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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And then confronted with a new case, we found ourselves reexamining those principles, revising each in the light of the other.

当我们面临新的情况时，我们重新检验这些原则，根据新的情况修正这些理由或原则。

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Let's make the red light the symbol of 'go.'" And now with the ecological movement it would be very difficult to make the green light the symbol of "stop," and in any case all sorts of complications would arise. Right?

我们来假设，红灯的意思是出发“,那么难道,绿灯的意思是停止吗？,这样会引起各种不必要的麻烦？

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Murder is murder in every way and our society looks at murder down on the same light and I don't think it's any different in any case.

不论怎么解释，谋杀依然是谋杀,社会对待谋杀是一视同仁的,不论如何，都没有任何不同。

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