long short story

基本解释

And -- to cut a long story short -- here's where I came to.
于是我来到了这里。
Well, to make a long story short, Harry has not become a cross-dressing wizard.
长话短说，哈利没有变成异装癖的巫师来着请大家伙儿放心。
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.
我在一个信号灯处左转，但我并没有优先通行权，长话短说，……我毁掉了另一辆车。

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.
但长话短说，如果我想要用一个叫做sleep的功能，我作为程序员知道使用那个函数库-,上面的标题-,因为在这个小的大纲中它告诉我。
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