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What’s a complication?

The Complication of the introduction is not a complication in the everyday sense of the word; it is the Complication to the story. It describes an alteration to a stable situation, rather than a problem per se, although sometimes the alteration is a problem. Exhibit 12 shows several possible kinds of complications.

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什么是复杂情况？

引言中的复杂情况并不是日常意义上的“复杂”，而是故事的复杂情况。它描述的是对稳定情境的某种改变，而非严格意义上的“问题”，尽管有时这种改变可能是一个问题。附件 12 展示了几种可能的复杂情况类型。

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Exhibit 12 The Complication states an alteration to the Situation

SITUATION	COMPLICATION	QUESTION
Recognized stable Situation	Something went wrong	What do we do?
	Something could go wrong	How can we prevent it?
	Something changed	What should we do?
	Something could change	How should we react?
	Here’s what you might expect to find in it	Do we find it?
	Here’s someone with a different point of view	Who is right?
	In this situation we have three alternatives	Which one should we take?

To illustrate further, Exhibit 13 shows some introductions pulled at random from popular publications, along with an outline of their structures.

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附件 12 复杂情况指出了对情境的改变

情境	复杂情况	问题
认可的稳定情境	出现了问题	我们该怎么做？
	可能会出现问题	我们如何预防它？
	发生了变化	我们该怎么做？
	可能会发生变化	我们该如何反应？
	这是你可能期望找到的内容	我们找到了吗？
	这里有一个不同的观点	谁是正确的？
	在这种情境下我们有三个选择	我们该选择哪一个？

为了进一步说明，附件 13 展示了一些从流行出版物中随机抽取的引言，并附有它们的结构概述。