近日，山西的黑砖窑事件令国人震惊。大量未成年的孩子和民工被人贩子骗走，卖到砖窑做苦役，遭受着非人的待遇。请看《中国日报》相关报道：

According to the report, most of the "slave" laborers¹ are migrant workers who had been lured² by human traffickers to the brick kilns⁴ and were later detained by the kiln³ owners who hired thugs to keep the detainees under tight security.

Anyone attempting to run away would be punished by a deadly thrashing. A thug who worked for a kiln owner in Caosheng Village, Shanxi Province, was arrested by local police for allegedly beating a runway "slave" to death after catching⁵ the victim.

报道称，很多民工被人贩子骗到砖窑后，被砖窑老板扣押，并被打手监守。如果他们想逃跑，会遭到毒打。

这里的“human trafficker”指的就是“人贩子”。“Traffic”作名词用时我们都很熟悉，指的是“交通”。作动词用时，有“非法交易……”的意思，如“traffic drugs”（倒卖毒品）、“traffic women and children”（倒卖妇女儿童）。这里的“trafficker”是它的名词形式，意为“非法交易商贩”。