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？

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

Write a short story.

写一个短篇故事。

Recently, I read a short story is about herat.

最近我读了一个短的故事是有关心地善良的。

This is a short story about a bird in a birdcage .

这个短小的故事是关于一只被关在鸟笼子里的小鸟的。

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。

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。

I also attempted a short story which was a ghastly failure.

我又尝试过写一个短篇故事，却又彻底失败。

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。

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？

The film, based on a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, won an Oscar for visual effects.

这部根据C·克拉克的短篇故事改变的电影最终荣膺了奥斯卡最佳视觉效果奖。

It is written in the present tense and tells the entire screenplay as if it were a short story.

文案一般使用现在时撰写，并将剧本的主要情节改写为一个短篇故事。

In a short story, two teenagers stumble on a police torture chamber, growing fascinated, then bored.

在他的一个短篇里，两个少年意外撞见警察的酷刑室，为它着迷，接着失去兴趣。

The Snows of Kilimanjaro will then exist only as a memory - and the title of a short story by Ernest Hemingway.

乞力马扎罗山之雪到那时将成为人们永远的记忆——以及欧内斯特·海明威(Ernest Hemingway)一篇短篇小说的名字。

Some people see life in terms of a photograph or a song or a short story; Lemelson sees it in terms of a patent.

有人将生活看成一幅照片、一首歌或者一部短篇小说。在莱梅尔逊眼里，生活就是一项专利接着另一项专利。

Her new book is named after a short story by Susan Gaspell, published in 1917, about a sensational murder trial.

她新书的名字来自苏珊·加斯贝尔在1917年的一篇同名短篇小说，那个小说讲的是一起轰动的谋杀案审判。

Ask and answer questions about each one. Then write a short story about your stay at one of the hotels in Inner Mongolia.

就每本小册子的内容提问并回答问题。然后根据你在内蒙古时住的一家宾馆的情况写一短文。

He wrote a short story that perhaps best explains the terrible conditions gold seekers faced. It is called "the White Silence."

他写了一部短篇小说，这部短篇小说也许最好地阐述了淘金者所面临的可怕环境，这部短篇小说是《The White Silence》(《寂静的白色》)。

In 2007, when she was still expected to survive, I wrote a short story about her illness and deliberately gave it a happy ending.

2007年，当时医生认为她可以活下来。我写了一篇短篇小说，下意识地写了一个快乐的结局。