一段灰暗而感伤的情节慢慢展开，最后是一个不可避免的幼稚可笑的结局。

A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.

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接下来是最后一个戏剧元素——结局或决议，这时所有开放的情节都必须按符合逻辑的方式联系起来。

That's followed by the final dramatic element—the denouement or the resolution, when all the loose ends have to be tied up in a logical way.

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我们感到自豪，因为我们是那些老得不行了的动物们的最后的避难所，我们给它们了一个人道的结局。

We are proud to be a shelter of last resort that takes in old broken animals and gives them a humane end.

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It promises something like the power of God as he brings the shattering close of the entire Christian narrative to an end at the Last Judgment and beyond.

它承诺了类似上帝权力,上帝为所有基督教徒带来了令人震惊的结局,在最后审判日及以后的日子，以叙述方式带来了结束。

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and she doesn't see it at all until right at the end when there's a denouement, sort of revelation,

但是，她直到最后的结局才恍然大悟，算是一种启示，

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.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

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