Definition of traffic in English:

traffic

noun ˈtrafɪkˈtræfɪk

mass noun

1Vehicles moving on a public highway.
往来于公路上的车辆；交通
a stream of heavy traffic
川流不息的车辆。
Example sentencesExamples
- These figures show that, in general, the effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow increases with the increase in grade.
- It is also being used to determine the cause of serious road traffic accidents.
- Most referrals have been occupational injuries, but the company wants to extend into road traffic accidents.
- The usual emergencies such as fires or road traffic accidents will not elicit a response from these vehicles, even with the crews and fire engines on station.
- The net result of the previous effects would be improved traffic operations and less effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow.
- The unfortunate thing about road traffic accidents is that the situation never stands still.
- The country's busiest route, the Belfast-Dublin road, claimed another traffic accident victim yesterday.
- Problems range from lost luggage and minor injuries through to road traffic accidents and serious diseases.
- There have been several road traffic accidents in recent weeks.
- On that night we had reports across the city of burglaries, car crime, public order incidents, domestic violence, road traffic accidents.
- Road traffic accidents in the city would thus be limited to negligent rear-ending incidents.
- Obviously this is an area of greatest risk from fire, but sadly many people are also injured following road traffic accidents and other emergencies.
- Road traffic accidents are far more frequent these days.
- The accident caused traffic chaos for motorists along Featherstall Road until the seven-tonne truck was removed at around 8am.
- The location of speed cameras is based on the collation and evaluation of road traffic accident casualty statistics over a three-year period.
- Road traffic accidents alone account for an estimated five million head injuries each year.
- However, it is not our sole responsibility - everybody has a part to play in reducing road traffic accidents and that includes parents.
- There is always lots of urge in the mid-range, making the car easy to drive, both in heavy city traffic and on the open road.
- This follows a number of road traffic accidents in and near the village recently.
- The bill will also restrict the powers of telecommunications companies to disrupt traffic flow by opening roads for cable laying.
Synonyms
vehicles, cars, lorries, trucks
congestion, traffic jam, jam, tailback, hold-up, bottleneck, gridlock, queue, stoppage, obstruction
informal snarl-up
1. 1.1 The movement of ships, trains, aircraft, or pedestrians.
  非公路交通；行人往来
  Europe's air traffic
  欧洲空中交通。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most train traffic was lost to cars rather than to aircraft.
  The adolescent males often disregard pedestrian and car traffic, riding after dark and the wrong way on roundabouts.
  The company expects to almost double its usual mid-week train traffic.
  The agreement will create new opportunities for the aviation industry and will increase air traffic.
  That is a busy bit of sea with lots of ships and intensive ferry traffic.
  There is no central verge, though pedestrian and vehicular traffic are heavy especially during evenings.
  Pedestrian overbridges and subways provide total segregation of pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
  There is a meticulous logging of pedestrian traffic, routines of security personnel, and details of buildings.
  Air traffic control and aircraft control systems, as examples, are of that nature.
  An independent report commission by air traffic controllers said the growth in air traffic poses significant new risks and proposes changes to improve safety.
  They are usually established where there is heavy pedestrian traffic.
  He also stated that the lane was inadequate width, thus preventing two-way vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement.
  The resulting measurements can be used to assess air quality, the impact of air traffic, and even the environmental impact of specific aircraft.
  Any major disruption to shipping and air traffic can and will leave us without a supply of food.
  Pedestrian and vehicular traffic is to utilise only the right lane of the north-bound Henry Street.
  The bridge to the Island Airport will open the waterfront to heavy daily commercial air traffic.
  Another chain-link fence on either side of the tracks further restricts pedestrian traffic.
  The refugees apparently were trying to take advantage of decreased holiday train traffic.
  On December 14, he dismissed calls to probe all US government air traffic movements through Britain.
  Separating motor from pedestrian traffic was more than somewhat retarded.
2. 1.2 The transportation of goods or passengers.
  货物运输；旅客运送
  the increased use of railways for goods traffic
  货运铁路使用量的增加。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The strike will affect passenger and freight traffic across the nation.
  He laughs when he explains all the rail franchises were awarded on the understanding that passenger traffic would contract each year.
  After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant.
  Air freight traffic grew at a significantly faster rate than passenger traffic during the same period.
  The rail network was completely shut down for passengers and freight traffic.
  All stations would be enormous enough to cope with increased passenger traffic over the next five decades.
  Perhaps Alaska's burgeoning tourist industry will eventually revive the international passenger traffic.
  The airport will not be closed to normal passenger traffic, and it is expected that the receiving area for the casualties will be contained.
  They also agreed to encourage an increase in railway passenger traffic between Sofia and Thessaloniki.
  In a matter of weeks, traffic fell from 40,000 passengers a day to just 5000.
  But with the explosion of automobile ownership, rail passenger traffic went into rapid decline.
  In the first half of the year, passenger traffic increased by a record high 37 per cent.
  Goods and passenger traffic to Scotland has increased recently.
  The action resulted in the halting of all passenger and freight rail traffic nationwide between 03.00 to 09.00.
  The economic boom in the capital is already shifting the balance of passenger traffic.
  The dispute comes at a time when the rail service has seen increasing levels of freight and long-distance passenger traffic.
  In the first year, passenger traffic was four times the predicted level.
  He gave evidence of the transfer of passenger and mail traffic to the railway route through Liverpool.
  Just three months ago Asian airlines were basking in big turnarounds of their passenger and cargo traffic.
  The freight and passenger traffic is greater in the latter part of the week than at the beginning of the week.
  Synonyms
  transport, transportation, movement of goods/people, freight, shipping, conveyancing
2The messages or signals transmitted through a communications system.
通信
data traffic between remote workstations
偏远工作站之间的数据通信。
Example sentencesExamples
- The simple basics of VOIP is that it uses high speed internet lines to carry voice traffic instead of telephone lines.
- This technology transmits broadband traffic over medium voltage power lines.
- Around 80 per cent of all traffic in the Internet is already P2P.
- They also showed that on-board systems ignored the Bluetooth traffic generated by an infected mobile phone.
- A network is operated such that message forwarding traffic is shared among routers in a load-sharing set.
- Just seventy pounds of glass in the form of optical fibers can transmit as much telephone traffic as one ton of copper.
- A technique for tracing the path taken by e-mail, Web traffic and other data.
- All these services generate huge amount of traffic of SMS messages.
- Computers could be used to route traffic around numerous interconnected systems and if one or several boxes failed, the network would keep on ticking.
- These sites have giant radio antennas that can pick up all traffic handled by communications satellites.
- It is estimated that a majority of all email traffic on the Internet is spam.
- A card on your computer receives and then transmits your traffic back to the provider.
- This can transmit multimedia traffic using a single laser over a single wavelength of light.
- You still have to pay for the SMS traffic but the system is elegant.
- The biggest threats come from malicious virus spreaders who can clog IT systems so effectively all traffic can come to a standstill.
- Without message traffic, the most skilled analysts are helpless.
- Networks were configured for message traffic with packet sizes of 512 bytes.
3The action of dealing or trading in something illegal.
非法交易，非法买卖
the traffic in stolen cattle
赃牛贩卖。
Example sentencesExamples
- The second method employed by the Basel Convention is to ensure that states punish illegal traffic as a criminal offence.
- And those pressures create a lucrative traffic in illegal workers, filling the war chests of criminals.
- The traffic in illegal drugs is a global problem, and money-laundering schemes take many forms.
- As some say, up to 20% of their revenue is derived from the traffic in illegal sound recordings.
- This was all to do with stopping traffic in illegal wood and enforcing the law.
- The traffic in women is largely illegal and undocumented.
- They collaborate in order to deal with various common problems, from the environment to the traffic in illegal drugs.
- It is a first step, but an important one, in stopping the world-wide traffic in stolen antiquities.
- The traffic in human body parts is a grisly business from which most Nigerians will go a long way to keep their distance.
- They asked to be informed if the prospects of the livestock traffic in 1930 were likely to be such as would justify the reduction in lairage charges.
- Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb contraband traffic in the region.
- Drug-dealers earn nigh-on incredible sums from the illegal traffic in drugs.
Synonyms
trade, trading, trafficking, dealing, commerce, business, peddling, buying and selling
smuggling, bootlegging
market, black market
dealings, transactions, negotiations, proceedings
4archaic Dealings or communication between people.
〈古〉（人与人之间的）来往，联系
Synonyms
dealings, association, contact, communication, connection, relations, intercourse

