Have you ever been to a family to tell a short story?
你有去别的家庭里讲故事吗？
Let me tell you a short story.
让我告诉你一个小故事吧。
Let me digress for a moment and tell you a short story.
请允许我暂时离开话题一会儿，我给你讲个小故事。
How to tell a story: it is a short question which demands a long answer.
如何讲故事：虽然是个很简短的问题，但却需要长篇大论才能说清楚。
To make a long story short, I had to tell my client I didn't know what I was doing wrong.
长痛不如短痛，我只得告诉我的客户我也不知道什么地方出了问题。
After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I leave it to you as to how well I succeeded.
总之，我试图在这篇短短的文字中讲述几万亿年的人类历史。我是否成功地做到了这一点将留给你们去判断。
Why read the life story of a famous man, when a short television program can tell you all that you want to know?
为什么读的生活故事，一个著名的人，当一个短期的电视节目可以告诉你所有你想知道吗？
Sometimes they have made short films. Sometimes the plays are a series of sketches and songs. Sometimes the plays tell one story.
有时他们会制作短片，有时会表演一系列的短剧和歌曲，有时会告诉一个故事。
Atter the lecture, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one."
演讲之后，作家非常感谢这位口译的出色工作，并说：“请告诉我，你是如何把我那么长的一个故事译成如此简短的日语的。”
Atter the lecture, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one."
演讲之后，作家非常感谢这位口译的出色工作，并说：“请告诉我，你是如何把我那么长的一个故事译成如此简短的日语的。”
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