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词汇 schlock
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Definition of schlock in English:

schlock

(US shlock)
nounʃlɒkʃlɑk
mass nounNorth American informal
  • Cheap or inferior goods or material; trash.

    〈北美,非正式〉廉价的劣质货,次品;废物,垃圾

    mass-produced schlock
    televisual schlock
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For connoisseurs of schlock, they're priceless.
    • So you can't really go in there and say, ‘Here, I'm going to make some real schlock.’
    • It's at the edge of schlock and kitsch, but it's a nice throwback to the times when people would practice their letters and made sure their handwriting was neat, legible, and beautiful.
    • Like many bands playing earnestly banal semi-derived emo schlock they've connected with an audience of disaffected youth who find comfort in their cranked up pop music and simplistic lyrics.
    • Yet even with all this going for it, the film only proves that well-done schlock is still schlock.
    • Existing at the intersection of simple chemistry genius and Ed Wood schlock, the kit involved two putty substances that one mixed to produce a gruesome, frighteningly real scar.
    • Instead of Bauhaus residences in the suburbs, we got ersatz-traditional schlock.
    • At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
    • Debuting in 1964, the series balanced wholesomely silly schlock with enough clever satire of traditional family shows like Father Knows Best to appeal to kids and adults alike.
    • This nonstop laugh riot is a truly neglected classic of cautionary showbiz schlock.
    • The convergence of the irreverent prince of potty humor and the cringe-worthy captain of schlock must be one of the signs of the impending Apocalypse.
    • The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a succession of schlock and gore museums.
    • It doesn't help when the episode is established in a tomb-raiding scene so derivative of '80s adventure schlock that I felt like I was in middle school.
    • The dull picture here befits the cheap production values of this schlock.
    • I sit in that eerie phosphorescent tubal glow and lounge becalmed, thinking about the microwave emissions being bombarded into outer space like a gazillion ambassadors of tacky schlock.
    • Everything on display here is grade-Z kung-fu schlock.
    • Producers called again, and this time they weren't in search of schlock.
    • Were teenagers in the '60s really impressed by this schlock?
    • And you have to admire the unrepentant schlock.
    • Trouble was, the only legal name for the mix was - and still is - ‘red table wine,’ a tag people might associate with schlock.

Derivatives

  • schlocky

  • adjectiveschlockier, schlockiest
    North American informal
    • This is the kind of thing that schlocky TV producers love.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But laid out on the floor of the tank room, being regularly doused with water to keep it from drying out, the squid looks less like an exciting scientific specimen and more like a gruesome puppet made for a schlocky horror film.
      • Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
      • I, personally, am distracted by schlocky music.
      • Some films are so unashamedly schlocky, it's almost as if they go right past ‘bad’ and come all the way round to ‘outstanding’ again.

Origin

Early 20th century: apparently from Yiddish shlak 'an apoplectic stroke', shlog 'wretch, untidy person, apoplectic stroke'.

Rhymes

ad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok

Definition of schlock in US English:

schlock

(US shlock)
nounʃlɑkSHläk
North American informal
  • Cheap or inferior goods or material; trash.

    〈北美,非正式〉廉价的劣质货,次品;废物,垃圾

    as modifier schlock journalism
    they peddle their schlock to willing tourists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet even with all this going for it, the film only proves that well-done schlock is still schlock.
    • Producers called again, and this time they weren't in search of schlock.
    • The convergence of the irreverent prince of potty humor and the cringe-worthy captain of schlock must be one of the signs of the impending Apocalypse.
    • At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
    • I sit in that eerie phosphorescent tubal glow and lounge becalmed, thinking about the microwave emissions being bombarded into outer space like a gazillion ambassadors of tacky schlock.
    • Everything on display here is grade-Z kung-fu schlock.
    • The dull picture here befits the cheap production values of this schlock.
    • For connoisseurs of schlock, they're priceless.
    • It doesn't help when the episode is established in a tomb-raiding scene so derivative of '80s adventure schlock that I felt like I was in middle school.
    • Trouble was, the only legal name for the mix was - and still is - ‘red table wine,’ a tag people might associate with schlock.
    • Like many bands playing earnestly banal semi-derived emo schlock they've connected with an audience of disaffected youth who find comfort in their cranked up pop music and simplistic lyrics.
    • Were teenagers in the '60s really impressed by this schlock?
    • And you have to admire the unrepentant schlock.
    • Instead of Bauhaus residences in the suburbs, we got ersatz-traditional schlock.
    • The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a succession of schlock and gore museums.
    • Debuting in 1964, the series balanced wholesomely silly schlock with enough clever satire of traditional family shows like Father Knows Best to appeal to kids and adults alike.
    • Existing at the intersection of simple chemistry genius and Ed Wood schlock, the kit involved two putty substances that one mixed to produce a gruesome, frighteningly real scar.
    • It's at the edge of schlock and kitsch, but it's a nice throwback to the times when people would practice their letters and made sure their handwriting was neat, legible, and beautiful.
    • This nonstop laugh riot is a truly neglected classic of cautionary showbiz schlock.
    • So you can't really go in there and say, ‘Here, I'm going to make some real schlock.’

Origin

Early 20th century: apparently from Yiddish shlak ‘an apoplectic stroke’, shlog ‘wretch, untidy person, apoplectic stroke’.

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