It's a huge book which is all about this short story by Balzac, "Sarrasine," that he begins this essay by quoting.

这本大部头的书都是在讲巴尔扎克的短篇小说《沙拉辛》的，在文章开头他引用道。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'd like to close with a short story of recent interaction that I had with a video over the internet.

我想用一个小故事来结束,是最近我关于网络视频的互动作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Hawthorne wrote a short story you should read sometime, as a balance to all of this optimism of this period, irresistible as that optimism was.

霍桑写了篇短文,有机会你应当读读看,他给那个狂热乐观主义时代打了一针清醒剂,因为那是种不容抗拒的乐观

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So, part of the whole process is the elimination of these these municipal privileges and replacing municipal officials, to make a long story short, with people that they have appointed.

他们采取的一个办法,就是取消那些地方政府的特权,更换本土官员,简而言之,就是以近臣取而代之

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But long story short, if I want to use a function called sleep, -- the reason I, the programmer, knew to use that library -- -- that header at the top -- because it told me to in this little synopsis.

但长话短说，如果我想要用一个叫做sleep的功能，我作为程序员知道使用那个函数库-,上面的标题-,因为在这个小的大纲中它告诉我。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选