People are more concerned about big events thousands of miles away than the daily affairs of their friends and neighbors, and modern transportation has enabled more and more people to engage in long-distance travel. Vast spatial distances have been overcome by advances in the means of transportation, but traffic jams in the city make it hard to budge an inch.
時下人們非常關切千里之外的大事，對於鄰里親友的細事卻不相過問；現代交通使許多人經常從事州際或長途旅行，空間距離已被交通工具的進步所克服，但是市區內的交通阻塞卻令人寸步難移。