unit3outofstep課文翻譯綜合教程三(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 door.11 I asked her why she didn’t walk to the gym and do six minutes less on the treadmill.12 She looked at me as if I were tragically simpleminded and said, “But I have a program for the treadmill. It records my distance and speed and calorie burn rate, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.”13 I confess it had not occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard.14 According to a concerned and faintly horrified 1997 editorial in the Boston Globe, the United States spent less than one percent of its transportation budget on facilities for pedestrians. Actually, I’m surprised it was that much. Go to almost any suburb developed in the last 30 years, and you will not find a sidewalk anywhere. Often you won’t find a single pedestrian crossing.15 I had this brought home to me one summer when we were driving across Maine and stopped for coffee in one of those endless zones of shopping malls, motels, gas stations and fastfood places. I noticed there was a bookstore across the street, so I decided to skip coffee and head over.16 Although the bookshop was no more than 70 or 80 feet away, I discovered that there was no way to cross on foot without dodging over six lanes of swiftly moving traffic. In the end, I had to get in our car and drive across.17 At the time, it seemed ridiculous and exasperating, but afterward I r
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