- (especially British English) (North American English usually movie theater, theater, movie house)[countable]
a building in which films are shown 电影院 
the local cinema 当地的电影院 - in a cinema
The film has just opened in cinemas across the UK. 这部电影刚刚在全英国的电影院上映。 We were sitting in the cinema, waiting for the film to begin. 我们坐在电影院，等待电影开始。 - at a cinema
a screening at a cinema in Leicester Square in London 伦敦莱斯特广场电影院的放映
Extra ExamplesTopics Film and theatrea1, Buildingsa1The cinema was packed every night for ‘Shrek’. 电影院里每天晚上挤满了看《史莱克》的人。 The cinema was packed, and we ended up sitting in the second row. 电影院挤满了人，我们最后只能坐在了第二排。 a new multiplex cinema on the edge of town 城边上的一个多厅电影院
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- packed
- multiplex
- go to
- be on at
- screen
- audience
- advertising
- …
- the cinema[singular] (British English)(North American English the movies)
when you go to the cinema or to the movies, you go to a cinema to see a film （去电影院）看电影 I used to go to the cinema every week. 我过去每周都去看电影。 How often do you go to the cinema? 你多长时间去看一次电影？ - at the cinema
I haven't seen a film at the cinema for nearly 2 years. 我已经将近2年没在电影院看过电影了。 Is there anything good on at the cinema at the moment? 目前电影院有什么好看的电影吗？ - in the cinema
I hated it when I saw it in the cinema. 我在电影院看到的时候很讨厌。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- packed
- multiplex
- go to
- be on at
- screen
- audience
- advertising
- …
- [uncountable, singular] (especially British English) (North American English usually the movies)
films as an art or an industry 电影艺术；电影制片业 one of the great successes of British cinema 英国电影艺术的巨大成就之一 the most influential film in the history of cinema 电影史上最有影响力的电影 He was honoured for his outstanding contribution to cinema. 他因对电影的杰出贡献而受到表彰。 contemporary/world cinema 当代/世界电影 mainstream/independent/arthouse/avant-garde cinema 主流/独立/艺术/前卫电影 She started making films in the last years of silent cinema. 无声电影时代末期她开始制作电影。
Collocations Cinema/the moviesCinema/the movies 电影 Watching 观看 - go to/take somebody to (see) a film
- go to/sit in (British English) the cinema/(North American English) the (movie) theater
去／在看电影 - rent a film/DVD
- download/stream a film
- burn/copy/rip a DVD
刻录／复制／转压一张 DVD 碟片 - see/watch a film/DVD/preview/trailer
Showing 放映；播放 - show/screen a film
- promote/distribute/review a film
- (British English) be on at the cinema
在电影院上映 - be released on/come out on/be out on DVD
发行 DVD - captivate/delight/grip/thrill the audience
使观众着迷／高兴／感兴趣／激动 - do well/badly at the box office
票房好／不好 - get a lot of/live up to the hype
受到大肆炒作；与天花乱坠的广告宣传相符
Film-making 电影制作 - write/co-write a film/script/screenplay
- direct/produce/make/shoot/edit a film/sequel
- make a romantic comedy/a thriller/an action movie
拍摄一部浪漫喜剧／惊悚片／动作片 - do/work on a sequel/remake
拍摄续集；重拍 - film/shoot the opening scene/an action sequence/footage (of something)
拍摄（…的）开场戏／一套动作／连续镜头 - compose/create/do/write the soundtrack
制作电影声带 - cut/edit (out) a scene/sequence
剪辑掉一个镜头／一组镜头
Acting 表演 - have/get/do an audition
试演 - get/have/play a leading/starring/supporting role
得以饰演／饰演主角／配角 - play a character/James Bond/the bad guy
饰演一个人物／詹姆斯 · 邦德／反面角色 - act in/appear in/star in a film/remake
- do/perform/attempt a stunt
做／尝试特技表演 - work in/make it big in Hollywood
在好莱坞工作／取得成功 - forge/carve/make/pursue a career in Hollywood
在好莱坞闯出／追求一番事业
Describing films 描述电影 - the camera pulls back/pans over something/zooms in (on something)
- the camera focuses on something/lingers on something
- shoot somebody/show somebody in extreme close-up
用特写镜头拍摄／表现某人 - use odd/unusual camera angles
采用奇特的／不同寻常的摄影机角度 - be filmed/shot on location/in a studio
在外景地／摄影棚拍摄 - be set/take place in London/in the ’60s
以伦敦／60 年代为背景 - have a happy ending/plot twist
有美满的结局／出人意料的情节转折
Culture HollywoodHollywoodHollywood, more than any other place in the world, represents the excitement and glamour of the film industry. The world's major film companies have studios in Hollywood and many famous film stars live in its fashionable and expensive Beverly Hills district. But Hollywood is also Tinseltown, where money can buy an expensive lifestyle but the pressure to succeed can destroy lives, as in the case of Marilyn Monroe and River Phoenix. Both the British and Americans have mixed feelings about Hollywood: they are attracted by the excitement of the film world and by the lives of the stars, but also see Hollywood as a symbol of trashy, commercial culture.Hollywood is now surrounded by Los Angeles. In 1908, when film companies