这个小孩被小说的情节吸引住了。

This child was fascinated by the plots in the novel.

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在写作中，你会发现从句子中的短语到小说的情节，每一个层面都是对称的。

In writing, you find symmetry at every level, from the phrases in a sentence to the plot of a novel.

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这部小说的情节错综复杂，引人入胜。

The plot of the novel is intricate and fascinating.

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Things just don't happen the way they happen in nurse novels and bodice-rippers -in which somehow or another the pauper marries the prince.

现实生活中不会发生像,？护士小说和浪漫情欲小说中发生的那些事情,在那些情节中，穷姑娘莫名其妙地嫁给了王子。

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So, this is a more complex and, sort of, dense example of how that consumer, that push to consume, that consumer sense drives and motivates the novel and plays out in what they see when they are on the road.

这是个更复杂更难懂的例子，它有关那些消费者，怎样推动消费和消费者的意识怎样驱动小说情节发展,及演变出他们在路上看到的各种事物。

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It's that they seem also--and this is one of the reasons -- Brooks does have recourse to this particular text of Freud-- they also have the curious tendency to revisit unpleasurable things.

而事实上--这一点,是布鲁克斯完全照搬弗洛伊德的-,小说还会抱有一种好奇的心态重温情节中不愉快的部分。

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