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。
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a sham fight
acid-proof floor
adloff
alkalimetric method
alloparenting
arakiite
aurantioglicocladin
barely-there
bonneville
busan (pusan)
chain of lozenge
cinevideodensitometry
cixius meifengensis
columbiformess
condition sale
conservations of momentum
conveyer and brush mechanism
corn holes
diadduct
division archaebacterias
Early Withdrawal
engrande toilette
equitable defence
ex importation dock price
exburse
F-59
ferrogum
freon refrigeration and brine system
gate turn off
genus Leontodon
gobelt cell
gudenrath
Hamilton circuit
hand-power steering gear
heat pipe heat recovery unit
hineses
hospital staff
hyalopsora polypodii
incompletely annealed
intradermal hemorrhage
itemized total
items in stock
jump sack
just what the doctor ordered
keep pace (with)
layk
losing sight of
mean position
metamfetamine
misleadingness
Modulo.
mould cure
music-listening
mycosis nasalis
newstrade
nonexpondable
palaeoecologies
paraptosis
Parowa
pars funicularis (ductus deferentis)
Pessoux
preburned
prism twin law
proselytesses
pushing tractor
rail damage
rake out
Randians
real number field
receding shock wave
reception sampling plan
reconnaissance shooting
remoteindicating
respiratory pathophysiology
retained item
richteri
rodilone
salicyl salicylic acid,diplosal
satellite detection
seat track
seite
self-adjustments
separation of bone
shutdown at sliding parameters
simple perforation plate
soybean protein isolate
spectrum of biosystem
sprayer attachment
St-Honoré
stringency of the money market
subility
subornings
summation of contraction
the holy bible
tinctable
track stand
two bits
unprofessionalizes
vigourousness
Wikstroemia pampaninii
within living memory
yep