Young people in particular will stay with a story (or not) depending on their own ebb and flow of feeling around the action and characters.
孩子喜欢一个故事，是因为这些事情和人物引起了他们一连串的感情。
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When he was young, he would get up early each summer morning to beg his mother to take him to the beach to play and watch the ebb and flow of the tide.