13 No-Brainer

Chapter 13 NO-BRAINER It took less than two hours on I-85 and I-40 to make it to the eastern edge of Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina. Coke whiled away the time listening to music and gazing out the window. Pep wrote postcards to her friends back in California. As the miles rolled by, the freak accident in High Point began to recede from their minds. Dr. McDonald took exit 13A off the Raleigh Beltline toward downtown and made a left on Sunnybrook Road. From there it was a short distance to a parking lot outside a brick building with a sign out front. POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION

沿着85号州际公路和40号州际公路行驶不到两个小时就到达了北卡罗来纳州首府罗利的东部边缘。 科克听着音乐，望着窗外消磨时间。 佩普给她在加州的朋友写明信片。 随着时间的流逝，在高点发生的那起离奇的事故开始从他们的脑海中退去。 麦克唐纳博士从13A出口离开罗利环线往市中心走然后在森尼布鲁克路左转。 从那里到一个停车场不远，外面是一座砖砌建筑，前面有一个标志。 POE健康教育中心

"Health education?" Coke groaned, taking out his earbuds. "You gotta be kidding me! If you look in the dictionary for the word boring, I bet there's a picture of this place." "Oh, be quiet," Mrs. McDonald told him. "You're going to love this." Construction work was being done in the small parking lot, but finally Dr. McDonald found a spot big enough for the RV. The family had to dodge a backhoe and cherry picker to get to the front door of the Poe Center. "Would you like to see our walk-in brain?" asked the lady behind the front desk. "Certainly," said Mrs. McDonald. "That's why we're here." She pulled out her camera and notepad. "Walk-in brains are cool," Coke admitted. "Way cooler than brains you can't walk in," added Pep. Behind them was an enormous floor-to-ceiling gray human-shaped head that looked like it had poked its way up through the floor from

“健康教育?”科克哼了一声，拿出耳塞。 “你在开玩笑吧！”如果你在字典里查‘无聊’这个词，我敢打赌这里有一张照片。” “哦，安静点，”麦克唐纳太太对他说。 “你会喜欢这个的。” 小停车场里正在施工。 麦克唐纳找到了一个足够大的地方停放房车。 一家人不得不躲避挖土机和樱桃采摘机，才能到达坡中心的前门。 “你想看看我们的大脑吗？”前台后面的女士问。 “当然，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “这就是我们在这里的原因。”她拿出相机和记事本。 可口可乐承认：“大脑很酷。” “比你走不进去的大脑酷多了，”佩普补充道。 他们身后是一个巨大的灰色人形脑袋，从地板一直延伸到天花板，看起来像是从地板上钻出来的

below. "You can enter behind the ears," said the lady at the front desk. It was almost completely dark inside the big head. Then the brain started talking. "I'm sleeping," a voice said. "I'll be with you in a second." Suddenly two video screens flashed on where the back of the eyes would be. The McDonalds sat on benches and looked around to see sculpted red and blue blood vessels and veins running up and down the walls. They were pulsing, dimming, strobing, and changing colors. The faint sound of a heartbeat could be heard throbbing in the distance.

在下面。“你可以从耳朵后面进去，”前台的女士说。 大脑袋里几乎是一片漆黑。 然后大脑开始说话了。 “我在睡觉。”一个声音说。 “我马上就来。” 突然，两个视频屏幕闪现在眼睛后面的地方。 麦当劳的人坐在长凳上，环顾四周，看到红色和蓝色的雕刻血管和血管在墙上上下流动。 它们在跳动、变暗、频闪和变换颜色。 可以听到远处微弱的心跳声。

"Welcome to my brain," boomed a voice coming out of a hidden speaker system. Using 3-D rendered images, the brain explained how it works, grows, learns, and needs to be protected from injury. It was educational, but not in a way that made you want to get out of there as soon as possible. "Some reflexes are voluntary," the brain said, "while other reflexes—" At that moment, a bunch of colored Nerf balls came shooting out of holes in the walls and flying all over the inside of the brain. The McDonald family screamed as one. "—are involuntary." When the short video was over, the lights came up and the McDonalds were directed to exit through the ear on the other side of the head. Mrs. McDonald jotted down some notes for Amazing but True. Signs pointed to a room adjacent to the walk-in brain, where visitors could find TAM, which stands for Transparent Anatomical

“欢迎来到我的大脑，”一个声音从隐藏的扬声器系统中传来。 使用3d渲染图像，大脑解释了它是如何工作、成长、学习以及需要保护免受伤害的。 它是有教育意义的，但不是那种让你想尽快离开那里的方式。 “有些反射是自发的，”大脑说，“而另一些反射——”就在那一刻，一束彩色的Nerf球从墙上的洞里射出来，在大脑内部飞来飞去。 麦当劳一家人齐声尖叫。 “——无意识的。”当短视频结束时，灯光亮起，麦当劳被指示从头部另一侧的耳朵出口。 麦克唐纳太太在《神奇但真实》中草草记下了一些笔记。 指示牌指向一间与“步入式大脑”相邻的房间，游客可以在那里找到TAM （Transparent anatomy的缩写）

Mannequin. TAM is a life-size, slowly rotating statue of a woman, one foot slightly in front of the other and her arms out as if she was taking a bow. Oh, and you could see right through her skin. Half of TAM was muscles and blood, and the other half was bones. You could see her heart behind her ribs. "That face is creepy," Pep said, staring. "Look at the way her eyes bulge out." "My kidneys serve as a natural filter of my blood," TAM said through a video monitor a few feet away. "They remove wastes, which are diverted to my bladder." TAM's kidneys lit up so the twins could see where they were located on her body. Pep touched SMALL INTESTINE on the video screen, and it lit up while TAM talked about her small intestine. In all, TAM explained fifteen of her body parts. After each one, she would smile and wink. "That was cool," Coke said as they left the

人体模型。TAM是一个真人大小，缓慢旋转的女性雕像，一只脚稍微在另一只脚前面，双臂伸出，好像在鞠躬。 你还能看穿她的皮肤。 TAM的一半是肌肉和血液，另一半是骨骼。 你可以看到她肋骨后面的心脏。 “那张脸好吓人，”佩普瞪着眼睛说。 “看她眼睛凸出来的样子。” “我的肾脏是我血液的天然过滤器，”TAM通过几英尺外的视频监视器说。 “它们会排出废物，这些废物会流入我的膀胱。” TAM的肾脏亮了起来，这样双胞胎就能看到它们在她身上的位置。 佩普在视频屏幕上触摸了一下“小肠”，当TAM谈论她的小肠时，屏幕亮了起来。 TAM总共解释了她身体的15个部位。 每次吃完后，她都会微笑，眨眨眼。 “那太酷了，”当他们离开时，科克说

Poe Center. Mrs. McDonald allowed herself a secret smile. She had just been paid the ultimate compliment by her teenage son, and she knew that if she reacted in any way, the moment would be ruined. Next to the parking lot was a playground with a giant ear, a sliding board in the shape of a human tongue, and other apparatus involving the human body. Coke and Pep considered

坡的中心。麦克唐纳太太偷偷地笑了笑。 她十几岁的儿子刚刚给了她最高的赞美，她知道，如果她有任何反应，这一刻就会毁了。 停车场旁边是一个操场，操场上有一个巨大的耳朵，一个人类舌头形状的滑板，以及其他与人体有关的设备。 考虑可口可乐和Pep