Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

If we think that our knowledge is positive, we say "red" in a red light means stop.

如果我们主动认知，红灯的意思是停。

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Well, we can continue. On a light-up valentine it means "don't stop, go."

勇往直前吧“

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The North says it will stop using maritime shortwave radio frequencies with the South and cut off other means of emergency communication.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

And we're going to blitz through it like the hundred yard dash, and that means we can't stop and linger in too much detail on different topics.

而我们要像百米冲刺一样迅速过一遍,这也就是说,在很多问题上,我们不能过细地追究和逗留

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So in other words, if you terminate these lines early, if you terminate the four loop early, if you terminate an if condition early with that semicolon, the code may very well work; and this is a common source -- of frustration and conundrum because you don't -- because your code looks right and yet it's misbehaving, but that semicolon means stop looking for subsequent lines of related code.

换句话说，如果你用分号过早的终止了这些代码行，如果你过早地终止了那个for循环，如果如此,一个if条件，代码可能可以运行，这就是,挫折和问题产生的源头，因为你没有-,因为你的代码看起来是正确的，但是运行是错误的，那个分号的意思是,停止寻找后面相关的代码。

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There are a lot of ways in which a red light means neither "stop" nor "go," but we are sort of confining ourselves so far to the ways in which a red light has something to do with locomotion or the lack thereof.

很多时候红灯既不表示停,也不表示走“,但是我们却惯性的认为,红灯就是提示开始或者停止移动。

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It comes spontaneously to us to say "red light" means "stop."

那我们就是自发的认知“

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All right, but still it's a red light, right, and our hypothesis is that the red light has positive value in the sense that it means a certain thing. It means, we say, "stop."

它是一个红灯，我们假设红灯主动自带含义,它代表着，停“

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It ought to mean "to go forward" with everything behind it, but needless to say her thoughts on the subject were never implemented because if one day red light means "stop" and the next day red light means "go," there might be a few problems.

它因该表示勇往直前，当然她的想法没有实现,因为如果红灯今天表示停,明天表示走，会天下大乱的。

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