(duì)大家說(shuō)：“同學(xué)們，不是我要煽情，只是我之前所有的努力都是為了今天這一刻。希望此刻不僅僅是我個(gè)人夢(mèng)想的起點(diǎn)，更是大家夢(mèng)想的起點(diǎn)。” 接著他又分別向車廂里的每個(gè)人交代一番。“格拉迪斯，答應(yīng)我一定要繼續(xù)試鏡哦！瑪麗，你的真命天子肯定很快就會(huì)出現(xiàn)了！菲爾，你的病還沒(méi)好，藥膏千萬(wàn)別停！祝各位一切順利，謝謝大家！”接著，麥克“耶嘿”一聲，蹦跳著下了車。
不一會(huì)兒，麥克便慢悠悠地跨入了怪獸大學(xué)的校門(mén)，校園里到處是爬滿常春藤的宏偉建筑。他踏上大樓之間的主草坪，這片草坪叫作“四方坪”，是同學(xué)們會(huì)面和休息的場(chǎng)所。這時(shí)一只年輕的怪獸溜著滑板“嗖”的一下經(jīng)過(guò)他身旁；在去小石橋的路上，一只巨型的粉紅怪獸輕手輕腳地從他頭頂躍了過(guò)去。麥克低下頭，在學(xué)校的水下區(qū)域還看到了一群海怪獸。一切都比他想象的還要美好。
一只T恤上印有“微笑小分隊(duì)”字樣的怪獸突然迎了上來(lái)：“你好啊，新同學(xué)，我叫杰，報(bào)到處在那邊哦！祝你開(kāi)心！”
麥克來(lái)到報(bào)到臺(tái)，一個(gè)同學(xué)笑盈盈地說(shuō)道：“嗨，我叫凱，這是你的新生手冊(cè)包，然后到特里那兒去拍照！”
麥克擺好姿勢(shì)，特里說(shuō)：“來(lái)，喊‘茄子’！”
“茄子！”麥克咧開(kāi)嘴喊道，畫(huà)面被相機(jī)快門(mén)牢牢定格。很快，麥克就拿到了自己嶄新的學(xué)生證。照片只拍到麥克的頭頂，但他一點(diǎn)兒也不介意。“真是難以置信！”麥克激動(dòng)地說(shuō)道，“我是真正的大學(xué)生啦！”然后他就加入到一隊(duì)新生中，開(kāi)始參觀校園。
“好了，同學(xué)們，”學(xué)生向?qū)дf(shuō)道，“我叫費(fèi)伊，在這個(gè)美妙的日子，由我來(lái)帶大家參觀校園！”麥克覺(jué)得自己就像在做夢(mèng)一樣，每個(gè)人都如此友好，校園也是如此美麗。費(fèi)伊帶著新生們來(lái)到工程學(xué)院，一進(jìn)門(mén)，麥克立刻驚奇地瞪大了眼睛。
“這是實(shí)驗(yàn)室，同學(xué)們?cè)谶@兒學(xué)習(xí)如何設(shè)計(jì)并制造通往人類世界的大門(mén)，”她在一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)室前停了下來(lái)說(shuō)道，“看來(lái)教授正準(zhǔn)備對(duì)一扇門(mén)進(jìn)行測(cè)試。”
教授啟動(dòng)了大門(mén)，麥克從門(mén)縫里瞥見(jiàn)一間人類的兒童臥室，不由地倒吸一口氣。費(fèi)伊繼續(xù)向前走著說(shuō)道：“這里就是怪獸大學(xué)的‘王冠之珠’——驚嚇學(xué)院了。”其他新生紛紛跟著費(fèi)伊繼續(xù)向前，而麥克卻移不開(kāi)腳步，他被這里宏偉的景象和悠久的歷史深深震撼著。
之后麥克追上了隊(duì)伍，只聽(tīng)費(fèi)伊說(shuō)道：“怪獸大學(xué)還有很多很多超贊的社團(tuán)和課外活動(dòng)！”說(shuō)話間，他們經(jīng)過(guò)一排桌子，那是辯論隊(duì)和繪畫(huà)社在招新。
一只怪獸從其中一張桌子后面跳了出來(lái)，他的身體幾乎就是一只大眼睛。他盯著麥克招呼道：“嘿，你好！來(lái)天文社吧，天上可有看不完的東西！”麥克急忙搖搖頭，他覺(jué)得自己并不適合天文社。
