dime novel
基本解释
- (主题通常为刺激历险或浪漫爱情的)廉价小说。
英汉例句
- Don't squander your time in reading those dime novels.
不要把你的时间浪费在读那些胡编乱造的廉价小说上。 - The actual lives of the cowboys were tedious, but they were romanticized by dime novels and Hollywood movies.
牛仔的实际生活很艰苦,但被廉价小说和好莱坞的电影将之浪漫化了。 - In his jeans and big boots and wide Stetson, his fringed leather jacket and gun belt, he looked like something out of one of Nora's dime novels.
他看上去就像劳拉一便士小说里的人物--穿着牛仔服,套双大皮靴,戴着宽边史特桑帽子,加边的皮夹克,挎着枪套。 - The front cover of the novel has been torn off.
这本小说的封面已被撕掉。 - She read me a few extracts from her own new novel.
她把她自己的新小说念了几段给我听。
英英字典
- a cheap, popular novel, especially one that tells a romantic or exciting story