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storiette n.小故事。

storiology

He found that the newspaper storiette should never be tragic , should never end unhappily , and should never contain beauty of language , subtlety of thought , nor real delicacy of sentiment . sentiment it must contain , plenty of it , pure and noble , of the sort that in his own early youth had brought his applause from “ nigger heaven “ - the “ for - god - my - country - and - the - czar “ and “ i - may - be - poor - but - i - am - honest “ brand of sentiment 他發現報紙小故事不能是悲劇,必須有大團圓結局語言不必美,思想不必細致,感情也不必微妙,但一定要有感情,而且要豐富,要純潔高貴,要是他少年時在劇院廉價座位上為之大喝其彩的那種感情那種“為了上帝祖國和國王”的感情, “窮歸窮,要窮得志氣”的感情。

He signed the new contract , inserting “ the smoke of joy “ in the blank space , and mailed it back to the publishers along with the twenty storiettes he had written in the days before he discovered the formula for the newspaper storiette 他簽署了新的合同,在空白處填上了歡的輕煙,寄給了出版人,又把他早在發現寫作報紙小小說的公式之前寫的二十篇小小說一起寄了去。

Before he got very far along in the art of the storiette , martin worked out half a dozen stock forms , which he always consulted when constructing storiettes 研究小故事寫作技巧后不久,馬丁搞出了華打固定的模式,常常用來作編寫參考。這些模式像巧妙的數學表格,可以從上面下面。

As it is , every storiette , every word of every storiette , was a violation of myself , of my self - respect , of my respect for beauty 現在的情況是,每一個小故事,小故事里的每一個詞語都傷害著我,傷害著我的自尊和我對美的尊重。

For several weeks he had been worried by a strange silence on the part of the newspaper storiette syndicate 很奇怪,報紙小故事供應社一連幾個星期默不作聲,令他十分煩惱。

Then there was the newspaper storiette 然后是報紙上的小小說。