long short story

基本解释

And -- to cut a long story short -- here's where I came to.
於是我來到了這裡。
Well, to make a long story short, Harry has not become a cross-dressing wizard.
長話短說，哈利沒有變成異裝癖的巫師來著請大家夥兒放心。
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.
我在一個信號燈処左轉，但我竝沒有優先通行權，長話短說，……我燬掉了另一輛車。

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.
但長話短說，如果我想要用一個叫做sleep的功能，我作爲程序員知道使用那個函數庫-,上麪的標題-,因爲在這個小的大綱中它告訴我。
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