时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Potboiler: 粗制滥造的作品


对作家而言,最痛苦的事莫过于读者认为他的文章是potboiler(为混饭吃而粗制滥造的文学作品),更通俗一点,“某本小说被认为写得很‘烂’”。文章“烂”怎么会和boiler(锅炉)、pot(壶)扯上关系呢? 其实,就语言习惯而言,理解这个词组并不难。先从汉语角度来考虑,我们会听到:“为了糊口,他在学术创作之余,还编写取悦市场的‘肥皂剧本’。”句中,“取悦市场的肥皂剧本”——sitcom plays that intends to tailor the marker,就可以用pot-boiler来代替。“糊口、谋生”既然离不开锅、碗、瓢、盆,以此为目的而创作的小说和剧本,用“炊具组合”来表达真是再形象不过了。 19世纪60年代,potboiler进入英语词汇,用以形容a work of literature as money-makers rather than as works 1 of art(以盈利为目的,缺乏艺术价值的作品)。 另外,potboiler的动词形式是to boil the pot(谋生,粗制滥造文章)。例如:He had to boil the pot when he was a teenager. (他十来岁就得挣钱糊口。)

n.作品,著作;工厂,活动部件,机件
  • We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
标签: 作品
学英语单词
-trixes
a man of zeal
aerial data
algorithmic test case generation
alpha/beta pruning
angelicin
anti-flood
assbutts
aura
axes of principal strain
Bistrica
blood heart (or heart)
blow out
bonk journalism
break one's neck
buffalo
cataphrenia
chamorros
charging belt
church community
clarabelle
clipping precision
coefficient of capacitance
colloid mill
command execution unit
complex functional mosaic
compress-air-operated
control instruments
cranopygia okunii
critical dissolved oxygen concentration
crypto-sexual
cryptomagmatic mineral deposit
cycle stand
dechroming
decryptions
dichloramine
dna-damage
epidemic type
Euclidean groups
family adelgidaes
fast food restaurant
femtosecond region
fgar
Fluterschen
friction burn
friendship bracelet
fuel experience
gagnaire
give someone a rough time
glossoplasty
governor lever ratio
H. C. T.
hand specimen
Harlösa
hearth freeze-up
high-definition television (hdtv)
Hitenso
homogeneity of acts
hydrolipidic
indicatrix ellipse
invertedbrush contact
K-3920
lead-calcium alloy battery
ligamenta cricotracheale
linear shrinkage
low acid foods
message weight
microvan
minacious
moving-conductor speaker
naking down
Neckar River
nocardamine
non-medullated nerve
OK Google
Ossora, Bukhta
partite
person-organization fit
picture replenishment
polyglottology
pressed pipe
radices molles ganglii ciliaris
redmonds
registration of division land and building
retrocerebral
schwarznegger
seabottom
simple triple meter
skin drying mold
so hot
statistic phenomena
statistology
stockholders meeting
subpectoral
syncipital
Tanakae
wall of hole
waste range
woodroffe
yin shan yai hua chung wu tzu t'u
zigzag form