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

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Well,you can't tell by thinking about the normal case, because the B-functioning and the P-functioning stop at the same time.

这从通常的例子中是研究不出来的，因为生理功能和人格功能同时结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You can stop me any time and you should not feel somehow you are stopping the progress of the class.

你可以在任何时候打断我,而且你不必担心,你的问题就会打断课堂的进程

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He says the Council has devoted a disproportionate amount of time on Israel and that has to stop.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

You're on the phone with this guy all the time and you sniff something out, you can maybe stop it.

如果你和某人经常通话联系,并且嗅出了问题,你也许就不会借钱给他们了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She told the gathering it is time to stop all the talk about gender parity, and to take steps to ensure it happens soon.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

Cells can stop in their lifetime at some point in the cell cycle and persist for long periods of time.

细胞生命期可以停止在细胞周期的某个点,并保持很长时间

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It was the first time that Tehran has threatened to stop using the euro.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

This is an excellent time to stop the lecture so I'm going to stop the lecture and we're going to continue social psychology on Wednesday.

现在是结束本节课的好时机,所以本节课到此为止,我们星期三继续讲社会心理学。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's the time where we stop the class and you look inward.

这段时间会我们停止课程，进行内省。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选