所谓的慢车道生活，你知道是什么样的吗?_大学英语阅读

所谓的慢车道生活，你知道是什么样的吗?

This is my way of pushing back against the relentlessly increasing pace of our high-intensity, on-demand society.

Think of it as the automotive equivalent of a trail ride. When you saddle up for an equestrian excursion, you don’t race across the countryside at a full gallop. It’s much nicer to mosey along and find pleasure in the journey.

Let me be clear about one crucial point: I would never, ever try to impose my personal commitment to mild motoring on anyone else.

I’m careful to pursue it only in private moments so as not to anger or annoy other motorists. They do their thing; I do my thing (when conditions permit).

“You’re the only person I know,” one friend said, “who waits until no one else is around so you can drive below the speed limit.” Is it possible I’m the only person in America with this particular passion? All I can say in response is that we humans often do strange things for love, and my emotions aren’t likely to change.

When I’m in the driver’s seat, with nothing but wide-open blacktop in both directions, 35 m.p.h. is the velocity of Cupid’s arrow.

Vocabulary

1. slow lane: 慢车道。

2. golf course: 高尔夫球场。

3. era: 时代，时期;commercial: (电视或电台的)商业广告;budget: 预算;constantly: 持续不断地，重复地;glorify: 吹捧，美化;supercharged: (汽车引擎)增压的，提高功率的;roaring: 轰鸣的，发出巨响的;tire: 轮胎;high-octane: 激动人心的，富有活力的。