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2020考研英语时事阅读:电动滑板车—“马路杀手”

Barely a few months after they were introduced in several of Europe's storied capital cities, the great electric scooter backlash has already begun. From Paris to Berlin and to Copenhagen, drunken users and poorly parked scooters have provoked the kind of visceral hatred that became synonymous with the dockless scooters' arrival in American cities last year.

The mayor of Paris already vowed to put an end to what she called a trend "not far from anarchy" on the roads of the French capital last month. That was before their introduction in neighboring Germany, where newspapers have since captured a nation in crisis: a man trying to steer his e-scooter onto a high-speed motorway, reports of scores of drunk e-scooter drivers and polls showing a deeply divided country.

But supporters of e-scooters say that the initial woes can be overcome and are outweighed by the potential benefits. They hope that the electric scooters will help reduce the number of cars in congested European cities that were designed long before the advent of motorized vehicles. In less densely populated areas, e-scooters could fill gaps in public transport networks, proponents say.

文本选自：The Washington Post(华盛顿邮报)

 

【单词】

scooter

英 [ˈskuːtə(r)] 美 [ˈskuːtər]

n. 小型摩托车;(儿童)滑板车

vow

英 [vaʊ] 美 [vaʊ]

n. (尤指宗教的)誓，誓言，誓约

v. 起誓;立誓;发誓

anarchy

英 [ˈænəki] 美 [ˈænərki]

n. 无政府状态;混乱;无法无天

proponent

英 [prəˈpəʊnənt] 美 [prəˈpoʊnənt]

n. 倡导者;支持者;拥护者

 

【译文】

电动滑板车在欧洲几个著名的首都城市推出仅仅几个月，就引发了人们对电动滑板车的强烈反对。从巴黎到柏林，再到哥本哈根，醉酒的用户和停放不良的滑板车引发了一场发自肺腑的憎恨，这种憎恨已成为去年无桩停放滑板车来到美国城市的代名。

巴黎市长上个月已经郑重宣告要结束她所说的巴黎街头“离混乱态不远”的趋势。那是在电动滑板车在邻国德国推出之前，德国的报纸已经报道了一个处于(电动滑板车)危机中的国家:一名男子试图驾驶他的电动滑板车上高速公路，大量醉酒的电动滑板者的报道，以及民意调查显示这个国家(对电动滑板车)存在严重分歧。

但电动滑板车的支持者表示，最初的困难可以克服，潜在的好处超过困难。他们希望电动滑板车能够帮助减少欧洲交通拥挤城市的汽车数量，这些城市早在机动车辆出现之前就设计好了(这种理念)。支持者说，在人口密度较低的地区，电动滑板车可以填补公共交通网络的空白。

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