故事情节几乎叫人不明所以。

The plot is almost impossible to follow.

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故事情节逐渐展开，小女孩都入迷地听着。

The girls listened in fascination as the story unfolded.

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故事情节再一次变化。

The story has taken another twist.

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For example, he begins by borrowing the Russian formalist distinction in trying to explain what fiction is between plot and story.

举个例子，他开篇在解释那种文体介于情节和故事之间时,借用了俄国结构主义的特点。

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Then there came to be questions about whether the scenes, the stories in the book, actually did happen to him.

于是问题出现了，书里的那些情节和故事是否真正在他身上发生过。

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But, you know, the formalists' own basic distinctions are dualistic, aren't they: the distinction between poetic and practical language, the distinction between plot and story, the distinction between rhythm and meter?

但是，形式主义所认为的区别却是双重标准的，诗歌语言和实用语言的区别，情节和故事的区别，节奏和韵律的区别？

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