“One of you needs to be on the lookout for(留意，提防) cop(警察（口语）)s, while I block the robot, OK?”
“你们俩得有一个盯着警察，我来挡机器人，行吗？”
It is a crisp(（天气）干爽清冷的) fall morning in Philadelphia. Tucked away in a dingy(昏暗肮脏的) alley, opposite a garage called Patriot Parking, 78-year-old Carolyn Marvin is laying out some ground rules for a robot-disrupting expedition(远征，探险). Once a suitable target is identified, we will follow it to a busy sidewalk and Marvin will stand in front of the robot, blocking its way. The photographer and I will take turns(轮流) ensuring we’re not all carted off(被强行带走) by the police.
费城一个秋高气爽的早晨。在一条昏暗的小巷里，正对着一家名为“爱国者停车”的车库，78岁的卡罗琳·马文正在为一次“干扰机器人”的行动定下几条基本规则。一旦锁定合适的目标，我们就跟着它走到繁忙的人行道上，马文会站到机器人前面挡住去路。我和摄影师轮流望风，确保我们不会全被警察带走。
If Marvin sounds like she’s done this before, it’s because she has. Many, many times. The semi-retired University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) communications professor has become something of a(可以说是个，算得上) local celebrity after taking it upon herself to block the UberEats food delivery robots which have become a ubiquitous(无处不在的) presence in the city’s downtown. She doesn’t do this every day – “I have a life” – but whenever a robot crosses her path she’ll stare it down as a protest against their incursion(侵入，侵犯) into public spaces.
如果马文听起来像干过这事，那她确实干过，而且干过很多很多次。这位半退休的宾夕法尼亚大学（UPenn）传播学教授主动承担起阻拦UberEats外卖机器人的事，成了当地小有名气的人物——这些机器人如今在费城市中心随处可见。她并非每天都干——“我还有自己的生活”——但每当有机器人经过，她都会盯着它，以此抗议它们侵入公共空间。