| 单词 | traffic |
| 释义 | traf·fic I. 1. a. < nurtured by land and water traffic, it grew into a commercial center — American Guide Series: Arkansas > b. < traffic with the Indians, exchanging jewelry for horses > < perishable and livestock traffic … consigned to other than morning markets — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > < middle classes … conducting the traffic by which they live — Agnes Repplier > < proud of his snug traffic in rich men's bonds, mortgages and deeds — Leo Marx > c. < a few such experiences sent him back to the narcotics traffic — Frank O'Leary > < traffic in honors … and pardons was incessant — T.B.Macaulay > < evidence of Red traffic in contraband arms — Wall Street Journal > < prohibit transportation in interstate commerce for the white slave traffic — Congressional Record > 2. a. < held that there was no traffic between the human and the divine — John Buchan > < realized for us in the three-hours traffic of the stage — J.I.M.Stewart > < don't want any more traffic with his sort > < for through our lively traffic all the day — W.H.Auden > b. < facilitate a lively traffic in ideas — F.L.Allen > 3. a. archaic < you'll see a draggled damsel … her fishy traffic bear — John Gay > b. traffics plural < move bulk traffics over long distances at reasonable speeds — P.E.Garbutt > 4. a. (1) < flooring … suitable for light traffic — National Fire Codes > < heavy lake traffic during the summer months > (2) < will open a needed avenue … for passenger and freight traffic — M.M.Lilly & G.H.Kester > < the full flood of the Christmas traffic — Compton Mackenzie > b. (1) < air and sea traffic will be notified — Science > < construction of the building attracted the interest of sidewalk traffic > (2) < engineers … who tabulate the traffic — A.W.Baum > c. (1) < made arrangements for an interchange of traffic with other lines — H.W.Faulkner > (2) < radio traffic has stepped up enormously — Pat Frank > d. < floor traffic in its showroom was up 60 percent — Newsweek > 5. a. < railroads handled more traffic than in the previous peak year — E.C.Helmreich > < oceangoing passenger traffic — Current Biography > b. < proposals … to get a proper share of international air traffic — C.H.Grattan > < plans for a resurrected river traffic — American Guide Series: Minnesota > 6. • - the traffic will bear II. also traf·fick intransitive verb 1. a. < got my living for a while by … trafficking in rabbit skins — Augusta Gregory > < last of the impresarios … who trafficked in art in the grand manner — Bernard Simon > b. < began to traffic in army promotions — Geoffrey Bruun > 2. < will not traffic with the breakers of the peace — H.S.Truman > < convinced himself … the child was trafficking with bards, or druids, or witches — W.B.Yeats > 3. < virtuoso soloists … continue to traffic in the well-worn favorites — Lawrence Morton > < characteristic of a medium which traffics in comedy extremes — Newsweek > 4. < spilled out of their houses to laugh and traffic along its … streets — Lucy Embury > transitive verb 1. < most heavily trafficked highway in the state — American Guide Series: Vermont > < venture to traffic them in the day, but few would risk such perilous thoroughfares by night — F.S.Merryweather > 2. < pies and cakes being trafficked back and forth across the street — Arthur Miller > |
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