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

VOA: special.2010.07.25

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

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

I want her to stop criticizing me and making too many demands on my time.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

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

"It is time to put a stop to this,sir.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

OK, so it's time to stop, I did, in fact, get caught up.

好，时间要到了，我最终还是讲完了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

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 is time to stop holding workers laid off in this recession hostage to Washington politics."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

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

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

If you eat food for a long time and then you stop, let's say a high sugar diet or something and withdrawal symptoms occur, well that might mean addiction is occurring.

如果你长期吃某种食物,一旦停止食用,例如高糖饮食之类,就会出现戒断反应,这也许说明你已经上瘾了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And every time Mexican President Felipe Calderon calls for it to stop.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

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

"It's time to do what's right for America's working families and put aside partisanship, stop saying things that aren't true, come together as a nation, pass health insurance reform now this year."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

I was going to start showing you some examples, but I think, rather than doing that, I'm going to stop here, I'm going to give you two minutes back of time, but I want to just point out to you that we are going to have fun next week, because I'm going to show you what in the world that has to do with efficiency.

我想再给你们讲解一些例子，但是我想想还是算了吧，给你们两分钟休息时间,但是我想告诉你们,我们下周的课,会很有意思,我会告诉你们,到底是什么决定了效率。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选