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short story

短篇小说,短篇故事,短篇报道,小故事

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.

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Examples

  • The latter will be a feature film called Dolly and is based on a short story written by Elizabeth Bear.

  • These books are accompanied by dazzling short story collections, heartbreaking debuts and more.

  • As the implanted microelectrodes silently recorded the brain cells’ electrical activity, the team asked the participants to listen to a short story.

  • There are many elements to consider when reading a short story, but perhaps the most important one is what kind of ending the author chooses.

  • She published a few short stories and poems and was an editorial assistant for Oxford University Press in Manhattan before her marriage, in 1948, to Jonathan Bishop, who became a literary scholar.

  • The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’

  • In its attempt to discredit the story, the JPO inadvertently confirmed that fact.

  • Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

  • Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.

  • Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.