verbtrafficked, trafficking, traffics ˈtrafɪkˈtræfɪk

[no object]

Deal or trade in something illegal.
非法交易，非法买卖
the government will vigorously pursue individuals who traffic in drugs
政府将不遗余力地追捕毒贩。
Example sentencesExamples
- He catches animals and birds, he traffics in legal and illegal products.
- Thailand is a major market for drugs trafficked from neighboring countries, most notably Myanmar.
- He denied knowing that Paul was trafficking in drugs and said he did not know that a drug deal was about to occur that night.
- There were reports that women are trafficked into the country for prostitution.
- And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers.
- Each year, some 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide, according to the United Nations.
- He used drugs during this period and trafficked in drugs to pay for his habit as well as to provide for his family.
- The men advertised in English newspapers to hire girls but also used illegally trafficked women with no paperwork or visas.
- ‘And we are talking about predominantly women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation,’ he said.
- Two hundred thousand people are trafficked into this country for sexual labor every day.
- Nevertheless, Cannabis is not the only drug trafficked or abused in Zambia.
- How were the terrorists able to rent a safe house and secretly traffic in operatives and material?
- Narcotics officers are still keeping a close eye on drug trafficking in and around the city.
Synonyms
trade, deal, do business, peddle, bargain
buy and sell, market, barter
smuggle, bootleg
informal hawk, tout, flog, push, run

Derivatives

trafficless

adjective

Then he turns and points to the road heading straight on, the almost trafficless road heading towards some blue distant hills.
Example sentencesExamples
- The red brick houses with their carved wooden balconies were clustered round one stepped trafficless street, rising to a wonderful temple.
- Based on a startling true story, the show takes us down the trafficless roads and on to the unspoilt paradise beaches of a tiny isolated island in the Bahamas.
- Which means you are looking at a trafficless site with a catchy domain name and what is more than likely a free, downloadable template.
- I'm thinking the deep inland high deserts and a nice crumbling trafficless farm road are the way to go

Origin

Early 16th century (denoting commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers): from French traffique, Spanish tráfico, or Italian traffico, of unknown origin. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th century.

