traffic

交通、往来

道路やある場所を行き来する車や人。

やさしい英語で： Vehicles or people moving along a road or through a place.

• There is heavy traffic today.
• We were stuck in traffic for an hour.
• Pedestrian traffic increases near the station at lunchtime.

類義語： travel

よく使う表現： heavy traffic, traffic jam, road traffic

客足、来店客数

店や飲食店を訪れる客の数や流れ。

やさしい英語で： The number or flow of people visiting a shop or restaurant.

• The shop gets little traffic on Mondays.
• Weekend traffic helped the restaurant increase sales.
• A new entrance could bring more foot traffic.

類義語： customer flow

よく使う表現： foot traffic, store traffic, customer traffic

密売、不正取引

通常は法律に反して、物や人を売り買いすること。

やさしい英語で： The buying and selling of goods or people, usually against the law.

• They tried to stop the traffic in drugs.
• Illegal traffic in weapons crosses several borders.
• The report exposed traffic in stolen art.

使い方： traffic in something (The police investigated traffic in stolen cars.)

類義語： trade, trafficking

よく使う表現： traffic in drugs, illegal traffic, traffic in weapons

密売する、不正取引する

通常は法律に反して、物や人を売買したり運んだりする。

やさしい英語で： To buy, sell, or move goods or people, usually against the law.

• They traffic in illegal weapons.
• He was arrested for trafficking in drugs.
• The group trafficked stolen goods across the border.

使い方： traffic in something (The gang trafficked in stolen phones.)

類義語： trade, deal

よく使う表現： traffic in drugs, traffic in weapons, traffic stolen goods

渋滞した、混雑した

車が多すぎて進みにくい、または進むのが遅い。

やさしい英語で： Having so many vehicles that movement is difficult or slow.

• It is very traffic here today.
• The road was super traffic yesterday.
• Is it always this traffic near the market?

類義語： congested, jammed

反対語： clear

よく使う表現： very traffic, super traffic, traffic here