potboiler

This is just another legal potboiler.

这就是另一本法律题材的烂作。

the author of a good novel wouldn't complain that readers were unfair for preferring a potboiler with a racy cover.

作家不会仅仅因为读者喜欢封面恶俗、粗制滥造的作品，而抱怨他的优秀作品受到读者不公正的对待。

in literary circles this is known as created a potboiler, that is, something to make a little bit of money before the real prize is issued.

在文学界这个被称作盈利文学，也就是一些在真正的大作出版之前用于赚一点小钱的出版物。

Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's bestselling paperbacks.

她最近的急就章是一本去年出的畅销的平装书。

bob woodward's latest fly-on-the-wall white house potboiler, "obama's wars" , is among other things an essay in the loneliness of command.

鲍勃•伍德沃最新的白宫纪实文学——“奥巴马的战争”，除了粗制滥造之外，还是一篇关于奥巴马无人可用的文章。

reportage is not a "historiette" , so "the big fission of jinsha river" is just a potboiler.

报告文学不是“史话”，《金沙江大裂变》则是错误百出的大杂烩。