To many, a legend must be a story, with characters and some sort of plot.

对许多人来说，传奇必须是一个故事，有人物和某种情节。

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The story has a complicated plot.

故事的情节是曲折的。

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Embedded within the explicit plot of the simile is a secret, a kind of buried narrative, and it's a hidden story that illustrates Satan's self-destruction.

深藏在这个比喻精巧的情节布局里的，是一个秘密，一个被深埋已久的故事，一个隐藏着的，阐述了撒旦自我毁灭的故事。

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Embedded within the explicit plot of the simile is a secret, a kind of buried narrative, and it's a hidden story that illustrates Satan's self-destruction.

深藏在这个比喻精巧的情节布局里的，是一个秘密，一个被深埋已久的故事，一个隐藏着的，阐述了撒旦自我毁灭的故事。

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For one thing, he didn't invent a sort of image, he invented a story wrote and collaborated on the plot of Citizen Kane.

他并没有创造一种形象，他在《公民凯恩》的情节中,创造了一种角色的合作关系。

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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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What opera-goers seem to want is the tried and trusted formula which attracts them to the operatic classics not media images, post-modern playfulness, overt politics or heavy symbolism, but a compelling human story, a gripping plot and a varied but fundamentally tuneful score.

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Entwined with this plot is a love story in which Wallace finds a soul mate.

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Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot.

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