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Trust 信任 Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, Pa., —a distance of about eighty miles. Pa.:Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚州） 昨晚，我驱车从宾夕法尼亚州的哈里斯堡前往该州的刘易斯堡，其间约有80英里的路程。 It was late, I was late and if anyone asked me how fast I was driving, I’d have to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination. 1. plead: To assert as defense, vindication, or excuse; claim as a plea. E.g. plead illness for his absence. 2. Fifth Amendment: An amendment to the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1791, that deals with the rights of accused criminals by providing for due process of law, forbidding double jeopardy, and stating that no person may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself. 3. incriminate: To accuse (somebody) of a crime or other wrongful act. 此时夜色已晚，我动身也迟了。要是有人问我当时车开得有多快，我就得根据《美国宪法修正案》第五条不予回答，以免证明自己违法。 Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I was clinching my fists with impatience. 在狭窄的公路上，我的车几次被缓缓行驶的货车挡在后面，左侧是一条严禁超越的白色实线，急得我攥紧了拳头。 At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I approached the light, it turned red and I braked to a halt. 我正驾车行驶在一条畅通的公路上，前面出现一个有交通信号灯的十字路口。 当时公路上只有我一人。我的车刚驶近路口，红灯就亮了，我赶紧刹住了车。 I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction. 我环顾四周，什么也没看到，没有一辆汽车，连车灯的影子也没有。 尽管如此，我还是一直坐在车里，等待信号灯的转换。 至少在方圆一英里范围内，就我一人。 I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being arrested, because there was obviously no cop around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it. 自己为什么不肯闯红灯？我开始琢磨这个问题。 我并不是害怕被抓住，因为周围根本没有警察，即使闯红灯，也不会有什么危险。 Much later that night, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for the ligh