Zhang Yimou takes "red lantern" as a thread of the story, relating to fates of figures.

张艺谋则代之以红灯笼，它作为一种载体既存在于故事中，又与人物的命运相关。

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Or, if I'm in the middle of a long story, and we're interrupted, and the other person shows no interest in picking up the thread of the dropped conversation, I order myself to let it go.

或者，如果我在给对方讲述一段长故事时中途被外界打断而对方似乎对重提不感兴趣，那么我会命令自己不再提起。

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I must have skipped a page, because I lost the thread of the story.

我肯定跳过一页，因为我弄不清故事的脉络了。

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But as often happens in art, each of these story lines has a thread of truth.

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That narrative thread in The Wizard Of Oz gets a little off-track as the story lurches toward denouement .

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Part of me wanted to pull that thread, close the chapter and start a new story that had nothing to do with cancer.

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