Borrowed from French traffique, or the Spanish or Italian equivalents, this originally referred to commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers. The sense ‘vehicles moving on a public highway’ dates from the early 19th century. The traffic warden first appeared in London in 1960. Traffic calming is a translation of German Verkehrsberuhigung and arrived on British roads in the late 1980s. See also jam. Nowadays trafficking implies dealing in something illegal, especially drugs, but in the mid 16th century to traffic was a neutral term meaning ‘to buy and sell, trade’. By the end of that century, though, it had started to take on negative connotations.

Rhymes

autobiographic, autographic, bibliographic, biographic, calligraphic, cartographic, choreographic, cinematographic, cryptographic, demographic, geographic, graphic, hagiographic, historiographic, holographic, hydrographic, iconographic, lithographic, monographic, orthographic, palaeographic (US paleographic), photographic, pictographic, pornographic, reprographic, Sapphic, seraphic, stenographic, telegraphic, typographic, xerographic

Definition of traffic in US English:

traffic

nounˈtrafikˈtræfɪk

1Vehicles moving on a road or public highway.
往来于公路上的车辆；交通
a stream of heavy traffic
川流不息的车辆。
Example sentencesExamples
- The usual emergencies such as fires or road traffic accidents will not elicit a response from these vehicles, even with the crews and fire engines on station.
- Road traffic accidents alone account for an estimated five million head injuries each year.
- Road traffic accidents are far more frequent these days.
- However, it is not our sole responsibility - everybody has a part to play in reducing road traffic accidents and that includes parents.
- Road traffic accidents in the city would thus be limited to negligent rear-ending incidents.
- The accident caused traffic chaos for motorists along Featherstall Road until the seven-tonne truck was removed at around 8am.
- The country's busiest route, the Belfast-Dublin road, claimed another traffic accident victim yesterday.
- These figures show that, in general, the effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow increases with the increase in grade.
- Most referrals have been occupational injuries, but the company wants to extend into road traffic accidents.
- This follows a number of road traffic accidents in and near the village recently.
- The bill will also restrict the powers of telecommunications companies to disrupt traffic flow by opening roads for cable laying.
- Problems range from lost luggage and minor injuries through to road traffic accidents and serious diseases.
- The unfortunate thing about road traffic accidents is that the situation never stands still.
- The location of speed cameras is based on the collation and evaluation of road traffic accident casualty statistics over a three-year period.
- There have been several road traffic accidents in recent weeks.
- On that night we had reports across the city of burglaries, car crime, public order incidents, domestic violence, road traffic accidents.
- It is also being used to determine the cause of serious road traffic accidents.
- There is always lots of urge in the mid-range, making the car easy to drive, both in heavy city traffic and on the open road.
- The net result of the previous effects would be improved traffic operations and less effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow.
- Obviously this is an area of greatest risk from fire, but sadly many people are also injured following road traffic accidents and other emergencies.
Synonyms
vehicles, cars, lorries, trucks
congestion, traffic jam, jam, tailback, hold-up, bottleneck, gridlock, queue, stoppage, obstruction
1. 1.1 The movement of other forms of transportation or of pedestrians.
  非公路交通；行人往来
  managing the air traffic was a mammoth task
  Example sentencesExamples
  The adolescent males often disregard pedestrian and car traffic, riding after dark and the wrong way on roundabouts.
  He also stated that the lane was inadequate width, thus preventing two-way vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement.
  Pedestrian and vehicular traffic is to utilise only the right lane of the north-bound Henry Street.
  They are usually established where there is heavy pedestrian traffic.
  On December 14, he dismissed calls to probe all US government air traffic movements through Britain.
  The company expects to almost double its usual mid-week train traffic.
  Another chain-link fence on either side of the tracks further restricts pedestrian traffic.
  Air traffic control and aircraft control systems, as examples, are of that nature.
  Separating motor from pedestrian traffic was more than somewhat retarded.
  There is a meticulous logging of pedestrian traffic, routines of security personnel, and details of buildings.
  An independent report commission by air traffic controllers said the growth in air traffic poses significant new risks and proposes changes to improve safety.
  The resulting measurements can be used to assess air quality, the impact of air traffic, and even the environmental impact of specific aircraft.
  That is a busy bit of sea with lots of ships and intensive ferry traffic.
  The agreement will create new opportunities for the aviation industry and will increase air traffic.
  The refugees apparently were trying to take advantage of decreased holiday train traffic.
  The bridge to the Island Airport will open the waterfront to heavy daily commercial air traffic.
  Any major disruption to shipping and air traffic can and will leave us without a supply of food.
  Pedestrian overbridges and subways provide total segregation of pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
  Most train traffic was lost to cars rather than to aircraft.
  There is no central verge, though pedestrian and vehicular traffic are heavy especially during evenings.
2. 1.2 The transportation of goods or passengers.
  货物运输；旅客运送
  the increased use of railroads for goods traffic
  货运铁路使用量的增加。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The strike will affect passenger and freight traffic across the nation.
  But with the explosion of automobile ownership, rail passenger traffic went into rapid decline.
  After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant.
  Goods and passenger traffic to Scotland has increased recently.
  They also agreed to encourage an increase in railway passenger traffic between Sofia and Thessaloniki.
  The action resulted in the halting of all passenger and freight rail traffic nationwide between 03.00 to 09.00.
  The freight and passenger traffic is greater in the latter part of the week than at the beginning of the week.
