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单词 traffic jam
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traffic jam
traffic jam n. originally U.S. a situation in which the flow of road traffic is obstructed (e.g. by an accident or roadworks), causing a build-up of stationary or slow-moving vehicles; a stoppage of traffic caused by this; the vehicles caught in such a stoppage, viewed collectively; also figurative.
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stop1625
stoppage1727
lock1834
block1861
pinch point1868
tie-up1889
traffic jam1891
traffic snarl1899
traffic snarl1933
traffic snarl-up1947
thrombosis1959
snarl-up1960
back-up1962
tailback1975
gridlock1980
1891 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 17 Dec. 8/1 The five robbers had noticed that Creighton generally drove through Mather street to avoid the traffic jams on the large thoroughfares.
1917 I. Crump Boys' Bk. Policemen iii. 55 He plunged into the traffic jam at the next street.
1957 Economist 21 Dec. 1038/1 The Home Universities conference could hardly have chosen a more important subject for discussion last week than the traffic jam of students which piles up every summer when school leavers put in their bids for university places.
2019 Times of India 29 Apr. (Nexis) (Goa section) Nearly 50 passengers..missed their flights out of Goa on Saturday evening, after getting stuck in a massive traffic jam between Cortalim and Agasaim.
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