Many episodes also involve temporal loops , character dramas , natural disasters , and other plotlines without alien encounters .

而除了与外星人遭遇之外，许多剧集中还包含了时空循环、物戏、然灾害以及其它的一些主线情节。

They did research at primary schools in Dalian , to find out if children liked their plotlines and characters .

他们首先在大连各个小学做调研，看看孩子们是否喜欢他们的故事情节和人物设置。

These plotlines are generally based on real science .

这些情节大体上基于真实的科学原理。

It \'s the way we make sense of the world : I \'m not sure any of us could survive without giving our lives some compelling plotlines .

这就是我们认知世界的方式：若不给自己的生命添加一些无法抗拒的故事情节，我不太确定是否还有人能继续活下去。我就绝对不行。

If those plotlines sound familiar to Americans , they should ; never have the engines of middle-class drama in China and America had so much in common .

如果这些主要情节在美国人听来感到很熟悉的话，事实也的确如此。中美两国的中产阶级戏剧的设计从未有过如此多的共同点。