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You can refer to a film or novel that is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people. (以旧时生活为背景的)艳情作品
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If this still seems like nothing more than a bodiceripper with a twist, it is balanced by Bella's near-epic moping at the vicissitudes of love, which supplants for large tracts of the movie the place of a conventional plot.