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

在伦敦，拥堵费降低了白天上路的私家车数量，而货车和优步等叫车服务又使得路上车辆大增。西雅图的研究人员发现，在市中心运送货物的卡车中，约有一半违章停车，导致交通堵塞，车行缓慢。

Then there's China, where just one food-delivery company -- Meituan -- employs 600,000 drivers to serve 400 million customers annually in 2,800 cities. Drivers mostly use electrified two-wheelers that swerve through traffic and along sidewalks, and park pretty much wherever a delivery is to be made. The swarm of e-bikes clogging sidewalks has even prompted irate columns in media outlets that ordinarily cheer on China's e-commerce champions.

再来看看中国。在中国，仅美团一家送餐公司就雇佣了近60万名骑手，每年在2800个城市为4亿多消费者服务。骑手们大多骑乘两轮电动车，穿梭于车流和人行道上，而且几乎可以停在任何需要送货的地方。大量的电动自行车堵塞了人行道，甚至在通常为中国电子商务巨头们叫好的媒体上引发了愤怒的批评。

swerve[swɜːv]：vi.转弯；突然转向

clog [klɒg]：v.阻塞

The problem is only going to get worse. In Seattle, home of Amazon.com Inc., a compound annual e-commerce growth rate of 20% between 2018 and 2023 is expected to more than double goods deliveries. The numbers for China are even more staggering: Online retail sales are projected to grow by 30% in 2019 and reach nearly $2 trillion, accounting for more than half of all global online retail sales.