  All stations would be enormous enough to cope with increased passenger traffic over the next five decades.
  The economic boom in the capital is already shifting the balance of passenger traffic.
  In the first year, passenger traffic was four times the predicted level.
  The rail network was completely shut down for passengers and freight traffic.
  Perhaps Alaska's burgeoning tourist industry will eventually revive the international passenger traffic.
  Air freight traffic grew at a significantly faster rate than passenger traffic during the same period.
  He laughs when he explains all the rail franchises were awarded on the understanding that passenger traffic would contract each year.
  Just three months ago Asian airlines were basking in big turnarounds of their passenger and cargo traffic.
  He gave evidence of the transfer of passenger and mail traffic to the railway route through Liverpool.
  The dispute comes at a time when the rail service has seen increasing levels of freight and long-distance passenger traffic.
  The airport will not be closed to normal passenger traffic, and it is expected that the receiving area for the casualties will be contained.
  In the first half of the year, passenger traffic increased by a record high 37 per cent.
  In a matter of weeks, traffic fell from 40,000 passengers a day to just 5000.
  Synonyms
  transport, transportation, movement of goods, movement of people, freight, shipping, conveyancing
2The messages or signals transmitted through a communications system.
通信
data traffic between remote workstations
偏远工作站之间的数据通信。
Example sentencesExamples
- Networks were configured for message traffic with packet sizes of 512 bytes.
- A card on your computer receives and then transmits your traffic back to the provider.
- All these services generate huge amount of traffic of SMS messages.
- It is estimated that a majority of all email traffic on the Internet is spam.
- They also showed that on-board systems ignored the Bluetooth traffic generated by an infected mobile phone.
- You still have to pay for the SMS traffic but the system is elegant.
- The biggest threats come from malicious virus spreaders who can clog IT systems so effectively all traffic can come to a standstill.
- Without message traffic, the most skilled analysts are helpless.
- Computers could be used to route traffic around numerous interconnected systems and if one or several boxes failed, the network would keep on ticking.
- These sites have giant radio antennas that can pick up all traffic handled by communications satellites.
- This can transmit multimedia traffic using a single laser over a single wavelength of light.
- Just seventy pounds of glass in the form of optical fibers can transmit as much telephone traffic as one ton of copper.
- Around 80 per cent of all traffic in the Internet is already P2P.
- A technique for tracing the path taken by e-mail, Web traffic and other data.
- A network is operated such that message forwarding traffic is shared among routers in a load-sharing set.
- The simple basics of VOIP is that it uses high speed internet lines to carry voice traffic instead of telephone lines.
- This technology transmits broadband traffic over medium voltage power lines.
3The action of dealing or trading in something illegal.
非法交易，非法买卖
the traffic in stolen cattle
赃牛贩卖。
Example sentencesExamples
- The second method employed by the Basel Convention is to ensure that states punish illegal traffic as a criminal offence.
- Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb contraband traffic in the region.
- As some say, up to 20% of their revenue is derived from the traffic in illegal sound recordings.
- The traffic in illegal drugs is a global problem, and money-laundering schemes take many forms.
- It is a first step, but an important one, in stopping the world-wide traffic in stolen antiquities.
- They collaborate in order to deal with various common problems, from the environment to the traffic in illegal drugs.
- Drug-dealers earn nigh-on incredible sums from the illegal traffic in drugs.
- This was all to do with stopping traffic in illegal wood and enforcing the law.
- They asked to be informed if the prospects of the livestock traffic in 1930 were likely to be such as would justify the reduction in lairage charges.
- The traffic in women is largely illegal and undocumented.
- The traffic in human body parts is a grisly business from which most Nigerians will go a long way to keep their distance.
- And those pressures create a lucrative traffic in illegal workers, filling the war chests of criminals.
Synonyms
trade, trading, trafficking, dealing, commerce, business, peddling, buying and selling
4archaic Dealings or communication between people.
〈古〉（人与人之间的）来往，联系
Synonyms
dealings, association, contact, communication, connection, relations, intercourse

verbˈtrafikˈtræfɪk

[no object]

Deal or trade in something illegal.
非法交易，非法买卖
the government will vigorously pursue individuals who traffic in drugs
政府将不遗余力地追捕毒贩。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘And we are talking about predominantly women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation,’ he said.
- The men advertised in English newspapers to hire girls but also used illegally trafficked women with no paperwork or visas.
- There were reports that women are trafficked into the country for prostitution.
- He catches animals and birds, he traffics in legal and illegal products.
- Each year, some 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide, according to the United Nations.
- He used drugs during this period and trafficked in drugs to pay for his habit as well as to provide for his family.
- He denied knowing that Paul was trafficking in drugs and said he did not know that a drug deal was about to occur that night.
- Two hundred thousand people are trafficked into this country for sexual labor every day.
- Narcotics officers are still keeping a close eye on drug trafficking in and around the city.
- Nevertheless, Cannabis is not the only drug trafficked or abused in Zambia.
- And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers.
- Thailand is a major market for drugs trafficked from neighboring countries, most notably Myanmar.
- How were the terrorists able to rent a safe house and secretly traffic in operatives and material?
Synonyms
trade, deal, do business, peddle, bargain

Origin

Early 16th century (denoting commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers): from French traffique, Spanish tráfico, or Italian traffico, of unknown origin. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th century.

