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  • n.短篇小说
  • Web短篇故事；短故事；小故事
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short story
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1.
短篇小说a story, usually about imaginary characters and events, that is short enough to be read from beginning to end without stopping

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The Internet may be disrupting much of the book industry, but for short-story writers it has been a good thing.
互联网可能正在颠覆图书行业的多个领域，但是对于短篇小说作家来说却是一件好事。
hù lián wǎng kě néng zhèng zài diān fù tú shū háng yè de duō gè lǐng yù , dàn shì duì yú duǎn piān xiǎo shuō zuò jiā lái shuō què shì yī jiàn hǎo shì 。
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In 2007, when she was still expected to survive, I wrote a short story about her illness and deliberately gave it a happy ending.
2007年，当时医生认为她可以活下来。我写了一篇短篇小说，下意识地写了一个快乐的结局。
èr líng líng qī nián , dāng shí yī shēng rèn wéi tā kě yǐ huó xià lái 。 wǒ xiě le yī piān duǎn piān xiǎo shuō , xià yì shí de xiě le yī gè kuài lè de jié jú 。
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3.
I still fall into that trap every once in a while and I have to force myself to sit down and pound out a few pages of a short story.
我偶尔还是会掉入这样的陷阱，而这时我就会强迫自己坐下来，敲出一篇几页纸的短篇故事。
wǒ ǒu ěr hái shì huì diào rù zhè yàng de xiàn jǐng , ér zhè shí wǒ jiù huì qiǎng pò zì jǐ zuò xià lái , qiāo chū yī piān jǐ yè zhǐ de duǎn piān gù shi 。
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4.
It is written in the present tense and tells the entire screenplay as if it were a short story.
文案一般使用现在时撰写，并将剧本的主要情节改写为一个短篇故事。
wén àn yì bān shǐ yòng xiàn zài shí zhuàn xiě , bìng jiāng jù běn de zhǔ yào qíng jié gǎi xiě wéi yī gè duǎn piān gù shi 。
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Usually mentioned as one of the leading short story writers, Maupassant has long been a neglected novelist.
莫泊桑是世界上数一数二的短篇小说大师，他在长篇小说创作上的成就往往因此而被湮没。
mò pō sāng shì shì jiè shàng shǔ yī shǔ èr de duǎn piān xiǎo shuō dà shī , tā zài cháng piān xiǎo shuō chuàng zuò shàng de chéng jiù wǎng wǎng yīn cǐ ér bèi yān mò 。
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He grew up to be an internationally acclaimed poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, and lyricist.
邓巴长大后成为一个国际知名的诗人、短篇小说作家、小说家、剧作家，以及歌词创作者。
dèng bā zhǎng dà hòu chéng wéi yī gè guó jì zhī míng de shī rén 、 duǎn piān xiǎo shuō zuò jiā 、 xiǎo shuō jiā 、 jù zuò jiā , yǐ jí gē cí chuàng zuò zhě 。
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I worked up the courage to show him something new, a primitive short story written in what I fancied to be the dark Russian manner.
我鼓起勇气约他看我的一篇新作，一个粗糙的短篇故事，自己认为是仿效俄国阴郁的笔调写的。
wǒ gǔ qǐ yǒng qì yuē tā kàn wǒ de yī piān xīn zuò , yī gè cū cāo de duǎn piān gù shi , zì jǐ rèn wéi shì fǎng xiào é guó yīn yù de bǐ diào xiě de 。
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And whatever his flaws as a novelist, his growing mastery of the short-story form continued to define him as a writer.
他作为一个小说家的缺点先不去评说，他对短篇小说的驾驭能力不断增长。
tā zuò wéi yī gè xiǎo shuō jiā de quē diǎn xiān bù qù píng shuō , tā duì duǎn piān xiǎo shuō de jià yù néng lì bú duàn zēng zhǎng 。
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Out of the Garden of Eden Biblical Archetype in the Short Story, "The Enormous Radio"
走出伊甸园——短篇小说“一台宏大的收音机”中的圣经原型
zǒu chū yī diàn yuán — — duǎn piān xiǎo shuō " yī tái hóng dà de shōu yīn jī " zhōng de shèng jīng yuán xíng
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Epigraph: A quotation or motto at the beginning of a chapter, book, short story, or poem that makes some point about the work.
题词：在一章、一本书、短篇小说或诗歌的开头指涉作品内容的引文或铭文。
tí cí : zài yī zhāng 、 yī běn shū 、 duǎn piān xiǎo shuō huò shī gē de kāi tóu zhǐ shè zuò pǐn nèi róng de yǐn wén huò míng wén 。
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