Caldwell's words were beautiful. But Bourke-White's pictures could have told the story by themselves.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

There are a variety of ways, in other words, in which this story, just like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could end.

有很多种方式，换言之，在这个故事里，就像《古航海家之歌》一样，结局有很多种可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is no longer, in other words, that which drives the line in the story.

换句话说，它不再是引领故事发展的主线。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That means it tells its story through pictures as well as words.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

By the end of the story, in other words, there is implied a plot.

到了结尾，它们建构了整个故事情节。

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Frank Borman's disappointed words from space told the story.

VOA: special.2009.07.01