traffic
要点往来,交通
意味
- (車・船・人などの)往来,交通,通行;(鉄道・船などによる)輸送,運輸
- 《集合的に》交通量,輸送量
- 売買,商売(trade),(特に不正な)取り引き
- 運輸業,[旅客]輸送業
- (特に不正に)(…と…の)取り引きをする《+in+名+with+名》
例文
After you get to the traffic lights, turn right.
信号に着いたら、右に曲がってください。
She was none the worse for the traffic accident.
彼女は交通事故にあっても何ともなかった。
I was upset by the news of the traffic accident.
その交通事故の知らせに私は動揺した。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.
辞書順で近い単語
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