mass noun
1
- vehicles 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。
1.1
- a large number of such vehicles车流：
we were caught in traffic on the motorway.
我们被困在高速公路上的滚滚车流中了。
1.2
- the movement of other forms of transport or of pedestrians非公路交通; 行人往来：
Europe's air traffic.
欧洲空中交通。
1.3
- 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。
1.4
- the 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。
2
- the 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。
3
- archaic dealings or communication between people〈古〉（人与人之间的）来往, 联系。
(trafficked, trafficking)no obj.
- deal or trade in something illegal非法交易：
the government will vigorously pursue individuals who traffic in drugs.
政府将不遗余力地追捕毒贩。
派生词
trafficker
nountrafficless
adjective词源
early 16th cent. (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 cent.