romantic fiction

基本解釋

Most women are bored with, and cynical about, the well-trodden path of romantic fiction. They do not like happy endings and would rather read a thriller or crime novel.
大多數(shù)的女性讀者早已厭倦了寫法老套的言情小說(shuō)，她們不再喜歡言情小說(shuō)的圓滿結(jié)局，而更情愿看一本恐怖或者犯罪小說(shuō)。
Romantic fiction accounts for more than $1 billion annually in U.S. sales; Quilliam says Harlequin — the brand name synonymous with romance novels — reportedly sells more than four books each second.
在美國(guó)，言情小說(shuō)年度零售額達(dá)到10億美元；奎利安說(shuō)禾林出版社——這個(gè)品牌幾乎是言情小說(shuō)的代名詞——的銷售速度據(jù)說(shuō)是每秒鐘超過(guò)4本書。
In romantic fiction, the hero and heroine often fall in love at first sight.
愛情小說(shuō)中，男女主人公常常是一見鐘情。

She is acting out a form: in the first case the form of romantic fiction, the heroine who swoons back in this scene the form of the game, the perfect form of tennis.
她總是擺出一些姿勢(shì)：,第一次是在愛情小說(shuō)中疲倦已極的女主角,這一次則是游戲，完美的網(wǎng)球游戲。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國(guó)小說(shuō)課程節(jié)選

Conceivably, this trite exercise in romantic fiction is intended to draw more readers into the absorbing world of Josiah Wedgwood.
ECONOMIST: Feat of clay
An unsurpassable association copy of the best known fiction of the Romantic era, perhaps the most evocative presentation copy conceivable in all nineteenth-century literature.
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