Traffic

(noun.) buying and selling; especially illicit trade.

(noun.) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; 'heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines'; 'traffic on the internet is lightest during the night'.

(noun.) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time.

(verb.) trade or deal a commodity; 'They trafficked with us for gold'.

(verb.) deal illegally; 'traffic drugs'.

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• This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was begun in 1876 and opened for traffic in 1883, and its cost was about $15,000,000. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen's boats were far more numerous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The present omnibus traffic in London alone amounts to nearly ￡20,000 per week. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Traffic is what they put for'ard; but it's to do harm to the land and the poor man in the long-run. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The traffic returns for the week ending the 25th of September, 1858, amounted to ￡502,720; and the gross receipts of the railways in 1857 were ￡24,174,610. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I have trafficked with the good fathers, and bought wheat and barley, and fruits of the earth, and also much wool. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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