It has brought English into homes and pushed out traditional story-telling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.

它把英语带进了家庭，挤掉了传统的家庭讲故事的时间，加速了本土语言的消亡。

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And in my heart I should have been startled if they had behaved otherwise, for all the time I was telling it I was conscious in my soul that it was a stupid story!

然而在我心里却觉得：如果当时他们真的大笑的话，我倒是会感到惊讶的。这是因为我发现自己讲的时候在潜意识里就一直觉得：这个故事太蠢了！

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Artistic unity is staying on the story (like a science fiction novel) topic or story line, telling only one story at a time, staying on the style of a home in interior design.

艺术统一就是沿着故事(如科幻小说)主题或故事主线，一次只讲一个故事，在室内设计中，一所房子保持一种风格。

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What it does in the course of telling a seminal story of our time is what contemporary films so rarely do, serve as brilliant provocation.

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There, at least, she will be in control of her story, telling it for the first time in a friendly forum--a room free of opposition lawyers, pesky reporters or late-night comedians.

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It is less concerned with over-the-top thrills than in establishing time and place while telling a somewhat simple story of self-discovery.

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