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随身英语 Why do cities make us rude? 为什么城市会让人变得无礼？ Play audio file 避免眼神交流、践踏私人空间等等，这些是不是城市居民粗鲁行为的范例？我们生活在钢筋混凝土建成的城市当中，是否已经不知不觉地变得心烦意乱、焦躁不安？本集《随身英语》探讨城市居民容易感到烦躁的因素。 课文内容 Vocabulary: Human behaviour 词汇：人类行为 I count myself lucky to live in the relative calm of the countryside, a safe distance away from the chaos and claustrophobia of city life. However, I have to venture into the urban jungle every day to work and it's then that I realise how rude city dwellers can be. Maybe I'm being unfair. Not everyone comes from the city – many of us commute from somewhere else and, together with a large number of tourists, we are all squeezed into this small space – so it's no surprise that we get irritable and hot under the collar. Competing for a space on the tube train or bus is only one of the reasons that makes us grumpy. Our rush to get into the office and home again means we have no time to make conversation with other people: we are driven by efficiency. Thomas Farley, writer and broadcaster explains that "we’re in a rush, we’re off to a meeting, to a luncheon… and I don’t think it’s a bad thing, I just think we need to be mindful that it’s not a deliberate disregard or somebody’s trying to be rude on purpose." So we are not trying to be rude, we just have something important on our mind to think about. | 
