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# System prepended metadata

title: transportation topic
tags: [english conversetion]

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Please pick the transportation options from the list that you are interested in. Also, think about the context in which you would use these transportation options during a conversation:
MRT, train, vehicle, scooter, bus, bike, walk.

## Good sentence
### Ride a scooter 騎機車
"Ride" 可以用在 "ride a scooter" 是因為 "ride" 是一個動詞，表示搭乘或騎乘某種交通工具。在這裡，"ride" 表示騎乘摩托車或機車。

## Notes for Riding a Scooter

- **Action:** Ride a scooter.
- **Duration:** Usually, it takes you 40 minutes to get to the office.
- **Benefits:** Riding a scooter is time-consuming and money-saving.
這裡需要修正一下，time-consuming 代表費時的，應該歸類在缺點。
- **Weather Consideration:** Especially on sunny days, the weather is way too hot, making it hard to stand the heat.
- **Possible Consequence:** Be cautious of getting a ticket due to illegal parking.

## Notes for Mass Rapid Transit

- **Action:** Take the MRT and transfer to a bus
- **Other transportation:** light rail (railway = train)
- **Useful Practice:** 
    - bound for: 往~的方向  e.g. the train bound for Yilan 「開往宜蘭的列車」
    - in bound: 往市區
    - out bound: 離開市區

## Notes for Take Uber

- **Action:** ride motorbike, take Uber or a taxi
- **Useful Practice:** 
    - You may drop me off around here.
    - I’m almost there, I’m “in” an Uber now.
    - I’m stuck in a (heavy) traffic jam.
    - I’m just two minutes away (or a few of blocks away).


## Notes for Commute in HK

- **Action:** interchange at 轉乘
- **Useful Practice:** 
    - The fare can be paid by different payment methods.
    - Night buses that serve over the midnight.
    - rush hour (= peak hour) 尖峰時間
    - May I know which bus can get to Disneyland?
    - tram

## Notes for Take buses

- **Action:** 
- **Useful Practice:** 
    - Easily get lost when I taking buses
    - Can be crowded
    - hit someone by accident
    - unpurposely

## Notes for Ride a scooter

- **Action:** riding scooter and transfer to the nearest MRT station
- **Useful Practice:** 
    - go straight and turn right at the second intersection
    - turn left at the corner