A red light means get into position. Yellow light means ready.

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And this means that the yellow cells on the right side are mouse hair cells in a chicken inner ear.

也就是说，右边黄色部分,代表的是小鸡内耳中的老鼠细胞。

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Now if all we have to go on is just this semiotic system, it's going to be kind of hard to put up resistance to by the same token we'll say "yellow" means "pause," "green" means "go."

而从语义学角度分析，我们必须不能这么想,这样绿色自然就表示继续，黄色表示暂停“

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