Spillback is the full or partial blockage of an intersection by one or more cars that don’t make it through before the traffic lights turn red.
“排隊(duì)溢出”指的是交叉路口被一輛或多輛車完全或部分堵住，導(dǎo)致交通燈變紅前路口一直無法通行的狀況。

Spillback occurs when a street block is so jammed with slow-moving or stopped vehicles that it has no room for any entering traffic, which frequently “spills back”.
當(dāng)街區(qū)擠滿緩慢前行甚至停止不動(dòng)的車輛，也就沒有空間留給其他車輛駛?cè)?，這時(shí)就經(jīng)常會(huì)發(fā)生“排隊(duì)溢出”。

我們平時(shí)也常用queue spillback來表示下游交叉口車輛排隊(duì)蔓延至上游交叉口的交通現(xiàn)象。

（中國日報(bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 yaning）