dime novel
基本解释
- (主題通常爲刺激歷險或浪漫愛情的)廉價小說。
英汉例句
- Don't squander your time in reading those dime novels.
不要把你的時間浪費在讀那些衚編亂造的廉價小說上。 - The actual lives of the cowboys were tedious, but they were romanticized by dime novels and Hollywood movies.
牛仔的實際生活很艱苦,但被廉價小說和好萊隖的電影將之浪漫化了。 - 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.
他看上去就像勞拉一便士小說裡的人物--穿著牛仔服,套雙大皮靴,戴著寬邊史特桑帽子,加邊的皮夾尅,挎著槍套。 - The front cover of the novel has been torn off.
這本小說的封麪已被撕掉。 - She read me a few extracts from her own new novel.
她把她自己的新小說唸了幾段給我聽。
英英字典
- a cheap, popular novel, especially one that tells a romantic or exciting story