C: Excuse me, can the two of you please move. I want to get by.
A: Now I have to avoid being run over by a bicycle, too?
B: He's right! You are supposed to use the bike lane.
C: I certainly would if there weren't people walking in it.
A: That's no excuse not to follow the rules. Those pedestrians are just steering clear of all the reckless scooter drivers.
B: Sidewalks are for pedestrians!
C: Exactly. Plus, pedestrians have crosswalks which help people avoid accidents with vehicles.
A: I did use the crosswalk.
B: Maybe you did. But people jaywalk all the time.
A: What does that have to do with me?
B: So you never jaywalk?
C: I think the point is, people should think about others and not just themselves. Can't we all just share the road?
Language Lab
get by [phrasal verb] 走過去
1. To move past something, especially an obstacle or impediment of some kind.
- The hallway was jammed with boxes and it was hard to get by.
- All cars moved to the side of the road so the ambulance could get by.
to do enough or to do well enough to avoid failure
- Mark and his wife have three kids, and they can't get by on his salary alone.
- We can get by with the staff we have right now, but we need to hire more once we start the other project.
run over [phrasal verb]
run over (someone or something) or run (someone or something) over a:
to knock down and drive over or go over (someone or something)
- The dog was run over by a car.
- The running back ran over two defenders.
b: to read, repeat, or practice (something) quickly
- Let's run the lines over together one more time.
- Can you run over the instructions again?
- The driver dozed off and ran over a dog in the road.
- The girl almost got run over by a bus when she was crossing the road.
of a container: to have a liquid flow over its edge: overflow
- I forgot to turn off the tap, and the water ran over the edge of the sink and onto the floor.
steer clear of 避開
- The taxi driver steered clear of the traffic and got us to the train station in only 20 minutes.
- The doctor advised the patient to steer clear of salty food.
- As a rookie in our company, Bobby doesn't know how to steer clear of difficult colleagues yet.
: to keep away from someone or something completely
- He's in a bad mood.
- You'd better steer clear [=avoid him] if you don't want trouble.
— usually + of
- You'd better steer clear of him.
- I try to steer clear of the subject of politics when I talk to him.
- You'd better steer clear of him.
- I try to steer clear of the subject of politics when I talk to him.
jaywalk v. 不守交通規則橫穿馬路
to cross a street carelessly or at an illegal or dangerous place
- The police officer gave the man a ticket for jaywalking.
- The boy was hit by a scooter while jaywalking across a busy four lane street.
- Brenda didn't notice that she was jaywalking in middle of the street.
Info Cloud
jaywalking
Welcome to info cloud. Today, I want to talk about jaywalking and where this word comes from. Joe, do you jaywalk?
Well, technically jaywalking is anytime you cross the street while disregarding traffic was, so of course I try not to do that.
Joe is right. Jaywalking means to cross the street outside of crosswalks or against the light, or walking when the light says, don’t walk.
There was a time when the word jay was a rude way to describe an inexperienced person. It dates back to the early 1900s in the U S.
At first, the term was often used to describe early automobile drivers, within no which side of the road to drive on.
At the same time, jaywalkers were people who used the road without any awareness of the cars driving on the road.
As cars became the normal mode of transportation, people stopped using jay drivers, jaywalking however continued to be used.
Eventually, the term became specifically about how pedestrians cross roads and that is how we used the term today. It no longer has its original meaning of inexperience.
Actually, Joe and I should probably be honest about our jaywalking. Our main office and our recording studio are across the street from each other.
Right, you know I didn’t think about that. The entrance to the buildings are in the middle of the block, so if I run across the street, I am actually jaywalking.
