为什么要放下手机-使你走路时磕磕碰碰(2)

Put down your phone

 

放下手机

 

It makes you a less responsible pedestrian

 

使你走路时磕磕碰碰

 

Even if you aren't driving, your texting could be aliability to the people around you. A study in the British Medical Journal found that one in three people are distracted by mobile devices while walkingand that texting was the most distracting of all the mobile activities --including listening to music and talking on the phone.

 

The researchers observed more than 1,000 pedestriansduring rush hour in Seattle and recorded their phone habits and safety precautions as they crossed traffic junctions¹. They reported that textingpedestrians were almost four times more likely to ignore traffic lights, failto look both ways at a cross and to cross outside of the demarcated cross walk.

 

 

1 junctions   

联结点( junction的名词复数 )； 会合点； （公路或铁路的）交叉路口； （电缆等的）主结点

参考例句：

• Metals which were mutually soluble would tend to give strong junctions. 可互溶的金属趋向于产生牢固的结合点。
• Some adhering junctions are present as narrow bands connecting two cells. 有些粘附连接以一窄带的形式连接两个细胞。