"The policeman who ran into them was not only drunk, but had gone through a red light and had no siren on.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

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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Here you've got a red light which doesn't seem to enter into this sense of the arbitrary and differential.

这里，红灯看起来并没有,任意性和差异性。

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A red light means get into position. Yellow light means ready.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

I wish it didn't say "exit," but it does say "exit," because that kind of weakens my point, but over many auditorium doors a red light just hangs there.

如果这些灯上没有注明出口就好了“,因为这样会削弱我要证明的观点，礼堂的门上一般会挂着一盏红灯。

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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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All right. Just some other examples: a red light over a street door.

好吧，现在让我们看看例子：,临街门上的红灯。

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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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this is perhaps the most interesting thing because it forces us to show the complexity, to see the complexity, of semiotic relationships: a red light, just to return to the Christian holiday, a red light on a Christmas tree.

现在我们讲到了一个耐人寻味论点,这个问题迫使我们要思考，符号系统之间复杂的联系：,当我们再圣诞节时看到红灯，圣诞树上的红灯。

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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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In that case the red light would be a beacon which means "forward," "go," "follow me," "damn the torpedoes." Right?

他就很可能代表,出发，跟我来等等意思，对吧？

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Well, suppose the red light appeared on or as the nose of a reindeer.

但是当它出现在驯鹿的鼻子上时。

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Obviously, it doesn't mean "come in" in the sense of the red light over a street door.

当然，它不像临街灯一样表示,进来吧。

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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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