jaywalking是什么意思

双语用例

• With serious crime on the increase, charities are asking why street-sleepers are being arrested for jaywalking.

• They were stopped for jaywalking by an officer who they say yelled at them.

• The sign said "No jaywalking".

• She got a jaywalking ticket, a fine of $38, which she said she may appeal.

• If a rule prohibits jaywalking, a judge conforms to that rule just in case she finds that jaywalkers have, and that nonjaywalkers have not, engaged in wrongful conduct.

• Wha t usually motivates my compliance with the jaywalking law is a desire to avoid the $75 fine.

• In our jaywalking example, if the agent conforms simply because there is a rule that forbids jaywalking, then that agent has been motivationally guided by the law.

• Suppose, further, that there is a legally valid nor m that prohibits jaywalking.