stoplight

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As we leave the beach in the Volvo, we approach a stoplight on a narrow street.
当我们坐进沃尔沃时，我们在一条窄小的街道上打起了红色尾灯。
These memories range from the profound (who am I and how did I get here?) to the most trivial (the license plate of the car at a stoplight).
这些记忆可以很深奥（我是谁还有我怎么来到这的？）也可以是最琐碎的（红灯停车时看到的某辆车的牌照）。
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As he watched, a pickup truck followed the van through the stoplight and slid sideways into the van, pinning the woman between the vehicles.
正在他看着时，一辆敞篷小货车跟着那辆面包车穿过红绿灯，从侧面滑向面包车，把那个女人卡在车子中间。

It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.
也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。
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One time, I paid a beggar when I was driving in my car and I was stopped to the stoplight,
有一次，我给过乞丐钱，当时我在开车，正在等红灯，
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As I say, there's a certain instability which could never apply in the semiotics of the stoplight because there it's not so much a question of but rather the insistence that the color is just that color.
我承认，颜色的选择有时候是有规律的,但是在语义学上这解释不通,因为他们不考虑,但是语义学家认为颜色只单纯表示颜色。
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What about waiting for a long stoplight or sitting at a restaurant counter?
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A stoplight is a set of coloured lights which controls the flow of traffic on a road.