It's no use talking about the negative relationship between a red light and a green light and a yellow, white, or blue one because they all have the same value.

讲什么它是红灯，不是绿灯,不是黄灯白灯一点关系都没有,它们所代表的意义都一样。

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He is simply interested in saying as much as he can about certain local effects, certainly with the implication, possibly, that this has a bearing on our understanding of, ; let's say, the whole of Macbeth; but he doesn't set about doing a systematic reading of the whole of Macbeth.

他只对作出详尽的具体分析有兴趣,当然会有一些暗示，这对我们理解，麦克白造成了影响;,但是他没有,关于麦克白全文的系统解读。

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