This is not a love story, but a life story.

这不是一个爱情故事，而是生活故事。

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It's not a love story, but a story about love.

这不是一个爱情故事，而是一个关于爱的故事。

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No, this is not a love story.

不，这不是一个爱情故事。

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But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

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The hero of the story is in love with a woman who--alas and alack--does not love him.

主角爱上了一位女子，可是那女子并不爱他。

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Mr. Doyle, who also designed the set for this production, has approached "Passion" not as a naturalistic love story but as a piece of lyric theater, placing it in the simplest of environments, an open thrust stage, and arranging the actors in quasiballetic stage groupings that are as poetic as the songs they sing.

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The action starts with a kiss, like a love story in reverse, except that what impels the kissers is not passion but a sluggish technical curiosity.

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But advance reaction to its single outing to date, at the Tokyo Film Festival, suggests that James Cameron has excelled himself as director, with a spectacle that does not dwarf the central love story between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

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