单词	traffic
释义	Definition of traffic in English: traffic noun ˈtrafɪkˈtræfɪk mass noun 1Vehicles moving on a public highway. 往来于公路上的车辆；交通 a stream of heavy traffic 川流不息的车辆。 Example sentencesExamples These figures show that, in general, the effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow increases with the increase in grade. It is also being used to determine the cause of serious road traffic accidents. Most referrals have been occupational injuries, but the company wants to extend into road traffic accidents. The usual emergencies such as fires or road traffic accidents will not elicit a response from these vehicles, even with the crews and fire engines on station. The net result of the previous effects would be improved traffic operations and less effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow. The unfortunate thing about road traffic accidents is that the situation never stands still. The country's busiest route, the Belfast-Dublin road, claimed another traffic accident victim yesterday. Problems range from lost luggage and minor injuries through to road traffic accidents and serious diseases. There have been several road traffic accidents in recent weeks. On that night we had reports across the city of burglaries, car crime, public order incidents, domestic violence, road traffic accidents. Road traffic accidents in the city would thus be limited to negligent rear-ending incidents. Obviously this is an area of greatest risk from fire, but sadly many people are also injured following road traffic accidents and other emergencies. Road traffic accidents are far more frequent these days. The accident caused traffic chaos for motorists along Featherstall Road until the seven-tonne truck was removed at around 8am. The location of speed cameras is based on the collation and evaluation of road traffic accident casualty statistics over a three-year period. Road traffic accidents alone account for an estimated five million head injuries each year. However, it is not our sole responsibility - everybody has a part to play in reducing road traffic accidents and that includes parents. There is always lots of urge in the mid-range, making the car easy to drive, both in heavy city traffic and on the open road. This follows a number of road traffic accidents in and near the village recently. The bill will also restrict the powers of telecommunications companies to disrupt traffic flow by opening roads for cable laying. Synonyms vehicles, cars, lorries, trucks congestion, traffic jam, jam, tailback, hold-up, bottleneck, gridlock, queue, stoppage, obstruction informal snarl-up 1.1 The movement of ships, trains, aircraft, or pedestrians. 非公路交通；行人往来 Europe's air traffic 欧洲空中交通。 Example sentencesExamples Most train traffic was lost to cars rather than to aircraft. The adolescent males often disregard pedestrian and car traffic, riding after dark and the wrong way on roundabouts. The company expects to almost double its usual mid-week train traffic. The agreement will create new opportunities for the aviation industry and will increase air traffic. That is a busy bit of sea with lots of ships and intensive ferry traffic. There is no central verge, though pedestrian and vehicular traffic are heavy especially during evenings. Pedestrian overbridges and subways provide total segregation of pedestrians and vehicular traffic. There is a meticulous logging of pedestrian traffic, routines of security personnel, and details of buildings. Air traffic control and aircraft control systems, as examples, are of that nature. An independent report commission by air traffic controllers said the growth in air traffic poses significant new risks and proposes changes to improve safety. They are usually established where there is heavy pedestrian traffic. He also stated that the lane was inadequate width, thus preventing two-way vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement. The resulting measurements can be used to assess air quality, the impact of air traffic, and even the environmental impact of specific aircraft. Any major disruption to shipping and air traffic can and will leave us without a supply of food. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic is to utilise only the right lane of the north-bound Henry Street. The bridge to the Island Airport will open the waterfront to heavy daily commercial air traffic. Another chain-link fence on either side of the tracks further restricts pedestrian traffic. The refugees apparently were trying to take advantage of decreased holiday train traffic. On December 14, he dismissed calls to probe all US government air traffic movements through Britain. Separating motor from pedestrian traffic was more than somewhat retarded. 1.2 The transportation of goods or passengers. 货物运输；旅客运送 the increased use of railways for goods traffic 货运铁路使用量的增加。 Example sentencesExamples The strike will affect passenger and freight traffic across the nation. He laughs when he explains all the rail franchises were awarded on the understanding that passenger traffic would contract each year. After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant. Air freight traffic grew at a significantly faster rate than passenger traffic during the same period. The rail network was completely shut down for passengers and freight traffic. All stations would be enormous enough to cope with increased passenger traffic over the next five decades. Perhaps Alaska's burgeoning tourist industry will eventually revive the international passenger traffic. The airport will not be closed to normal passenger traffic, and it is expected that the receiving area for the casualties will be contained. They also agreed to encourage an increase in railway passenger traffic between Sofia and Thessaloniki. In a matter of weeks, traffic fell from 40,000 passengers a day to just 5000. But with the explosion of automobile ownership, rail passenger traffic went into rapid decline. In the first half of the year, passenger traffic increased by a record high 37 per cent. Goods and passenger traffic to Scotland has increased recently. The action resulted in the halting of all passenger and freight rail traffic nationwide between 03.00 to 09.00. The economic boom in the capital is already shifting the balance of passenger traffic. The dispute comes at a time when the rail service has seen increasing levels of freight and long-distance passenger traffic. In the first year, passenger traffic was four times the predicted level. He gave evidence of the transfer of passenger and mail traffic to the railway route through Liverpool. Just three months ago Asian airlines were basking in big turnarounds of their passenger and cargo traffic. The freight and passenger traffic is greater in the latter part of the week than at the beginning of the week. Synonyms transport, transportation, movement of goods/people, freight, shipping, conveyancing 2The messages or signals transmitted through a communications system. 