首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Emma Way did not become a figure of contempt for British cyclists because she nudged Toby Hockley off his bicycle and into a hed
Emma Way did not become a figure of contempt for British cyclists because she nudged Toby Hockley off his bicycle and into a hed
admin
2015-01-02
34
问题
Emma Way did not become a figure of contempt for British cyclists because she nudged Toby Hockley off his bicycle and into a hedge as she drove past him on a country lane on May 19. No, she achieved that infamy by confessing to her crime online. "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier," Way, 22, tweeted after the collision that left Hockley, 29, with a bruised body and the status of a martyr for Britain’s cyclists. "I have right of way—he doesn’t even pay road tax!" She ended with a hash tag popular with tweeting British motorists: bloody cyclists.
It was the tweet heard around the roads of Britain and it.resulted in Way’s being convicted in November of driving offenses, losing her job as a trainee accountant and acknowledging in court that the comment rated "11 out of 10" on the stupidity scale. In an interview on national television after her conviction, she noted that since the story broke, she had been cyberbullied and had received "malicious communications. " What she did not say was that she was sorry for knocking Hockley, a chef, off his bike. "I was quite angry at the mannerism of the cyclist on the road", she said. "My point of view is that he was on my side of the road—that’s not the way you drive. "
Way to stoke the fire, Ms. Way. By continuing to pin the blame for the incident on the cyclist, the young driver fell further into an already considerable chasm that divides modern Britain. The BBC last year featured an hourlong documentary—with lots of footage of raging cyclists and cab drivers—whose title explained the situation succinctly: War on Britain’s Roads.
It wasn’t entirely an exaggeration: people are dying in this conflict between cyclists and drivers. London in November seemed like a particularly dangerous place for the two-wheeled combatants. Six cyclists were killed in less than two weeks, a mounting toll chronicled in increasingly mournful headlines. Six in a few days is a lot; the total killed this year in Britain’s capital is 14. The deaths sparked a bout of public recrimination. When London’s Mayor Boris Johnson, himself a cyclist, appeared less than sympathetic after the fifth death—he told a radio host that some of the dead cyclists "have taken decisions that really did put their lives in danger"—he was transformed from cycling champion to heartless pro-car politician and joined Way as a target of the particularly passionate fury that cyclists can muster.
The anger has become political in Britain, as it has in many countries whose governments encourage citizens to cycle rather than drive to work, to lessen the impact on the environment and on traffic. Johnson has arguably done more than any previous politician for London cyclists, establishing a $ 1. 6 billion fund to make cycling safer in the city and appointing London’s first cycling commissioner. Even though the number of cyclist deaths in London has been dropping steadily in the past two decades, the demand from cyclists for the city to adapt grows as the number of bikes on the road grows. As does the particularly passionate fury that cyclists can muster.
Whether or not Johnson is right that some of the cyclists who died recently were breaking the law, all of us make a very personal decision about risking our lives by getting on our bikes. And we should know that when we ignore red lights to get ahead of the traffic, or get too close to trucks or buses because we feel it’s our right to be there, then we are making a mistake even dumber than Emma Way’s tweet. In the war of the cyclist vs. the driver, the driver will nearly always come out alive. Less so the cyclist.
According to the passage, who had been cyberbullied and had received malicious communications?
选项
A、Toby Hockley.
B、Boris Johnson.
C、Emma Way.
D、A cycling commissioner.
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/H0QYFFFM
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
Awriterwhowantstoconvincehisreadersofapointofviewmustmarshallhisarguments,assertthevirtuesofhisopinions,a
Aweekafterherhusband’smysteriouslost,Sarareceivedananonymousletterwithastringofnumberonthebackoftheenvelop
Aneditorhastoblue-pencilallthesuperfluouswordsinthewritingheisediting.
Cybercrime’Lovebug’virus,hackattacksanddatatheft,peoplenowadaysarequitefamiliarwiththosewords,astheyareo
Cybercrime’Lovebug’virus,hackattacksanddatatheft,peoplenowadaysarequitefamiliarwiththosewords,astheyareo
Cybercrime’Lovebug’virus,hackattacksanddatatheft,peoplenowadaysarequitefamiliarwiththosewords,astheyareo
Theonlineshopaimstofilteroutallofthechemicalsandvenomoussubstancesthatgointomanysupplements,replacingthemwi
A、Inexpensiveandnice.B、Justso-so.C、Notsatisfactory.D、Indecentandexpensive.C
A、Formerschoolmates.B、Colleagues.C、Bossandsecretary.D、Neighbors.A
随机试题
尾矿库的排洪方式及布置应根据地形、地质条件、洪水总量、调洪能力、回水方式及水质要求、操作条件与使用年限等因素,经技术经济比较确定。下列关于尾矿库排洪系统的说法中正确的是()。
右主支气管的结构特点是()
A.仰卧位,垫肩头过伸B.侧卧位C.仰卧位,双肩尽量下拉D.仰卧位,下颏尽量内收E.俯卧位,垫头尽量使脊柱伸直全中枢神经系统进行放射治疗时,常用体位是
下列哪种黏液囊肿大多数具有上皮衬里
甲公司向乙银行借款,并以其所持有的某上市公司的股权用于质押。根据《物权法》的规定,该质权设立的时间是()。
中央银行发行1年期央行票据进行公开市场业务操作对应的有()。
货运代理的佣金按国际航运惯例为运费的______左右。
中国的美术批评自占就有,南齐谢赫在《画品》序言中就说:“夫画品者,盖众画之优劣也。图绘者,莫不明劝诫、著升沉,千载寂寥,披图可鉴。”美术批评的核心是公正,________,不以人废艺,也不以艺废人。邹凌能很好地奉行这一原则,比如在《略谈当前美术批评的公信力
一棵二叉树中共有80个叶子结点与70个度为1的结点,则该二叉树中的总结点数为
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessayentitledTheImprovementofLifeinaRuralFamilyinChina.Youres
最新回复
(
0
)