美國多所高校禁用電動滑板
Hoverboards banned at US colleges
One of the holiday's hottest presents is now considered contraband at many U.S. colleges.
假日期間的一款熱門禮物最近卻被禁止在美國高校使用.
At least 20 universities have banned or restricted hoverboards on their campuses in recent weeks, saying the two-wheeled, motorized scooters are unsafe. Beyond the risk of falls and collisions, colleges are citing warnings from federal authorities that some of the self-balancing gadgets have caught on fire.
最近幾周,至少20所高校都以不安全為由,禁止學生在校園內使用電動滑板——一種驅動型兩輪滑板車.除了擔心學生摔倒或引發碰撞,校方的另一個憂慮來自美國政府的預警：這種自平衡裝置易引發火災.
"It's clear that these things are potentially dangerous," said Len Dolan, managing director of fire safety at Kean University in New Jersey. The public school of 14,000 students issued a campus-wide ban this week, telling students in an email that any hoverboards found on campus would be confiscated.
新澤西州基恩大學消防主管萊恩·多蘭表示："這種東西顯然有潛在危險."這座有1.4萬名學生的公立學校本周頒布了禁令.它在給學生的郵件中稱：全校范圍內禁行電動滑板,一經發現,將予沒收.
"These things are just catching fire without warning, and we don't want that in any of our dorms," Dolan said.
多蘭稱："這種東西毫無征兆地就會著起火來,我們不希望這種情況發生在任何一間宿舍."
Outright bans also have been issued at schools such as American University and George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C. Other schools said they will forbid the scooters in dorm rooms or campus buildings, a policy adopted at colleges including Louisiana State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Arkansas.
位于華盛頓特區的美利堅大學和喬治華盛頓大學也頒布了全校范圍內的禁令.還有一些學校表示會在宿舍和教學樓內禁用電動滑板.目前路易斯安那州立大學、艾奧瓦大學和阿肯色大學都是采取的這種部分禁令.
