安全重要还是点赞重要? 走路时请别看手机

Texting pedestrians aren't just an annoyance to their fellow walkers, Australian researchers armed with movie special-effects technology have determined scientifically: They're a menace to themselves.
边走路边发讯息不仅会令身边的同伴感到恼火，澳大利亚研究人员运用电影特效技术进行研究后发现，这种行为还会威胁自身安全。

Using motion-capture technology similar to that used for films such as 'The Hobbit, ' University of Queensland researchers concluded that texting while walking not only affects balance and the ability to walk in a straight line, but can actually damage a texter's posture.
通过运用类似《霍比特人》(The Hobbit)等电影中的动作捕捉技术，昆士兰大学(University of Queensland)研究人员发现，走路时发讯息不仅会影响平衡感和直线行走的能力，而且还会损害人的身体姿态。

'I was checking emails while walking to work this morning, ' confessed study co-author Wolbert van den Hoorn. 'But it has a serious impact on the safety of people who type or read text while walking.'
此项研究撰写人之一的范登霍恩(Wolbert van den Hoorn)坦白说：今天早上我在走来上班的路上查看了电子邮件。但这种一边走路、一边打字或阅读的习惯十分不安全。

Anecdotes back him up. A tourist from Taiwan walked off a pier near Melbourne last month while checking Facebook--bringing an abrupt, and icy, end to a penguin-watching visit. The video-sharing website YouTube is a trove of people too wrapped up in their phones to notice obstacles--like the fountain one U.S. shopping-mall visitor walked straight into.
一些轶闻佐证了他的观点。上个月，一位来自台湾的游客在翻看Facebook时走下了墨尔本附近的一座码头，给自己的观赏企鹅之旅画上了一个突然而又冰冷的句号。在视频分享网站YouTube上，可以搜索到许多人盯着手机结果忽视了前方障碍的视频，比如在美国一家商场内，一个行人直冲冲地走进了一个喷泉里。

And as mobile-phone use has grown--to about 77% of the world's population, the study says--so has the number of phone-related accidents. The number of U.S. emergency-room visits linked to phone use on the move doubled to as many as 1, 500 between 2005 and 2010, an Ohio State University study recently showed.
如今全世界的手机用户数量已增长至世界总人口的77%左右，然而该研究显示，伴随着这一比例的上升，手机相关事故的数量也在增多。俄亥俄州立大学(Ohio State University)最近的一项调查显示，在2005年至2010年间，美国急诊室内接收的因行走时使用手机而受伤的病例数量增长了一倍，达1,500例。