为孩子们提供更安全上学方式

短语讲解：

1. Her 75-year-old grandfather says he and Zhang's grandmother always worried about her safety.

worry about担忧, 烦恼
例句：He worried about how to make his living.
他为如何谋生发愁。

2. There are so many cars on the roads, and we were really concerned about her all the time.

be concerned about关心,挂念
例句：She is concerned about your safety.
她不放心你的安全。

3. When it was time for her to come home, we would stare at the alley's entrance until she showed up.

stare at盯, 凝视
例句：The little child stared at the toys in the shop-window.
那小孩盯着商店橱窗里的玩具。
show up到场, 出席,如约赶到,出现,露面
He showed up when we least expected him.
我们根本没有料到, 他竟然来了。

4. But with the start of the new school year, the school's new bus now picks up the students.

pick up安排接取; 使搭乘; 搭救
例句：Please wait at the school gate. John will pick you up there.
请在校门口等候, 约翰会到那里接你。

5. Eleven-year-old Zhang points at her seat on the bus and says

point at (把…)对准, 指向
例句：The guide pointed at a pagoda and told us that it was built hundreds of years ago.
导游指着一座宝塔, 告诉我们说这是数百年前修建的。

6. Local primary school students have nicknamed them "bumblebees," a moniker they borrowed from the movie "Transformers."

borrow from从…借入; 借用
例句：Japanese has borrowed heavily from English.
日语借用了很多英语词汇。

7. Eighty bumblebees are responsible for transporting more than 5,000 primary school students in the county to school and back home.

be responsible for负责…
例句：He is responsible for all sale.他负责全面销售。

8. It usually takes me 30 minutes to go to school on foot, and sometimes my mom takes me by electric bike.

on foot步行; 进行起来, 在筹划中
例句：Today they came here on foot.
今天他们走路来的。

9. With the local government subsidizing much of the funding for the project, every student now only needs to pay two yuan a day for the bus service.

pay for为…付钱
例句：I have to pay 150 dollars for the sewing machine.
我得花150美元买这台缝纫机。

10. School bus driver Li Yajun from Deqing County says they have to go through a strict training program organized by the government once every two months to ensure they operate the buses safely.

go through经历
例句：The country has gone through too many wars.
这个国家经历了太多的战争。