轉(zhuǎn)角處是“希臘議會(huì)”招新的桌子。該議會(huì)掌管著學(xué)校的兄弟會(huì)和姐妹會(huì)，這些聯(lián)誼會(huì)的名字都取自希臘字母。麥克正要走過(guò)他們的桌位，只聽(tīng)見(jiàn)議會(huì)會(huì)長(zhǎng)說(shuō)道：“我們主辦一年一度的‘驚嚇杯’大賽。”
麥克立刻轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)頭問(wèn)：“驚嚇什么？”議會(huì)會(huì)長(zhǎng)是一只長(zhǎng)滿紫色羽毛的巨大怪獸，他遞給麥克一張宣傳單。
“‘驚嚇杯’是一個(gè)超級(jí)刺激的嚇人比賽，”副會(huì)長(zhǎng)向麥克解釋道，“比賽十分危險(xiǎn)，什么事都有可能發(fā)生，但卻非常值得一試！你將有機(jī)會(huì)向大家證明你是最棒的。”
麥克饒有興致地盯著宣傳單。“確實(shí)不錯(cuò)啊，”他一邊說(shuō)著一邊朝寢室走去。麥克找到住宿管理員，從他那里拿到了鑰匙。“華斯基，”管理員說(shuō)道，“你住319房間。知道嗎？你的室友也是驚嚇專業(yè)的。”
麥克的笑容點(diǎn)亮了整個(gè)走廊。他抓著鑰匙，在走廊里一邊跑一邊喃喃自語(yǔ)：“我一輩子的好朋友就在這扇門(mén)后了！”麥克深吸一口氣，推開(kāi)了房門(mén)。
一只又瘦又長(zhǎng)、戴著紫色眼鏡的蜥蜴從房間暗處跳了出來(lái)，友好地伸出手：“哥們兒，你好！我是你的室友，叫藍(lán)道·寶基，是驚嚇專業(yè)的。”
麥克高興地回答：“我叫麥克·華斯基，也是驚嚇專業(yè)的！”
藍(lán)道笑著說(shuō)：“麥克，我覺(jué)得我們一定會(huì)成為好兄弟的。你先挑床吧，想睡哪張就睡哪張！我把這個(gè)優(yōu)先權(quán)給你啦！”
藍(lán)道和麥克還站在門(mén)口，這時(shí)走廊里有個(gè)學(xué)生掉落了一堆盒子。藍(lán)道被嚇得尖叫起來(lái)，瞬間沒(méi)了蹤影。麥克只能看見(jiàn)他的紫色眼鏡依舊飄浮在空中。很快，藍(lán)道又出現(xiàn)了。
“不好意思啊，”藍(lán)道苦惱地說(shuō)，“如果我在驚嚇課上這么做，一定會(huì)被笑話的！”
“不會(huì)啊，”麥克熱情地告訴他，“這棒極了！你該好好利用這種能力。不過(guò)得先把眼鏡摘了，不然就露餡啦。”藍(lán)道摘下他那副厚重的紫色眼鏡，朝四周看了看，又瞇起眼睛。
麥克走進(jìn)房間，挑了一張床，開(kāi)始把自己收藏的驚嚇海報(bào)連同他剛剛拿到的那張“驚嚇杯”的宣傳單往墻上貼。接著他核對(duì)了一下自己的備忘錄：“好啦。收拾行李：搞定。掛海報(bào)：搞定?，F(xiàn)在我要做的就是：門(mén)門(mén)得A，光榮畢業(yè)，成為史上最厲害的驚嚇專員。”
藍(lán)道搖搖頭說(shuō)：“老天，我真希望能有你這份自信，麥克。老實(shí)說(shuō)，你真的一點(diǎn)兒也不緊張嗎？”
“說(shuō)實(shí)話，一點(diǎn)兒也不。我等這一天等了一輩子了，”麥克笑容滿面地說(shuō)道。他從箱子里拿出最后一樣?xùn)|西，那是頂怪獸大學(xué)的帽子，是他小時(shí)候從怪獸電力公司的驚嚇專員那里得到的。他把帽子放在窗臺(tái)上，透過(guò)窗戶望著驚嚇學(xué)院，臉上露出一絲微笑：“我都等不及想要開(kāi)學(xué)啦！”

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