trafficking

密売、不正取引

品物を違法に買ったり、売ったり、運んだりする商売。

やさしい英語で： The business of buying, selling, or moving goods illegally.

• Police are investigating drug trafficking.
• He was arrested for trafficking in stolen goods.
• The gang used fishing boats for arms trafficking.

使い方： trafficking in something (Police investigated trafficking in stolen weapons.)

類義語： illegal trade, smuggling

よく使う表現： drug trafficking, arms trafficking, illegal trafficking

タンパク質輸送

酵素を含むタンパク質が、組織内や細胞の各部分の間を移動すること。

やさしい英語で： The movement of proteins, including enzymes, through tissue or between parts of cells.

• The study examined protein trafficking.
• This mutation changes enzyme trafficking through the tissue.
• Researchers tracked trafficking between different parts of the cell.

類義語： protein transport

よく使う表現： protein trafficking, intracellular trafficking, enzyme trafficking