I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

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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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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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