就如人工甜味剂可以比糖还甜，虚构的事情可能比真实事件更为感人。

Just as artificial sweeteners can be sweeter than sugar, unreal events can be more moving than real ones.There are three reasons for this.

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这是虚构的，因为每一集发生的事情都是虚构的。

It's fiction, as what happens in every episode is made up.

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但是这里，事情要更耐人寻味——那就是即使我们清楚地意识到某事是虚构的，我们心里还是有个小小的念想，认为它是真的。

But the idea here is more interesting than that-it is that even once we consciously know something is fictional, there is a part of us that believes it's real.

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Ultimately, we reach the conclusion that if we're to think of literature, we're to think of something that is made up: not something that is based on something but something that is made up.

最终，我们得到结论，如果我们要想到文学，我们就得想到虚构的一些事情,不是基于其它事情上的事情，而是虚构的一些事情。

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