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单词 slush pile
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Definition of slush pile in English:

slush pile

noun
informal
  • A stack of unsolicited manuscripts that have been sent to a publishing company for consideration.

    〈非正式〉废稿堆(出版社收到的成堆的自由来稿)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His novel was plucked from the obscurity of the slush pile by the wife of his agent Luigi Bonomi.
    • The slush pile consumes a lot of resources inside a small publishing company.
    • But celebrity writers such as Madonna don't do slush piles.
    • Their material ended up in the slush pile.
    • I feel very guilty about it, because I'm a fiction writer and I've been sending to slush piles for years.
    • "Kathleen came in through the slush pile," he reveals.
    • These days, you have to be very good indeed, or very lucky, to be pulled out of the mountainous slush piles on the desks of children's publishers.
    • One point to note is that every writer, and every novel, is at some point in someone's slush pile.
    • The book is then part of the editor's slush pile.
    • The term ' slush pile ' gives a clear flavour of the contempt in which unsolicited submissions are held.
    • My assistant goes through the slush pile.
    • His job is to work through the slush pile of unpublishable books, sending out rejection letters to disappointed would-be authors.
    • Their writing seems like random samplings from the slush pile at a third-rate college newspaper.
    • The authors I've found in the slush pile have all - without exception - had fantastic letters.
    • But it is not compulsory to submit anything to a slush pile.
    • These unsolicited submissions are known in the book trade, throughout the English-speaking world, as the slush pile.
    • We've got a couple more books in the works that are from the slush pile.
    • She began, as we all do, in someone's slush pile.
    • I particularly recommend her piece on the slush pile.
    • I also read manuscripts from the "slush pile" that came in from hopeful amateur writers everywhere.

Definition of slush pile in US English:

slush pile

noun
informal
  • A stack of unsolicited manuscripts that have been sent to a publishing company for consideration.

    〈非正式〉废稿堆(出版社收到的成堆的自由来稿)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My assistant goes through the slush pile.
    • The authors I've found in the slush pile have all - without exception - had fantastic letters.
    • I feel very guilty about it, because I'm a fiction writer and I've been sending to slush piles for years.
    • One point to note is that every writer, and every novel, is at some point in someone's slush pile.
    • His novel was plucked from the obscurity of the slush pile by the wife of his agent Luigi Bonomi.
    • I particularly recommend her piece on the slush pile.
    • His job is to work through the slush pile of unpublishable books, sending out rejection letters to disappointed would-be authors.
    • I also read manuscripts from the "slush pile" that came in from hopeful amateur writers everywhere.
    • Their material ended up in the slush pile.
    • But celebrity writers such as Madonna don't do slush piles.
    • These unsolicited submissions are known in the book trade, throughout the English-speaking world, as the slush pile.
    • These days, you have to be very good indeed, or very lucky, to be pulled out of the mountainous slush piles on the desks of children's publishers.
    • Their writing seems like random samplings from the slush pile at a third-rate college newspaper.
    • We've got a couple more books in the works that are from the slush pile.
    • The term ' slush pile ' gives a clear flavour of the contempt in which unsolicited submissions are held.
    • "Kathleen came in through the slush pile," he reveals.
    • The book is then part of the editor's slush pile.
    • But it is not compulsory to submit anything to a slush pile.
    • She began, as we all do, in someone's slush pile.
    • The slush pile consumes a lot of resources inside a small publishing company.
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