run a red light
①
The police fined her for driving through/jumping a red light.
警察因为她开车闯红灯而对她进行罚款。
②
He gunned the cab through the red light.
他猛踩油门，开着出租汽车闯过了红灯。
③
It's illegal to drive through a red light.
开车闯红灯是违法行为。
④
He failed to stop at a red light.
他没有在红灯前停车。
Our second common verb is a very bad thing to do -- run a red light!
我们提到的第二个关键词，不是个好词——闯红灯！
So first of all, red light...when you are driving
首先，你正在开车，红灯亮了。
You might come to something that looks like this where you'll have a green light, a yellow light and a red light.
在开车的时候，我们会经常看看一个这样的标志，也就是我们常说的红绿灯。
Green, of course means go.
绿灯当然是表示通行。
What does red mean?
那红灯呢？
It means to stop!
就表示停车
So if you don't hit the brakes, and you see the red, and you keep driving, and you drive fast even though you see the red.
所以看到红灯亮了你不踩刹车，闭着眼一直开，而且速度很快，尽管你已经看到了红灯。
It means, you run a red light.
这就是闯红灯。
So this is a very bad thing to do.
所以这样做非常不好呦！
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