Word · CEFR A2 · Frequency #1423
traffic
交通；车流；人流
the movement of vehicles and people along roads, or the vehicles and people moving on a road at a time
- 1.
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
移动的行人或车辆,或其流动或通行。
- 2.
the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
在特定时间段内,某一地区进出的人或车辆的总和
- 3.
The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
货物的商业运输或交换,或乘客或人员的流动。
- 4.
buying and selling; especially illicit trade
买卖；尤其是非法交易
- 5.
The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
非法交易或交换货物,通常是毒品。
- 6.
the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
在给定时间内,通信系统上的活动量
- 7.
The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
信息、消息或数据的交换或流动,如在计算机或电话网络中。
- 8.
The commodities of the market.
市场的商品。
通信流量；网络流量；运输；贸易；客运；非法交易；贩卖（尤指毒品）；市场商品；移动的行人或车辆,或其流动或通行。
In use
We left home at 6 a.m. to beat the morning traffic on the bridge.
Traffic in this part of town is usually light on weekends.
Heavy traffic delayed the ambulance by almost twenty minutes.
heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines
traffic on the internet is lightest during the night
traffic + noun
常见名词组合，如 traffic light, traffic accident。
There is a traffic jam on the highway.
高速公路上有交通堵塞。
heavy/little traffic
描述交通流量大小。
Connections
Collocations
- heavy traffic
- 繁忙的交通
- We got stuck in heavy traffic on the way to the airport.我们去机场的路上遇到了交通拥堵。
- traffic jam
- 交通堵塞
- The accident caused a major traffic jam on the highway.事故导致高速公路上严重交通堵塞。
- traffic light
- 交通信号灯
- Wait for the traffic light to turn green before crossing the street.等交通信号灯变绿再过马路。
- traffic accident
- 交通事故
- The traffic accident blocked the intersection for an hour.那起交通事故堵塞了十字路口一小时。
- traffic flow
- 车流；交通流量
- The new road design improved traffic flow significantly.新的道路设计显著改善了车流。
- traffic violation
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆tip：想象马路上车水马龙的景象，就是traffic（交通）。
Context & Register
语域：中性；典型场景：交通流量、道路车辆、交通管理；注：通常用于描述车辆或行人的流动，日常和专业语境均常见。
Grammar Note
不可数名词，常与in或of搭配
Pronunciation & Spelling
Traffic (/ˈtræfɪk/) rhymes exactly with graphic (/ˈɡræfɪk/). Tragic (/ˈtrædʒɪk/) shares a similar initial syllable but differs in the final consonant. Pacific, specific, and terrific all end in -fic but have different stress patterns (second-syllable stress) and vowel qualities, so they do not rhyme with traffic.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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