Common wisdom holds that when we share information about a story or plot that is important, it somehow "spoils" the story (hence the term, spoilers).

人们通常的看法是，当我们泄露一个故事，或者一段关键情节时，那么就或多或少“糟蹋”了这个故事。

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At that time, every day I was painting a lot of pictures which have story plot. But I deliberately disorder the paper or not to draw a plot, because I don't expect others understand it.

我当时画了很多画每天都画，是有故事情节的那种，但是我会故意把画的每张纸的顺序打乱或者有一个情节故意不画出来，因为我不希望别人能看懂。

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Shorten time or speed the story rhythm, all can increase nervous degree of the plot.

缩短时间或者加快故事节奏，均可以增加剧情的紧张程度。

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Syuzhet is the plot, the way in which a story is constructed, and the fabula is the subject matter or material out of which the syuzhet is made.

syuzhet“是情节，也就是故事的来龙去脉，而“fabula“则是主题方面，也就是,故事和内容是怎样呈现的。

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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.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary opera