In place of the scholarly tome that many people expected of him, Mr White has produced a polemic, and not a very good one at that. As the woman said, we are not amused.
怀特先生出版了一本并非人们所期待的博学的大部头，而是一本有争议的不是太好的小作品。正如这位妇女所说，我们对这很冷淡。
Don't name the place tome.
别跟我提起那个地方。
A commercial book, not a scholarly tome.
一本以赚钱为目的而不是学术性的书籍
