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If you describe a book or movie as a potboiler, you mean that it has been created in order to earn money quickly and is of poor quality. 赚钱快质量差之物
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All he wants to do is write a potboiler and get rich.
Rather than scraping down the old potboilers he bought in junk shops, he simply cleaned them with alcohol and reprimed them with a layer of rabbit-skin glue.
Across the decades the capital has inspired potboilers and sizzling romances, but it was not until the 1980s, when London was booming again, that the city itself returned to centre stage.