potboiler
- n. 粗制滥造的文艺作品;粗制滥造作品的人
词态变化
中文词源
pot,罐子,boil,煮。即罐子里面煮肉,引申词义不管好肉还是烂肉,只要是肉就行,用来比喻那些粗制滥造的电影或小说。
英文词源
- potboiler (n.)
- also pot-boiler, 1864 in the figurative literary sense, from pot (n.1) + agent noun from boil (v.). The notion is of something one writes solely to put food on the table.
双语例句
- 1. This is just another legal potboiler.
- 这就是另一本法律题材的烂作。
来自辞典例句