The short story is a difficult art form to master.

短篇小说是一种很难掌握的艺术形式。

I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.

我起先打算写一篇短篇小说，但很快就写成了长篇小说。

Lilly read a very short story.

萝莉念了一个很短的故事。

I started out to write a short story.

我起先打算写一篇短片小说。

I'm phoning about a short story competition.

我打电话是想问一个短篇小说比赛的事。

Tape Measure Murder is a short story by Agatha Christie.

《卷尺谋杀》是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的短篇小说。

It's a short story competition—so how many words is that?

这是一个短篇小说比赛——所以那篇有多少个单词？

They included "The Round House", by Louise Erdrich, "Salvage the Bones", by Jesmyn Ward and the short story "Corrie" by Alice Munro.

其中包括路易斯·厄德里奇的《圆屋》、杰斯米·沃德的《抢救骨头》和爱丽丝·门罗的短篇小说《科里》。

In a short story from "Toy Story", Rex's green tyrannosaurus really seemed to jump out of the screen, and the audience was impressed.

在一段来自《玩具总动员》的短篇中，雷克斯那只绿色的暴龙看起来真的要从屏幕里跳出来，使观众大为赞叹。

Specially, science fiction is a sub-class of prose fiction, for nearly every piece of science fiction is either a short story or a novel.

特别是，科幻小说是散文小说的一个子类，因为几乎每一部科幻小说都是短篇小说或长篇小说。

Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a short story.

严格说来，这部小说不能算长篇，而是短篇。

Especially, science fiction is a sub-class of prose fiction, for nearly every piece of science fiction is either a short story or a novel.

特别是，科幻小说是散文小说的一个子类，因为几乎每一部科幻小说都是短篇或长篇小说。

This incident was dramatised in a famous short story, "Sakai Jiken".

这件事被改编成著名的短篇小说《酒井法子》。

Nick Manter asked Cath for permission to publish the short story that they wrote together.

尼克·曼特请求凯斯允许他发表他们共同创作的短篇小说。

Let me tell you a short story.

让我告诉你一个小故事吧。

Completing the first draft of a short story.

完成小说的第一篇草稿。

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。

No one fainted the first time I read the short story, 'Guts'.

我第一次读《肠子》这个短篇故事的时候没人晕倒。

Please consider sharing this short story with loved ones.

请将此短文分享给你所爱的人。

You sit passively and read a novel, or a poem, or a short story.

又或者，你乖乖地坐着阅读一篇小说、诗歌或短篇小说。

You might like to write an essay, a poem, or a short story even.

你也许会写一篇散文，一首诗，甚至是一个短篇故事。

JH: I never know when a solid short story is going to come together.

海：我从不知道什么时候能写完一个故事。

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes.

当天夜里，我写了自己第一篇短篇小说，花了我半个小时。

Don't tell me about these complicated sentences from Balzac's short story.

不要给我讲巴尔扎克短篇小说里的这些复杂的句子。

Am I a successful writer if I finish a short story? A novel? Getpublished?

如果我写了个短篇，那我就是成功的作家？

That's why I wrote 'Guts'. Just a three-act short story based on true-life anecdotes.

这就是为什么我写了《肠子》，一部真人真事改编的三幕短篇故事。