美国多所高校禁用电动滑板
Hoverboards banned at US colleges
One of the holiday's hottest presents is now considered contraband at many U.S. colleges.
假日期间的一款热门礼物最近却被禁止在美国高校使用.
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.
最近几周,至少20所高校都以不安全为由,禁止学生在校园内使用电动滑板——一种驱动型两轮滑板车.除了担心学生摔倒或引发碰撞,校方的另一个忧虑来自美国政府的预警：这种自平衡装置易引发火灾.
"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.
新泽西州基恩大学消防主管莱恩·多兰表示："这种东西显然有潜在危险."这座有1.4万名学生的公立学校本周颁布了禁令.它在给学生的邮件中称：全校范围内禁行电动滑板,一经发现,将予没收.
"These things are just catching fire without warning, and we don't want that in any of our dorms," Dolan said.
多兰称："这种东西毫无征兆地就会着起火来,我们不希望这种情况发生在任何一间宿舍."
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.
位于华盛顿特区的美利坚大学和乔治华盛顿大学也颁布了全校范围内的禁令.还有一些学校表示会在宿舍和教学楼内禁用电动滑板.目前路易斯安那州立大学、艾奥瓦大学和阿肯色大学都是采取的这种部分禁令.
