阿卜耶伊的故事是苏丹南北冲突的背后起因仍未改变的明显证据。

The story of Abyei is stark proof that the underlying causes of north-south conflict in Sudan have not changed.

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警方一位发言人表示，他们在圣诞节那天对这名女子进行了审问，后者最终承认整个故事都是她自己一手编造出来的，而事情的起因在于她欠该快餐店内某个同事25欧元(17英镑)可眼下又无力偿还这笔债务。

A spokesman said the woman was questioned over the Christmas holiday and admitted she made up the story because she owed a colleague 25 euros (17 pounds) and did not have the money to pay her debt.

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Aristotle tells us that a plot has a beginning, a middle and an end.

亚里士多德告诉我们，故事都要有起因，经过，结果。

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Duh!" of course, is our response, and yet at the same time we can't understand a degree of mystery in even so seemingly simple a pronouncement. A beginning, of course--well, it has to have a beginning.

我们肯定要说：“废话！这不是明摆着的么！“，但同时,我们并不能深刻理解这样一个看似浅显的观点,起因，当然啦，一个故事总要有个开头。

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