Don’t be a phubber

维明路小学 张丽娜

Here is news that since October 25,2017,in Honolulu,the capital city of Hawaiiit will be illegal texting or using a gadget while crossing the street.In other words,if you insist doing like that,you will be punished.

Some give the Honolulu government thumbs up.Some shake their heads to show their disagreement.

Dangers hide around us.Some are unpredictable,but most are evitable if we give them a little attention.The odds are people are more likely not to realize the existence of dangers or refuse to take them seriously until something bad happens.

We often hear people get themselves hurt or killed because of the wrongly using of a phone or an electric device.But it seems miles away as long as we don’t experience it for person.

When your focus is on your phone or other gadget,texting,making oranswering a call,checking messages from QQ or Wechat while crossing the street or traveling in other places,you are possibly putting yourself and others in a dangerous situation.

有消息说从2017年10月25日开始，在夏威夷首府檀香山，横穿马路时发短信或使用手机将被视为非法。换句话说，如果你坚持这么做，你会受到惩罚。

有人给檀香山政府的举措点赞，也有人表达了不满。

危险无处不在。有些危险不可预测，有些则可以避免，只要我们稍加留心。但现实是人们无视它的存在或不把它当回事，直到不好的事情发生。

我们经常听说某人因为错误使用手机或者其他电子设备受伤或者丧命。但只要事情发生不到我们自己头上，就总认为危险离我们很遥远。

当你横穿马路或行走于其他地方，注意力集中在手机上时（发信息、接打电话、查看QQ或者微信），你把你自己还有他人放在了一个危险的境地。

Notes:

phubber低头族，指在社交场合不关注身边的人,跟人聊天时老忍不住看手机的人。

illegal非法的；不合法的。

give（sb.）thumbs up 为某人点赞。

unpredictable不可预测的；难料的。

evitable可以避免的。

odds可能性；几率。

gadget小器械；小型设备。

Hawaii夏威夷。

Honolulu火奴鲁鲁（檀香山），夏威夷首府。