每日英語 #132: Walking and Talking
Walking and Talking
Have you become angry when the person in front of you is walking too slowly? Have you ever thought, “Get off your phone and walk faster!”? Congratulations! You may have PAS - Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome.
你是否曾因前面的人走得太慢而感到憤怒？你是否曾想過，「別玩手機了，走快點！」？恭喜你！你可能患有行人攻擊症候群（Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome，PAS）。
What is Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome? A “pedestrian” is someone who is walking; “aggressiveness” is when you are very forceful in a mean or unkind way; and a “syndrome” is a type of mental disease.
什麼是行人攻擊症候群？「Pedestrian」是指走路的人；「Aggressiveness」是指一種帶有惡意或不友善的強勢行為；而「Syndrome」則是指一種精神疾病。
PAS, also called sidewalk “rage” (anger), is when people get really mad at other people because of the way they are walking down the street, similar to “road rage” for those in cars.
行人攻擊症候群，也叫做人行道憤怒症，指的是人們因他人走路的方式而非常生氣，這類似於開車族的「路怒症」。
The City of New York actually measured how fast different types of people walked down the streets of Manhattan, the main business district of the city, and found the following average walking speeds, from fastest to slowest:
紐約市實際測量了不同類型的人在曼哈頓街頭的步行速度，並發現以下從最快到最慢的平均步行速度：
- Headphone listeners – 4.64 feet per second (fps) 戴耳機的人 – 每秒 4.64 英尺
- Men – 4.42 fps 男性 – 每秒 4.42 英尺
- People going to work – 4.41 fps 上班族 – 每秒 4.41 英尺
- People with bags – 4.27 fps 背包的人 – 每秒 4.27 英尺
- Average person – 4.27 fps 平均步行者 – 每秒 4.27 英尺
- Cell phone users – 4.20 fps 使用手機的人 – 每秒 4.20 英尺
- Smokers – 4.17 fps 吸煙者 – 每秒 4.17 英尺
- Women – 4.10 fps 女性 – 每秒 4.10 英尺
- Tourists – 3.79 fps 遊客 – 每秒 3.79 英尺
- “Large” people (tall; fat) – 3.74 fps 體型較大的人（高大；肥胖）– 每秒 3.74 英尺
- Over 65 years old – 3.63 fps 65歲以上的人 – 每秒 3.63 英尺
The city found that people tend to walk more slowly than average when smoking (2.3% slower) and talking on a cell phone (1.6% slower), while people with headphones (for example, listening to music) walk 9% faster than average. Tourists – no surprise – walk 11% slower.
城市的研究發現，吸煙者比平均速度慢2.3%，使用手機的人慢1.6%，而戴耳機的人（例如聽音樂）則比平均快9%。毫不意外，遊客的步行速度慢了11%。
重要單字
- 1. Pedestrian - 行人 / [pəˈdɛstriən]
- 2. Aggressiveness - 攻擊性 / [əˈɡrɛsɪvnɪs]
- 3. Syndrome - 症候群 / [ˈsɪndroʊm]
- 4. Rage - 憤怒 / [reɪdʒ]
- 5. Headphone - 耳機 / [ˈhɛdˌfoʊn]
- 6. Tourist - 遊客 / [ˈtʊrɪst]
