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纽约孕妇地铁寻座记

Ah, the plight of the pregnant.

唉，怀孕的苦恼啊。

Marion Koshy strategizes. The Kew Gardens resident is seven months pregnant. Her commute is long. We're talking more than an hour long, a bus ride to the E train to the 6 train long.

住在丘园小区(Kew Gardens)的马里昂•科希(Marion Koshy)为此大费周章。科希是一名34岁的社工，怀孕七个月了。她每天上班路上花费的时间很长。我们一路聊了一个多小时，从乘公交车到换乘E线地铁，再转乘地铁六号线。

She has tried leaving home earlier. She's tried different cars. She's tried taking the local instead of the express. Her secret weapon: eye contact.

她曾试着早点从家里出发，也试过乘坐其他交通工具，或是避开地铁快车，只坐慢车。她的秘密武器是：对眼神儿。

'I have this thing where I kind of just peer over the paper and I'll look at the person, but it's as if I'm reading and maybe I'll catch their glance and then hope they'll give me their seat,' said the 34-year-old social worker.

她说，“我的一套办法是，我会盯着报纸看，然后我看人，不过看起来我还是在看报纸，没准儿我会和谁对上眼神儿，然后他也许会把座位让给我。”

It doesn't always work. One day this week, she was standing up reading the paper. The train was crowded. Three men were sitting near her. 'One looked up at me and then looked down again,' she recalled. 'I know he was reading the back of my paper. He didn't say a word.'