单词 | traffic |
释义 | traffic (once / 229 pages) 1n 2nv 3n If you drive during rush hour, you're likely to hit some heavy traffic, and if you get stuck in a big traffic jam, you'll definitely be late. It's not just cars that create traffic — a large number of anything trying to occupy the same space adds up to traffic. Internet providers may see a lot of traffic when there's big news and everyone is trying to sign on to find out what happened. Pedestrians also create traffic, like those walking past your new burrito palace and pet costume shop. While your business may be perfectly respectable, you would want to watch out for people who traffic stolen goods and illegal drugs. In that sense, traffic acts as a verb indicating you're trading something, often illegally. WORD FAMILYtraffic: trafficing, trafficked, trafficker, trafficking, traffics+/trafficker: traffickers USAGE EXAMPLESBharambe seems a credible candidate for the huge task of modernising Mumbai’s archaic traffic policing system. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) Residents not only complained about traffic, but complained that the area wasn’t appropriate for a religious facility. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The plan will result in towering structures in the wrong places, a paucity of parks, crowded schools and a continuation of nightmare-inducing traffic. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time Hypo|Hyper air traffic traffic created by the movement of aircraft commuter traffictraffic created by people going to or returning from work foot traffic, pedestrian trafficpeople coming and going on foot vehicle traffic, vehicular trafficthe aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality automobile traffic, car trafficcars coming and going bicycle trafficbicycles coming and going bus trafficbuses coming and going truck traffictrucks coming and going accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 2n the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time 2heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines traffic on the internet is lightest during the night Hyper communicating, communication the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information 1n buying and selling; especially illicit trade Hypo|Hyper drug traffic, drug trafficking, narcotraffic traffic in illegal drugs barratry, simonytraffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments slave trade, slave traffictraffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries commerce, commercialism, mercantilism transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) 2v deal illegally traffic drugs Hyper merchandise, trade engage in the trade of 3v trade or deal a commodity 3They trafficked with us for gold Hyper merchandise, trade engage in the trade of n social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') Syn|Hypo|Hyper dealings relation (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups give-and-take, interchange, reciprocation mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) |
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