1.〔文〕粗制滥造的文学艺术作品
2.为赚稿费而粗制作品的作家
1.a book, movie, etc. that was created only to make money
1.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。
2.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。
3.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。
4.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。