romantic fiction

基本解释

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.
大多数的女性读者早已厌倦了写法老套的言情小说，她们不再喜欢言情小说的圆满结局，而更情愿看一本恐怖或者犯罪小说。
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.
在美国，言情小说年度零售额达到10亿美元；奎利安说禾林出版社——这个品牌几乎是言情小说的代名词——的销售速度据说是每秒钟超过4本书。
In romantic fiction, the hero and heroine often fall in love at first sight.
爱情小说中，男女主人公常常是一见钟情。

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.
她总是摆出一些姿势：,第一次是在爱情小说中疲倦已极的女主角,这一次则是游戏，完美的网球游戏。
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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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