通信 data traffic between remote workstations 偏远工作站之间的数据通信。 Example sentencesExamples The simple basics of VOIP is that it uses high speed internet lines to carry voice traffic instead of telephone lines. This technology transmits broadband traffic over medium voltage power lines. Around 80 per cent of all traffic in the Internet is already P2P. They also showed that on-board systems ignored the Bluetooth traffic generated by an infected mobile phone. A network is operated such that message forwarding traffic is shared among routers in a load-sharing set. Just seventy pounds of glass in the form of optical fibers can transmit as much telephone traffic as one ton of copper. A technique for tracing the path taken by e-mail, Web traffic and other data. All these services generate huge amount of traffic of SMS messages. Computers could be used to route traffic around numerous interconnected systems and if one or several boxes failed, the network would keep on ticking. These sites have giant radio antennas that can pick up all traffic handled by communications satellites. It is estimated that a majority of all email traffic on the Internet is spam. A card on your computer receives and then transmits your traffic back to the provider. This can transmit multimedia traffic using a single laser over a single wavelength of light. You still have to pay for the SMS traffic but the system is elegant. The biggest threats come from malicious virus spreaders who can clog IT systems so effectively all traffic can come to a standstill. Without message traffic, the most skilled analysts are helpless. Networks were configured for message traffic with packet sizes of 512 bytes. 3The action of dealing or trading in something illegal. 非法交易，非法买卖 the traffic in stolen cattle 赃牛贩卖。 Example sentencesExamples The second method employed by the Basel Convention is to ensure that states punish illegal traffic as a criminal offence. And those pressures create a lucrative traffic in illegal workers, filling the war chests of criminals. The traffic in illegal drugs is a global problem, and money-laundering schemes take many forms. As some say, up to 20% of their revenue is derived from the traffic in illegal sound recordings. This was all to do with stopping traffic in illegal wood and enforcing the law. The traffic in women is largely illegal and undocumented. They collaborate in order to deal with various common problems, from the environment to the traffic in illegal drugs. It is a first step, but an important one, in stopping the world-wide traffic in stolen antiquities. The traffic in human body parts is a grisly business from which most Nigerians will go a long way to keep their distance. They asked to be informed if the prospects of the livestock traffic in 1930 were likely to be such as would justify the reduction in lairage charges. Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb contraband traffic in the region. Drug-dealers earn nigh-on incredible sums from the illegal traffic in drugs. Synonyms trade, trading, trafficking, dealing, commerce, business, peddling, buying and selling smuggling, bootlegging market, black market dealings, transactions, negotiations, proceedings 4archaic Dealings or communication between people. 〈古〉（人与人之间的）来往，联系 Synonyms dealings, association, contact, communication, connection, relations, intercourse verbtrafficked, trafficking, traffics ˈtrafɪkˈtræfɪk [no object] Deal or trade in something illegal. 非法交易，非法买卖 the government will vigorously pursue individuals who traffic in drugs 政府将不遗余力地追捕毒贩。 Example sentencesExamples He catches animals and birds, he traffics in legal and illegal products. Thailand is a major market for drugs trafficked from neighboring countries, most notably Myanmar. He denied knowing that Paul was trafficking in drugs and said he did not know that a drug deal was about to occur that night. There were reports that women are trafficked into the country for prostitution. And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers. Each year, some 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide, according to the United Nations. He used drugs during this period and trafficked in drugs to pay for his habit as well as to provide for his family. The men advertised in English newspapers to hire girls but also used illegally trafficked women with no paperwork or visas. ‘And we are talking about predominantly women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation,’ he said. Two hundred thousand people are trafficked into this country for sexual labor every day. Nevertheless, Cannabis is not the only drug trafficked or abused in Zambia. How were the terrorists able to rent a safe house and secretly traffic in operatives and material? Narcotics officers are still keeping a close eye on drug trafficking in and around the city. Synonyms trade, deal, do business, peddle, bargain buy and sell, market, barter smuggle, bootleg informal hawk, tout, flog, push, run Derivatives trafficless adjective Then he turns and points to the road heading straight on, the almost trafficless road heading towards some blue distant hills. Example sentencesExamples The red brick houses with their carved wooden balconies were clustered round one stepped trafficless street, rising to a wonderful temple. Based on a startling true story, the show takes us down the trafficless roads and on to the unspoilt paradise beaches of a tiny isolated island in the Bahamas. Which means you are looking at a trafficless site with a catchy domain name and what is more than likely a free, downloadable template. I'm thinking the deep inland high deserts and a nice crumbling trafficless farm road are the way to go Origin Early 16th century (denoting commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers): from French traffique, Spanish tráfico, or Italian traffico, of unknown origin. