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单词 red light
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Chinese translation of 'red light'

red light

n

  1. to go through a red light 闯(闖)红(紅)灯(燈) (chuǎng hóngdēng)

red light

Word forms: plural red lights
1. countable noun
A red light is a traffic signal which shines red to indicate that drivers must stop.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
The red-light district of a city is the area where prostitutes work.

red light in British English

noun
1. 
a signal to stop, esp a red traffic signal in a system of traffic lights
2. 
a danger signal
3. 
an instruction to stop or discontinue
4. 
a. 
a red lamp in a window of or outside a house indicating that it is a brothel
b. 
(as modifier)
a red-light district

red light in American English

1. 
any danger or warning signal; specif., a red lamp, flare, etc.
2. 
a red stoplight

Examples of 'red light' in a sentence
red light

The system will also tell motorists stopped at a red light how long they will have to wait for green.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It was somewhere between blue rinse and red light district.
The Sun (2015)
We were stopped at a red light.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We stopped at a red light and saw him thrashing around.
The Sun (2012)
We had stopped at a red light next to a car full of tourists.
Sidney Sheldon The Other Side of Me
 Stopping at red lights will be optional.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
 Stopping at red lights should be enforced too.
The Sun (2013)
He failed to stop at a red light.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
On an office wall on the outskirts of a northern town is a map highlighting the red light district.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There they visited the red light area, he said.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Put on the red light This utilitarian lamp is the brightest crimson.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She drove around the red light area searching for Tania.
The Sun (2008)
Amsterdam's red light district has sprawled over the city.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It wasn't the police car that scared me enough to stop running red lights.
Christianity Today (2000)
It did not stop but shot through some red lights, only stopping on the other side.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Bring on the red lights, traffic jams, road works!
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The Ipswich party had to stay in a hotel of ill repute just a stone's throw from the notorious red light district.
Leo McKinstry Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest FootballManager (2006)
But then they always do - with football coming a distant third to the all-day drinking and pull of the red light district.
The Sun (2006)
I tried to make my way back but came across a red light area where I got lured in.
The Sun (2008)

In other languages
red light

British English: red light NOUN
A red light is a traffic signal which shines red to indicate that drivers must stop.
  • American English: red light
  • Brazilian Portuguese: sinal vermelho
  • Chinese: 红灯
  • European Spanish: semáforo en rojo
  • French: feu rouge
  • German: Rotlicht
  • Italian: rossodi semaforo
  • Japanese: 赤信号
  • Korean: 빨간 신호등
  • European Portuguese: sinal vermelho
  • Latin American Spanish: semáforo en rojo
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