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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学英语单词
aboriginal inhabited area
admission index
allobarbital
annuities on human life
anorectitis
anti-perfectionism
assignment of marketing right
astatine(element)
avonite
ayana
base of gas hydrate stability zone (bghsz)
body wastes
bombing runs
boot files
butterfly network
cargo characteristics
carry one's pigs to market
cazern
chemical nature
Chenini de Gabès
Clayton motion
colo(u)r index
confidential data
costocervical
coysell
current integrator
datacenters
dealing day
desaturated color
double dish
Dragesti
fenester
field ion transmission microscope
format effector
free paraffin chains
freeze sinking
genus crambes
goaded
halftruth
hand-lens magnifying glass
healing factor
hinda
hot-wired
image flicker
kates
leak(age) test
leakage check
local market monopoly
low geometry
mcguane
mesorhaga stylata
Morchella crassipes
mouse tracking
my treat
nacaphite
nomologically
non-essential document
non-freezing oil
normal threshold of feeling
nosce teipsum
not so as
optical fiber optoelectronic coupler
output instruction
oxy-
palaeoenvironmental
palmerson
parallel printing
pass partition
peneite
period-mean density relation
phonemic awareness
pictorialist
Pool Factor
population-control
porphyrine
quasi-stationary current
rebound pendulum machine
reciprocal sonde
remove flaw
rescue point
round/snipe nose plier
schedule of dynamic status of fixed assets
selemiya (salamiyah)
Senecio pteridophyllus
Shieldaig
shun
SIGARCH
single wattmeter method
single-precision
slobberbone
St. Clair's disease
subject identifier
swallowling
syllidian
tibiale externum
time (cross) section
type of name
universal tool miller
vegetable pole
well-wrought
windstar