long short story

基本解釋

And -- to cut a long story short -- here's where I came to.
于是我來(lái)到了這里。
Well, to make a long story short, Harry has not become a cross-dressing wizard.
長(zhǎng)話短說(shuō)，哈利沒(méi)有變成異裝癖的巫師來(lái)著請(qǐng)大家伙兒放心。
I made a left turn at a stop-light where I didn’t have the right-of-way; to make a long story short, … I demolished yet another car.
我在一個(gè)信號(hào)燈處左轉(zhuǎn)，但我并沒(méi)有優(yōu)先通行權(quán)，長(zhǎng)話短說(shuō)，……我毀掉了另一輛車。

But long story short, if I want to use a function called sleep, -- the reason I, the programmer, knew to use that library -- -- that header at the top -- because it told me to in this little synopsis.
但長(zhǎng)話短說(shuō)，如果我想要用一個(gè)叫做sleep的功能，我作為程序員知道使用那個(gè)函數(shù)庫(kù)-,上面的標(biāo)題-,因?yàn)樵谶@個(gè)小的大綱中它告訴我。
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