began moving west from New York, it was a small, unknown community. The companies were attracted to California by its fine weather, which allowed them to film outside for most of the year, but they also wanted to avoid having to pay money to a group of studios led by Thomas Edison which were trying to establish a monopoly (= control of the industry so that only they could make films). By the 1920s, companies such as Universal Pictures and United Artists had set up studios around Hollywood. During this period Mary Pickford, , and John Barrymore became famous in silent films. Mack Sennett, a Canadian, began making comedy films, including those featuring the Keystone Kops, in which Charlie Chaplin and 'Fatty' Arbuckle became stars. D W Griffith directed expensive ' epic' films like The Birth of a Nation, and William S Hart made westerns popular. Hollywood also created its first sex symbol, Theda Bara (1890-1955).The 1920s saw big changes. The first film in Technicolor was produced in 1922. Warner Brothers was formed in 1923 and four years later produced Hollywood's first talkie (= film with spoken words), The Jazz Singer. Huge numbers of Americans were now attracted to the movies. Stars like Pickford and Chaplin reached the height of their fame, and new stars were discovered, such as Rudolph Valentino, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton.The 1930s and 1940s were Hollywood's ' golden age' and films became popular around the world. Hollywood even made successes out of America's worst times: Prohibition led to the gangster films of Edward G Robinson and James Cagney, and the Great Depression to films like The Grapes of Wrath. World War Two featured in successful films like Casablanca. The great Hollywood studios, MGM, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures, controlled the careers of actors. Famous directors of the time included Orson Welles and John Ford and screen stars included Clark Gable, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren BacallBette Davis, Gregory Peck, and Robert Mitchum.New words were invented to keep up with Hollywood's development: cliffhanger, tear-jerker, spine-chiller and western describe types of film. Villains became baddies or bad guys. As equipment became more complicated more people were needed to manage it. New jobs, still seen on lists of film credits today, included gaffer and best boy, his or her chief assistant.In the 1950s large numbers of people abandoned the movies in order to watch television. The film industry needed something new to attract them back. This led to the development of Cinerama and 3-D, which gave the audience the feeling of being part of the action. These proved too expensive but the wide screen of CinemaScope soon became standard throughout the world. 3-D has become popular again in the 21st century. The stars of the 1950s, including Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, James Dean and Steve McQueen, also kept the film industry alive.In the 1960s many companies began making films in other countries where costs were lower, and people said Hollywood would never again be the centre of the film industry. But the skills, equipment and money were still there, and Hollywood became important again in the 1980s. The old studios were bought by new media companies: 20th Century Fox was bought by Rupert Murdoch, and Columbia Pictures by the Sony Corporation. New energy came from independent directors and producers like Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford and Martin Scorsese. Rising stars included Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Costner and Tom Hanks.Now, more than ever, Hollywood leads the world's film industry, having produced the most expensive and successful films ever made, such as Jurassic Park (1993), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009) and Black Panther (2018). Companies like MGM own their own movie theaters in the US and elsewhere. Studios make extra profits from selling films to television companies and from selling downloads directly to consumers through streaming services such as Netflix. The Oscars, presented by Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are the most valued prizes in the industry.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- commercial
- Hollywood
- mainstream
- …
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French cinéma, abbreviation of cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- ‘movement’, from kinein ‘to move’.