外媒：电子商务带来便利快递交通安全等问题也不容忽视_BEC初级作文

外媒：电子商务带来便利快递交通安全等问题也不容忽视

champion ['tʃæmpɪən]：vt.支持；拥护

brick-and-mortar store：实体店

The industry has grown exponentially since those early days, however. Between 2009 and 2018, the number of parcels delivered by the US Postal Service doubled to 6.2 billion annually. The mountains of cardboard in apartment trash rooms are proof: In New York, roughly four in 10 residents receive at least one delivery per week.

然而，从早期开始这一行业就在快速发展。自2009年至2018年，美国邮政局投递的包裹数量翻了一番，达到每年62亿个。公寓垃圾处理室里堆积如山的纸板就是明证：在纽约，大约四成的居民每周至少收到一份快递。

exponentially [ˌekspəʊˈnenʃəlɪ]：adv.以指数方式

And many packages are sent to offices rather than homes, during peak business hours. In Germany, freight transportation accounts for only 30% of all traffic but 80% of peak-hour inner-city traffic.

而且，很多快递包裹都是在工作高峰时段递送到办公室而不是家里。在德国，货运只占全部交通量的30%，但却占到市中心高峰时段交通量的80%。

In London, where congestion charges have reduced the number of private cars on the road during the day, delivery vans and ride-hailing services such as Uber have more than made up the difference. Researchers in Seattle found that roughly half of the trucks making deliveries downtown parked illegally, blocking and slowing other traffic.