胡安安静地坐着听完了这个长篇故事。

Juan sat quietly through the telling of this saga.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我向某杂志社投寄一长篇故事。

I contributeed a long story to a magazine.

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一个长篇故事可以缩写成几句话。

A long story can be condensed into a few sentences.

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So, long story short after this fairly arcane syntax, the end result is completely straightforward, do the following 10 times.

如此看来，这个长篇故事经过这个奇异的语法规则，简化后就立马简单明朗了许多，只需要重复做10次就OK了。

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