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th century. Borrowed from French traffique, or the Spanish or Italian equivalents, this originally referred to commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers. The sense ‘vehicles moving on a public highway’ dates from the early 19th century. The traffic warden first appeared in London in 1960. Traffic calming is a translation of German Verkehrsberuhigung and arrived on British roads in the late 1980s. See also jam. Nowadays trafficking implies dealing in something illegal, especially drugs, but in the mid 16th century to traffic was a neutral term meaning ‘to buy and sell, trade’. By the end of that century, though, it had started to take on negative connotations. Rhymes autobiographic, autographic, bibliographic, biographic, calligraphic, cartographic, choreographic, cinematographic, cryptographic, demographic, geographic, graphic, hagiographic, historiographic, holographic, hydrographic, iconographic, lithographic, monographic, orthographic, palaeographic (US paleographic), photographic, pictographic, pornographic, reprographic, Sapphic, seraphic, stenographic, telegraphic, typographic, xerographic Definition of traffic in US English: traffic nounˈtrafikˈtræfɪk 1Vehicles moving on a road or public highway. 往来于公路上的车辆；交通 a stream of heavy traffic 川流不息的车辆。 Example sentencesExamples The usual emergencies such as fires or road traffic accidents will not elicit a response from these vehicles, even with the crews and fire engines on station. Road traffic accidents alone account for an estimated five million head injuries each year. Road traffic accidents are far more frequent these days. However, it is not our sole responsibility - everybody has a part to play in reducing road traffic accidents and that includes parents. Road traffic accidents in the city would thus be limited to negligent rear-ending incidents. The accident caused traffic chaos for motorists along Featherstall Road until the seven-tonne truck was removed at around 8am. The country's busiest route, the Belfast-Dublin road, claimed another traffic accident victim yesterday. These figures show that, in general, the effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow increases with the increase in grade. Most referrals have been occupational injuries, but the company wants to extend into road traffic accidents. This follows a number of road traffic accidents in and near the village recently. The bill will also restrict the powers of telecommunications companies to disrupt traffic flow by opening roads for cable laying. Problems range from lost luggage and minor injuries through to road traffic accidents and serious diseases. The unfortunate thing about road traffic accidents is that the situation never stands still. The location of speed cameras is based on the collation and evaluation of road traffic accident casualty statistics over a three-year period. There have been several road traffic accidents in recent weeks. On that night we had reports across the city of burglaries, car crime, public order incidents, domestic violence, road traffic accidents. It is also being used to determine the cause of serious road traffic accidents. There is always lots of urge in the mid-range, making the car easy to drive, both in heavy city traffic and on the open road. The net result of the previous effects would be improved traffic operations and less effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow. Obviously this is an area of greatest risk from fire, but sadly many people are also injured following road traffic accidents and other emergencies. Synonyms vehicles, cars, lorries, trucks congestion, traffic jam, jam, tailback, hold-up, bottleneck, gridlock, queue, stoppage, obstruction 1.1 The movement of other forms of transportation or of pedestrians. 非公路交通；行人往来 managing the air traffic was a mammoth task Example sentencesExamples The adolescent males often disregard pedestrian and car traffic, riding after dark and the wrong way on roundabouts. He also stated that the lane was inadequate width, thus preventing two-way vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic is to utilise only the right lane of the north-bound Henry Street. They are usually established where there is heavy pedestrian traffic. On December 14, he dismissed calls to probe all US government air traffic movements through Britain. The company expects to almost double its usual mid-week train traffic. Another chain-link fence on either side of the tracks further restricts pedestrian traffic. Air traffic control and aircraft control systems, as examples, are of that nature. Separating motor from pedestrian traffic was more than somewhat retarded. There is a meticulous logging of pedestrian traffic, routines of security personnel, and details of buildings. An independent report commission by air traffic controllers said the growth in air traffic poses significant new risks and proposes changes to improve safety. The resulting measurements can be used to assess air quality, the impact of air traffic, and even the environmental impact of specific aircraft. That is a busy bit of sea with lots of ships and intensive ferry traffic. The agreement will create new opportunities for the aviation industry and will increase air traffic. The refugees apparently were trying to take advantage of decreased holiday train traffic. The bridge to the Island Airport will open the waterfront to heavy daily commercial air traffic. Any major disruption to shipping and air traffic can and will leave us without a supply of food. Pedestrian overbridges and subways provide total segregation of pedestrians and vehicular traffic. Most train traffic was lost to cars rather than to aircraft. There is no central verge, though pedestrian and vehicular traffic are heavy especially during evenings. 1.2 The transportation of goods or passengers. 货物运输；旅客运送 the increased use of railroads for goods traffic 货运铁路使用量的增加。 