tail light

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He drove into the back of my truck and smashed the tail light .
他開車撞進(jìn)我卡車的后部，把我的尾燈撞得粉碎。
Another C.O. shows Bellick the broken tail light as Patterson brings over a local man who says he saw a blue van parked there earlier.
另一個獄警將車尾燈碎片指給Bellick看，Patterson帶了一個當(dāng)?shù)厝诉^來，他說看見早先有一輛藍(lán)色貨車停在這里。
Even a Los Angeles Police Department officer who stopped her because of a burned-out tail light was impressed, she said. "He told me, 'You look really familiar.
也有洛杉磯的一位警官，因?yàn)樗裏龎牡奈矡魯r住了她的車，驚嘆道“你看上去很眼熟。

Even something as trivial as a broken tail light can mean failure.
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Strange business at this time of night, Nawab thought, the tail-light of the motorcycle casting a reddish glow around them on the ground.
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a red light on the back of a road vehicle that makes it possible for the vehicle to be seen in the dark