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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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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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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