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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I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

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Anyway, they said, look you go to any train station and there are these red caps or porters and they'll carry your suitcase for you.

总之，他们说你可以去任何一个车站,那里有很多搬运工,他们可以替你扛行李。

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we race off under the compulsion of the meaning of the red light, which is "go," right?

他看到红鼻子的驯鹿就出发了，因为红色代表出发，对吗？

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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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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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It ought to mean "to go forward" with everything behind it, but needless to say her thoughts on the subject were never implemented because if one day red light means "stop" and the next day red light means "go," there might be a few problems.

它因该表示勇往直前，当然她的想法没有实现,因为如果红灯今天表示停,明天表示走，会天下大乱的。

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