The sharp contrast of beauty and ugliness in Notre- Da me de Paris has an important effect on developing the plot of a story, portraying typical characters and expressing the author feelings.

文章从美学角度对《药》作了较为详细的分析，指出《药》具有结构美、悲美、丑美等美学特征，虽然情节描写有许多悲愤之处，但给人以美的感受，是一种悲美。

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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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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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.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

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The film, which opens this weekend, tells the amazingly true story of a CIA plot to rescue six American stuck in the Canadian embassy during the Iranian hostage crisis with a fake movie.

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The quirk of this movie is that, for all its pretensions to topical soothsaying and its sombre machinations of plot, it remains, in essence, a love story.

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The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

WSJ: Gov't probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records