Watch Where You Walk! 走路要看路1

Look where you are going, not at your phone!看清方向，不要看手機！

In January Cathy Cruz Marrero was walking through a mall in Pennsylvania, texting on her phone. She wasn’t watch where she was going, so she tripped and fell into a fountain! Luckily only her pride was hurt – she quickly climbed out and walked away. But the embarrassment didn’t end there. Her accident was caught on mall cameras and posted on YouTube. The video was viewed almost 2 million times and received national attention. 

Marrero was angry and ashamed, but she learned her lesson: Texting while walking is dangerous. “I could have been walking into a bus, a car, …anything,” she said. Marrero may be famous for her mistake, but she isn’t the only one who’s taken a tumble while texting. In 2008 more than 1,000 pedestrians in America visited hospitals for similar reasons. They were walking and texting or talking on cellphones when, suddenly, a wall appeared! Or a hole … a street sign … a train. There were cuts, bumps, broken bones and worse.

text

fountain 噴水池

embarrassment

ashamed

pedestrian

【More information】

A professor and his class at Western Washington University did an experiment. They wanted to see what people notice when they are using a cell phone. So one student dressed as a clown and rode a unicycle around a crowded campus square. Then they asked students who walked through the square what they saw. Only 25 percent of the students who were using cell phone remembered seeing the clown!

【Chat room】

pride驕傲、自大

Pride goes before the fall. 驕者必敗

Be careful. Pride goes before the fall.

pride自尊心

swallow his pride 忍氣吞聲

【Key word】

text發簡訊

David will text me his e-mail address later.

David等會將會把他的電子信箱傳簡訊給我

The boy was caught texting during class.

這個男孩被抓到上課傳簡訊

text 名詞：本文、正文

The text and the graphs of the report are over 50 pages long.

這個報告本文加上圖表總共超過50頁

pedestrian行人

The streets are only open to pedestrians during weekends.

pedestrian 也可以當形容詞：給行人使用的

pedestrian walk

pedestrian crossing 行人穿越道

bump碰撞而引起的腫塊

The boy tripped over a stone, and had a big bump on his knee.

這個男孩被石頭拌倒了，膝上腫了一塊大包。

bump撞擊

A bump from the truck caused the driver to be hospitalized for two weeks.

卡車這一撞讓這名駕駛，住院住了兩個星期。