1. a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians

Late one night, the summer my wife and I lived on the mountain, we saw a deer standing on the traffic island at the end of our street.

一个夏日的深夜，我和妻子住在山上，看到一头鹿站在道路尽头的交通安全岛上。

The Optic Garden functions as a sculpture on a traffic island celebrating the 2010 World Cup and marking one of the major routes to the inner-city match venues.

这个光学花园是一个功能性的雕塑作品，它被放置在途径南非世界杯场馆的一条公路边，以庆祝这一恢宏赛事在南非举办。

The Royal Artillery Memorial at London's Hyde Park Corner is an iceberg of dangerous memories, menacing the traffic that circles its island, forcing unpleasant truths from the past into the present.

座落于伦敦海德公园角的皇家炮兵纪念碑是种种危险记忆的冰山一角，威胁着环绕这个岛屿的交通，把过往不愉快的事实摆在人们眼前。