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traf.fic VEHICLES5trAf7Ikn [U]the amount of vehicles moving along roads, or the amount of aircraft, trains or ships moving along a route流动的车辆（航线上的飞机，火车及船只）; 交通量Was there a lot of traffic on your journey?你旅途中有很多车辆吗？There was heavy traffic on the roads this morning.今天早上路上车辆很多。We got stuck in traffic for several hours.我们堵车堵了几个小时。I try to avoid the commuter/rush-hour traffic.我试图避免上下班时/高峰时的交通。Traffic jams/clogs/chokes the roads leading into London.车辆堵塞住了通往伦敦的道路。New measures have been introduced to try and ease traffic congestion in the city.已经采用新的手段努力缓解这个城市里的交通拥挤。Five people were injured in a traffic accident (= one involving vehicles).五个人在一起交通事故中受伤。The runway at the airport is not long enough to take transatlantic traffic (= aircraft).机场的跑道不够长，接纳不了横跨大西洋的飞机。Air traffic has increased 30% in the last decade.在过去的十年中空中交通量增加了30% 。Rail traffic was disrupted after last night's heavy snow.昨晚的大雪后，铁路交通中断了。Traffic is also people or goods transported by road, air, train or ship, as a business.运输量The airline has cut its overseas service by half because of a sharp reduction in traffic.这家航空公司因运输量骤减而削减了一半海外服务。Environmental groups argue that more passenger and freight traffic should be moved off the roads and onto trains.环保团体主张应该把更多的客运和货运从公路转到火车上。(Br) If a road is traffic calmed, or traffic calming is added to it, raised areas are built across it, or small ROUNDABOUTS or other similar structures are built onto it, so that vehicles are forced to move more slowly along it.建小交叉环行带等使车辆慢行Local residents are demanding that traffic calming measures are introduced to reduce the number of accidents on the road.当地的居民要求建造使车辆慢行的设施来减少交通事故的数量。Traffic circle is Am for ROUNDABOUT .环行路口A traffic cone is a cone-shaped object, usually red and white or yellow, which is used to mark an area of a road on which cars are temporarily not allowed to go, usually because repairs are being done.锥形交通路标One lane of the road was closed off by traffic cones.这条道路的一个车道被锥形交通路标封住了。A traffic island (also island) is a raised area in the middle of a road where people who are crossing the road can wait safely for traffic to go past. Traffic island is also Am for central reservation.交通岛，安全岛; 中心隔离带 [CENTRAL ]A traffic jam is a large number of vehicles close together moving very slowly or unable to move at all.交通堵塞Roadworks have caused traffic jams throughout the city centre.道路施工导致了市中心的交通堵塞。I was stuck in a traffic jam for an hour yesterday.昨天我堵车堵了一个小时。Traffic lights (also lights, Am also stoplight) are a set of red, yellow and green lights which control the movement of vehicles at a point where two or more roads join. A traffic light is also any one of this set of lights.红绿灯Turn left at the traffic lights, and Hinton Road is the second on your right.在红绿灯那儿朝左拐，亨顿路就是你右边的第二条路。The traffic lights turned green as we approached the junction.我们靠近十字路口时，红绿灯变成了绿色。She shot across just as the lights were changing.就在红绿灯变化的当口她急冲过马路。He was stopped by the police for failing to stop at a red traffic light.他被警察拦住，因为他没有在红灯时停下来。The traffic police (Am also traffic cops) are police officers whose job is to direct the movement of vehicles on a road, or to stop drivers who are breaking the law and give them an official notice that they have done so.交通警(Br) A traffic warden (Aus parking policeman) is a person whose job is to make certain that people do not leave their cars in places where they are not allowed to leave them, or for longer than they are allowed to leave them.停车监督员; 计时停车处管理员A traffic warden gave me a ticket for parking on a double yellow line.停车监督员给了我一张罚款单，因为我把车停在了黄色的双线上。
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