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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Achtheinus
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alumobritholite
Apron Conveyors
back crossing
bandwidth
ceratotrichium (pl. -chia)
cgrp (calcitonin gene-related peptide)
charge air cooling
chiefty
cigar holder
clumpiness
Coal Industry National Consultative Council
community succession
cormophyte plant
costin
crockpots
cutaway section
cytolytic reaction
deborating
departmental system
differential difference equation
distillation apparatus of petroleum products
ductile-brittle deformation
dyskinetic syndrome
enameled
energy efficiency of primary production
Euro currency deposit
factitous hyperthyrodidsm
failure density function
false detection
flask clamp
following rest
formosan macaque
fresh 1
fuzzen
glass wall tile
gnomishness
grammarianism
hypermodified
ifang
image rotation prism
initial update program
isomerohydrolase
Kołczygłowy
large Bologna sausage
lathe center grinder
leave loose of something
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low-e
lower-shaft
m-p
magnetic dumping
master disc
medianly zygomorphic
memorializers
minerist
minorship
moderstone (motherstone)
momentarinesses
mucilaginous disease
mud-therapy
multiple exostosis
nitrogen preservation
norwegian wood
over-slope
Pacific blackberry
phone monkey
pikeheads
policework
pop valve
procreations
quartz grit
ranger vest
reap the benefits of
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relative radiometer
ring-rolling
road-traffic
scholle
seamless steel pipe pile
sensory logic channel
service frequency
shift into gear
signal mixture
single-phase industrial frequency AC electric locomotive
skin friction loss
small data processing
spri
stacking density
stay down
straight line approximation
strategetics
structured data
subject-area
Thomas Hill Res.
toleware
transsip
trapezium-shaped
unhospital
wheeltappers
wiper handle