Don’t be a phubber

維明路小學 張麗娜

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.

有消息說從2017年10月25日開始，在夏威夷首府檀香山，橫穿馬路時發短信或使用手機將被視為非法。換句話說，如果你堅持這么做，你會受到懲罰。

有人給檀香山政府的舉措點贊，也有人表達了不滿。

危險無處不在。有些危險不可預測，有些則可以避免，只要我們稍加留心。但現實是人們無視它的存在或不把它當回事，直到不好的事情發生。

我們經常聽說某人因為錯誤使用手機或者其他電子設備受傷或者喪命。但只要事情發生不到我們自己頭上，就總認為危險離我們很遙遠。

當你橫穿馬路或行走于其他地方，注意力集中在手機上時（發信息、接打電話、查看QQ或者微信），你把你自己還有他人放在了一個危險的境地。

Notes:

phubber低頭族，指在社交場合不關注身邊的人,跟人聊天時老忍不住看手機的人。

illegal非法的；不合法的。

give（sb.）thumbs up 為某人點贊。

unpredictable不可預測的；難料的。

evitable可以避免的。

odds可能性；幾率。

gadget小器械；小型設備。

Hawaii夏威夷。

Honolulu火奴魯魯（檀香山），夏威夷首府。