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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Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.

交通灯，三种灯，红黄绿，它们的颜色和彼此不能,我们有两种方式认识红灯的意思。

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