如果听者不专心，这表明你应该缩短故事或改变话题。
If the listener is not paying attention, it's your sign to shorten the story or change direction.
为什么不拍一部关于那场战争的真实故事的电影呢？
我哥哥听了这个故事就睡着了，从那以后他再也不害怕飞蛾了。
My brother went to sleep with that story and hasn't feared moths since then.
“不，”她回答道，“我只是想讲一个天使上一年级的故事。”
"No," she replied, "I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade."
但是故事的确指出，但我们授誉英雄时，我们不总是也让我们自己感到荣耀。
But the story does point out that when we honor our heroes, we don't always honor ourselves.
他喜欢讲这个故事，因为听上去一点也不浪漫却总是开怀大笑，这才是关键。
He loves to tell the story because it sounds so unromantic and always gets a laugh, which is the point.
同时，我们不希望我们的故事掩盖了那些绝望的出逃者的严重的生存困境。
At the same time, though, we do not want our story to overshadow the critical plight of these desperate defectors.
不，当我看完这版《西区故事》后，我在想，到了2009年，这部久负盛名的音乐剧是否还具有娱乐性，是否还能承担如此的赞誉。
No, I came to West Side Story simply to find out whether, in 2009, the show still entertains, excites, lives up to its gargantuan reputation.
但在上午11点，证实警报不确，团聚的一家人回来，尝试在一片狼藉中重建家园，这是难能可贵的生还故事。
But the 11am alarm proved to be false and the reunited family returned to try and rebuild their home. Amid the devastation, there have been precious few tales of survival.
16岁的蒂芙尼哈里斯被伯杰的故事深深打动，她说，如果她看到了不道义的罪恶行为，她会以发言和写信的方式参与进来与之斗争。
Moved by Berger's story and his message, Tiffany Harris, 16, said if she sees an injustice being committed, she will get involved by speaking up and writing letters.
在今日的流行文化中，人们将吐温看作“不卖炸鸡的桑德斯上校，善于讲故事的慈祥大伯，”这是“马克·吐温这一生”的作者荣·鲍厄斯在电话采访中说的话。
In popular culture today, Twain is "Colonel Sanders without the chicken, the avuncular man who told stories," Ron Powers, the author of "Mark Twain: a Life," said in a phone interview.
这个故事不也暗喻了我们其他人的生活么？
This story is just a metaphor for the rest of us in our lives.
我们不囤积信息；我们让原创的文件和新闻故事变得可用。
We don't hoard our information; we make the original documents available with our news stories.
在殖民教育系统里，早熟的阿奇比卓然不群，沉迷于阅读各种英文经典作品，尽管非洲人在讲故事方面并不长足。
As a precociously gifted schoolboy Achebe thrived in the colonial education system and enjoyed reading the English literary Canon, even if Africans rarely fared well in its stories.
每一天，都有层出不穷的美丽爱情故事诞生在网上。
Many beautiful love stories have been born on the Web, and more and more are made each day.
最终，我们不寻求成功的故事，因为我们一直在创造。
And at the end, we're not looking for a success story, because we've been creating it all along.
编辑大笑，说道：“不，我可以非常老实地告诉你我们从来没有杜撰过任何一个故事。
The editor laughed and said, "No, I can tell you with 100% honesty that we never made up a single story.
一名来自Johannesbur附近的一个乡镇Tembisa，28岁幸存下来的、不希望被记名的女子，讲述了这个故事。
Among those to have survived to tell the tale is a 28-year-old from Tembisa, a township near Johannesburg, who does not wish to be named.
有的喜欢，有的说不，不，这是我的故事，怎么可以算做你的？
"Some liked it, some said 'no, no, that's my story, what did you do?"
所以作者把“巴纳·巴斯的故事”置于了书的最后，这一点毫不奇怪。
It is not surprising that the "Barnabas story" is placed at the end of the book.
动物们都讨厌摩西，因为他只讲故事不劳作。但还是有一些动物相信糖果山的传说，这使猪不得不非常辛苦的说服他们并不存在这样一个地方。
The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place.
“他们是一些两耳不闻窗外事的孩子，所以故事总是一样。”他说。
They‘ re dweebishly nerdy kids, and the story is always the same,” he said.
(除了上面提到的故事)，这里有一个恐怖故事，据说汇丰的资本定义是不包含资产证券化过程中的市值损失。
Against this there is a horror story. It says that HSBC's definition of capital excludes mark-to-market losses on asset-backed securities (ABS).
不，只记得读过，它是最著名的故事之一。
今天我要讲给大家听的是一个妇女的故事，她有自己的一间小屋和一个小花园，但她还是开心不起来。
She had a little house of her own, a little garden too, this woman of whom I am going to tell you, but for all that she was not quite happy.
如果剧情不总是在南希·麦尔斯式的背景中展开的话，整个故事会变得更有张力。
The narrative would have more tension if they didn't appear so comfortably padded in a Nancy Meyers–like milieu.
脱离地球大气层是个极危险的游戏，且不提它导致的那些众所周知的大灾难，很多可怕、怪诞而荒唐的小故事也因此层出不穷。
Leaving Earth's atmosphere is a dangerous endeavor and, major tragedies aside, there have been a number of smaller terrifying, grotesque and absurd episodes to come out of it.
故事总是层出不穷的，但肥皂剧不能仅限于讲故事——如果这一观念被广泛认可的话，那么我们就得换换脑筋了。
There will always be stories to tell. But the soap opera genre is about more than just about telling stories--and if that is a widely-held belief, it needs to be changed.
故事总是层出不穷的，但肥皂剧不能仅限于讲故事——如果这一观念被广泛认可的话，那么我们就得换换脑筋了。
There will always be stories to tell. But the soap opera genre is about more than just about telling stories--and if that is a widely-held belief, it needs to be changed.
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