It means, rather, a perfect grasp of the gist of the story, with sufficient familiarity with its form to determine the manner of its telling.

在某种程度上来说，自由回想就意味着一种抓住故事精髓的理想方式：对故事形式充分了解，以此来决定讲述的方式。

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Successful headlines tell the gist of the story in a few powerful words.

成功的标题要醒目，让读者迅速了解文章的主旨。

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Though critics panned Warcraft, saying it crammed a large cast and a dense plot into two short hours, even casual viewers are still able to get the gist of the story.

即使也有一些负面影评认为该片将大阵容和密集的情节放在短短两个小时里太过填鸭，但实际上，就算是普通观众仍旧可以看懂影片的主旨。

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That was the gist of a cover story I wrote for Forbes magazine last month.

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It's great for getting the gist of a news story that's published in Japanese or Finnish, but if I need to write a formal letter to someone in one of those languages, I'd get human help.

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The gist of the story is that Jill Kelley, a social planner in Tampa started getting approximately 10 menacing emails from an anonymous harasser.

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