the long and the short of
问题描述：
the long and the short of
Furthermore,the money that surrounds drugs attracts increasingly violent criminals,all trying to get a piece of the pie.The long and the short of it is that when drugs take hold,they quickly become a disease that is very hard to get rid of.
答
固定词组：the long and the short of it “概括的意思”
可以翻译为：一言以蔽之；换句话说；总而言之等等.