英文原版对话1000个:970 Foot Traffic

Tu: Do you travel by car in Iran?

Amir: Well, you know, when I was in Iran it was just like your case. I felt like this is natural. This is how I saw the traffic. This was how it is supposed to work. When you go abroad, and like me right now, I'm living abroad, then I go back to Iran, I cannot drive with the flows again just like before. It is very difficult for me. At first, I become very much like foreigners and get mad at every mistake, you know, every illegal¹ moves you know, other Iranians are doing, so but after awhile I get the hang of it, so then I learn how to really my get work done.

Tu: Well, actually, one more thing is how do people cross the road in Iran?

Amir: Well, actually, the government has built very good infrastructure², so we have this, you know, this pass-way that you can walk, you know, and cross the streets, but well, it really depends on how much these rules are now implemented³, and how people really feel like ...

Tu: Following it.

Amir: Following it. Yeah.

Tu: Well, actually, one thing in Vietnam⁴, one thing typical to Vietnamese traffic is people cross the road anyway they want.

Amir: Yeah.

Tu: We don't go with them. Yeah, what do you call it? The white one? The zebra? Like the crossing line? We don't cross?

Amir: Ah, crosswalk!

Tu: Yeah, yep, that one. We don't cross the road there. We just cross the road whenever we want and wherever we want.

Amir: Oh, I see. So what happens in case of an accident, if the car hits a passerby⁵?

Tu: You know, actually, one of the amazing things is we never got hit by that.

Amir: Never?

Tu: And foreigners look amazed⁶ at it. Like, they just can't believe it. They just don't know why. How come people cross the road without ... but actually we just look slowly, slowly, one-by-one, and we even cross in front of a car. It's pretty normal for us. It's easy though if you get used to it
 

1 illegal   

adj.不合法的，非法的，犯法的

参考例句：

• I don't want to get mixed up with any illegal organization.我不想与任何非法组织有牵连。
• It's illegal for people under 17 to drive a car in Britain.在英国，不满17岁的人驾驶车辆是违法的。

2 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

3 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

4 Vietnam   

n.越南

参考例句：

• Vietnam is suffering from food shortage.越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。
• Laos is on the west of Vietnam.老挝在越南西面。

5 passerby   

n.过路人，行人

参考例句：

• We had our photo taken by a passerby.我们请了一个路人为我们照相。
• A passerby heard her screams and rushed to her aid.一个过路人听见她的尖叫，便冲过去帮助她。

6 amazed   

adj.吃惊的，惊奇的v.使大为吃惊，使惊奇( amaze的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Just the size of the place amazed her. 仅仅地方之大就使她十分惊奇。
• I was amazed at her knowledge of French literature. 她的法国文学知识之丰富使我大为惊奇。