green light

基本解释

We repudiate the outrageous speech made by President Bush yesterday, which gave a green light to a new Israeli escalation of the conflict.
我们拒绝接受昨天布什总统发表的残暴无耻的演讲，布什的讲话为以色列新的冲突升级大开绿灯。
The treatment success rate for MDR-TB patients in projects approved by the Green Light Committee (GLC) was over 60%, and was higher than in non-GLC projects.
在绿灯委员会批准的项目中耐多药结核患者的治疗成功率超过60%，并且高于非绿灯委员会项目中的成功率。
Atoms and molecules above 50 kilometers in the atmosphere are excited by sunlight during the day, and then release this energy at night, producing primarily green light that is observable from orbit.
白天，50千米以上的大气层中原子和分子吸收太阳光的能量，夜晚又将这些能量释放出来，主要产生出我们从轨道上看到的绿色光。

We want you to know we have a green light to continue this series next week.
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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Levine the Court gave a bright green light to personal injury lawyers filing crippling lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies.
FORBES: Supremely Destructive Stupidity