我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事.I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.正如经常发生的那样，这个小故事在结尾处出现了转折。As so often happens, this little story has a twist in the tail.传奇中的一些小故事成为英雄通向不朽境界的最可靠的护照.The incidents of the legend become...

“小故事”的英语可以翻译为：conte，storiette ...