short short story

基本解释

Let me digress for a moment and tell you a short story.
请允许我暂时离开话题一会儿，我给你讲个小故事。
If so, use it as a point of departure for a short story, or for tomorrow's freewriting exercise.
如果有的话，就以这一小点作为短篇故事的出发点，或者用来作为明天随笔的练习。
No one fainted the first time I read the short story, 'Guts'.
我第一次读《肠子》这个短篇故事的时候没人晕倒。

To hear the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, listen at this time Saturday for the program AMERICAN STORIES.
It's a huge book which is all about this short story by Balzac, "Sarrasine," that he begins this essay by quoting.
这本大部头的书都是在讲巴尔扎克的短篇小说《沙拉辛》的，在文章开头他引用道。
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I'd like to close with a short story of recent interaction that I had with a video over the internet.
我想用一个小故事来结束,是最近我关于网络视频的互动作用。
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With a short story, you know, it's something short enough you can just pound it out, you know, at a sitting or two.
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