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

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Milton shows unusually little interest in the miraculousness of the conception or anything like the domestic details of the manger scene.

不同寻常的是，弥尔顿没有太对,怀孕这一奇迹或其他的事情感兴趣,像马槽这个内在的细节。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There are nonetheless a few details from the classical underworld that he seems to have lifted more or less wholesale and one of them - I'm going to ask you to look at page 246 in the Hughes.

然而弥尔顿书中还是有一些描写传统地狱的小细节,他似乎多多少少大规模地盗用了那些细节,我想让你们看《力士参孙》一书的246页。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Or at least it should be. Internet users can get the full details at practicalaction.org.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Another way of saying it is, anything that uses get float doesn't care what the details are inside or shouldn't, and if I change that definition, I don't have to change anything elsewhere in my code, whereas if I just have the raw code in there, I have to go off and do it.

换种说法就是，任何用到获取,输入这个功能的人不用担心具体的实现细节,如果我改变了这里的实现，我并不需要去改变我的代码,因为我的最底处的源码就在这里,我去改这里就可以了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

From time to time, they wandered to Egypt or Mesopotamia often in search of pasture for their animals. And various details of their language, their customs, their laws, their religion, it's argued, seem to fit well into the period of the Late Bronze Age.

时而不时的，他们常在埃及或美索不达米亚游荡,为他们的牲口寻找牧场，大量关于他们的语言,他们的习俗，他们的律法，他们的宗教的细节，据说，都与融入了后青铜时期的特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All right, before I move on, are there any questions about details of the class or requirements, or readings, or anything people are having trouble getting on top of?

好了,对于在我开始讲课前,讲的关于课程以及要求,还有问题吗,大家还有没有不懂的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In fact, the first PhD degree in engineering was awarded to a fellow named J. Willard Gibbs at Yale in 1863 for a thesis he did on how gears work or something, I forget exactly what the details are, but have you heard of Gibbs?

事实上 工程学的第一个博士学位授予了,一个名叫约西亚?威拉德?吉布斯的人,在一八六三年的耶鲁,他的论文是关于传动装置是如何工作的,细节方面的东西我记不清了,你们听说过吉布斯这个人么

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Pseudocode is kind of an English-like syntax that's just a useful way of expressing yourself fairly succinctly, fairly computer-like but without having to worry about stupid details like whether it's Java or C or whatever.

伪码是一种类似英语的语法,可以简洁地,表达自己的意思，它与电脑类似,但是你不用担心那些愚蠢的细节,比如Java，C语言或者其他什么语言。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选