Example sentencesExamples The strike will affect passenger and freight traffic across the nation. But with the explosion of automobile ownership, rail passenger traffic went into rapid decline. After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant. Goods and passenger traffic to Scotland has increased recently. They also agreed to encourage an increase in railway passenger traffic between Sofia and Thessaloniki. The action resulted in the halting of all passenger and freight rail traffic nationwide between 03.00 to 09.00. The freight and passenger traffic is greater in the latter part of the week than at the beginning of the week. All stations would be enormous enough to cope with increased passenger traffic over the next five decades. The economic boom in the capital is already shifting the balance of passenger traffic. In the first year, passenger traffic was four times the predicted level. The rail network was completely shut down for passengers and freight traffic. Perhaps Alaska's burgeoning tourist industry will eventually revive the international passenger traffic. Air freight traffic grew at a significantly faster rate than passenger traffic during the same period. He laughs when he explains all the rail franchises were awarded on the understanding that passenger traffic would contract each year. Just three months ago Asian airlines were basking in big turnarounds of their passenger and cargo traffic. He gave evidence of the transfer of passenger and mail traffic to the railway route through Liverpool. The dispute comes at a time when the rail service has seen increasing levels of freight and long-distance passenger traffic. The airport will not be closed to normal passenger traffic, and it is expected that the receiving area for the casualties will be contained. In the first half of the year, passenger traffic increased by a record high 37 per cent. In a matter of weeks, traffic fell from 40,000 passengers a day to just 5000. Synonyms transport, transportation, movement of goods, movement of people, freight, shipping, conveyancing 2The messages or signals transmitted through a communications system. 通信 data traffic between remote workstations 偏远工作站之间的数据通信。 Example sentencesExamples Networks were configured for message traffic with packet sizes of 512 bytes. A card on your computer receives and then transmits your traffic back to the provider. All these services generate huge amount of traffic of SMS messages. It is estimated that a majority of all email traffic on the Internet is spam. They also showed that on-board systems ignored the Bluetooth traffic generated by an infected mobile phone. You still have to pay for the SMS traffic but the system is elegant. The biggest threats come from malicious virus spreaders who can clog IT systems so effectively all traffic can come to a standstill. Without message traffic, the most skilled analysts are helpless. Computers could be used to route traffic around numerous interconnected systems and if one or several boxes failed, the network would keep on ticking. These sites have giant radio antennas that can pick up all traffic handled by communications satellites. This can transmit multimedia traffic using a single laser over a single wavelength of light. Just seventy pounds of glass in the form of optical fibers can transmit as much telephone traffic as one ton of copper. Around 80 per cent of all traffic in the Internet is already P2P. A technique for tracing the path taken by e-mail, Web traffic and other data. A network is operated such that message forwarding traffic is shared among routers in a load-sharing set. The simple basics of VOIP is that it uses high speed internet lines to carry voice traffic instead of telephone lines. This technology transmits broadband traffic over medium voltage power lines. 3The action of dealing or trading in something illegal. 非法交易，非法买卖 the traffic in stolen cattle 赃牛贩卖。 Example sentencesExamples The second method employed by the Basel Convention is to ensure that states punish illegal traffic as a criminal offence. Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb contraband traffic in the region. As some say, up to 20% of their revenue is derived from the traffic in illegal sound recordings. The traffic in illegal drugs is a global problem, and money-laundering schemes take many forms. It is a first step, but an important one, in stopping the world-wide traffic in stolen antiquities. They collaborate in order to deal with various common problems, from the environment to the traffic in illegal drugs. Drug-dealers earn nigh-on incredible sums from the illegal traffic in drugs. This was all to do with stopping traffic in illegal wood and enforcing the law. They asked to be informed if the prospects of the livestock traffic in 1930 were likely to be such as would justify the reduction in lairage charges. The traffic in women is largely illegal and undocumented. The traffic in human body parts is a grisly business from which most Nigerians will go a long way to keep their distance. And those pressures create a lucrative traffic in illegal workers, filling the war chests of criminals. Synonyms trade, trading, trafficking, dealing, commerce, business, peddling, buying and selling 4archaic Dealings or communication between people. 〈古〉（人与人之间的）来往，联系 Synonyms dealings, association, contact, communication, connection, relations, intercourse verbˈtrafikˈtræfɪk [no object] Deal or trade in something illegal. 非法交易，非法买卖 the government will vigorously pursue individuals who traffic in drugs 政府将不遗余力地追捕毒贩。 Example sentencesExamples ‘And we are talking about predominantly women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation,’ he said. The men advertised in English newspapers to hire girls but also used illegally trafficked women with no paperwork or visas. There were reports that women are trafficked into the country for prostitution. He catches animals and birds, he traffics in legal and illegal products. Each year, some 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide, according to the United Nations. He used drugs during this period and trafficked in drugs to pay for his habit as well as to provide for his family. He denied knowing that Paul was trafficking in drugs and said he did not know that a drug deal was about to occur that night. Two hundred thousand people are trafficked into this country for sexual labor every day. Narcotics officers are still keeping a close eye on drug trafficking in and around the city. Nevertheless, Cannabis is not the only drug trafficked or abused in Zambia. And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers. Thailand is a major market for drugs trafficked from neighboring countries, most notably Myanmar. How were the terrorists able to rent a safe house and secretly traffic in operatives and material? Synonyms trade, deal, do business, peddle, bargain Origin Early 16th century (denoting commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers): from French traffique, Spanish tráfico, or Italian traffico, of unknown origin. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th century.
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