英汉互译A recent study,published in last week’s Journal of the A

英汉互译
A recent study,published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association,offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver.Indeed,a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a serious accident as a teenager driving alone.
The author also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p.m.,and especially after midnight,with passengers in the car,the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident.
Robert Foss,a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center,says the higher death rates
for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience.“The basic issue.” he says,“is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled a task driving is.”
Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使……缓解)the problem is to have states set up so-called graduated licensing systems,in which getting a license is a process with several stages.A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult,followed by a period of driving with night of passenger restrictions,before graduating to full driving rights.
Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes,according to recent studies.

刊登在上周的《美国医学协会杂志》上的一个研究通过图片显示了搭青年司机的车的危险性.的确,一名16岁的司机搭载3名或3名以上乘客,与青年司机独自驾车相比,有3倍的发生严重车祸的可能性.
作者还发现青年在10点后发生死亡的概率大大增加,尤其是午夜后,并搭载乘客.司机更可能深夜事故中死亡.
Robert Foss,北卡罗兰那大学高速公路安全研究中心的科学家表示,与“很愚蠢的行为”相比,高死亡率与缺少驾驶经验的相关性更大一些.他说“最根本的原因是负责发放执照的成年人没有认识到驾驶是一件多么复杂且需要技能的事.”
他和该论文的作者都相信缓解这个问题的方法是建立所谓划分级执照系统.在这种系统下,申请人需要经过几个阶段才能获得执照.一个划分级别的执照要求青年人首先必须证明自己具有成年人驾驶的能力,并通过夜间有乘客限制的驾驶考试,才能获得完全驾驶能力的认证.
根据最新的研究,分级执照系统能够减少青年司机出现车祸的可能性.