These stories became known as dime novels. Dime novels helped make heroes of people like Davy Crockett and Kit Carson.

这些故事后来被称为廉价小说。廉价小说帮助戴维·克罗克特和基特·卡森等人成为英雄。

People with educations, people who had gone to school, often look down on dime novels.

有文化的人，上过学的人，往往看不起廉价小说。

Well, you could at least, in some of the cities of that time, buy these dime novels.

好吧， 至少在当时的一些城市，你可以买到这些廉价小说。

Dime novels were very popular in the 19th and 20th century – we've been talking about the Wild West.

廉价小说在 19 世纪和 20 世纪非常流行——我们一直在谈论狂野的西部。

We're also going to talk about dime novels and pulp magazines.

我们还将讨论廉价小说和通俗杂志。

This dime novel was, like most novels, part of the series.

与大多数小说一样，这部廉价小说是系列小说的一部分。

A lot of dime novels and pulp magazines used what we might call " sensationalism" – that's a tough one to say.

许多廉价小说和通俗杂志都使用了我们所谓的“轰动效应”——这很难说。

One was a desire to return to earlier, simpler times. The American West of the dime novels was fast disappearing. The area was starting to develop.

其中一个就是人们想要回到以前的简单的时光里。美国西部的廉价小说正在快速消失。这片区域也开始开发。

One of the first dime novels that was written was back in 1860 by a woman named Anne Stevens.

1860 年，一位名叫安妮·史蒂文斯 (Anne Stevens) 的女士创作了第一部廉价小说。

Dime novels became less popular by the end of the 19 century.

到 19 世纪末，廉价小说变得不那么流行了。

People still bought these dime novels, however, and in fact, in the 1940s and 50s, they became popular again.

然而，人们仍然购买这些廉价小说， 事实上，在 20 世纪 40 年代和 50 年代，它们再次流行起来。

So, people had other ways of entertaining themselves, such as buying these dime novels and these pulp magazines.

所以， 人们有其他的娱乐方式，比如买这些廉价小说和这些通俗杂志。

People would go back and buy these old dime novels because they were cheap and they had these exciting stories.

人们会回去买这些旧的一毛钱小说，因为它们很便宜，而且有这些令人兴奋的故事。

Like other popular dime novels that followed or came after, the series by Anne Stevens had sensational stories about the " frontier."

与随后或之后的其他流行廉价小说一样，安妮·史蒂文斯 (Anne Stevens) 的系列小说讲述了关于“边疆” 的耸人听闻的故事。

When we talk about a dime novel, however, we're talking about a novel – a fictional book – that used to be sold for a dime.

然而， 当我们谈论一毛钱小说时，我们谈论的是一本小说——一本虚构的书——曾经以一毛钱的价格出售。

There was now movies and television, radio, of course – all of these things competed with pulp magazines and dime novels.

现在有了电影和电视，当然还有广播——所有这些东西都在与低俗杂志和廉价小说竞争。

The term " dime novel" is still used to describe books that are written very quickly, that are not of a very good quality, and that sell a lot of copies.

“dime novel” 这个词仍然用来形容写得很快，质量不是很好， 而且销量很大的书。

They're magazines but they often had stories of adventure or murder stories and so, they, like dime novels, were popular among people who didn't have a lot of money but who wanted some cheap entertainment.

它们是杂志， 但经常有冒险故事或谋杀故事，因此，它们就像廉价小说一样，在那些没有很多钱但想要一些廉价娱乐的人中很受欢迎。