cinema
cinema — 名詞
1. a building with a large white screen where visitors pay to see films shown to th
電影院
放映電影的公共場所
a building with a large white screen where visitors pay to see films shown to the public
The new cinema downtown has eight screens and a small café.
市中心那家新電影院有八個放映廳和一間小咖啡廳。
Aiko bought two tickets at the cinema for the Saturday show.
Aiko 在電影院買了兩張週六場次的票。
at the cinema to buy tickets for a specific event
The old cinema on Main Street closed down last year.
Main Street 那家老電影院去年關門了。
There is a cinema near the park that shows films from other countries.
公園附近有一家電影院，會放映其他國家的電影。
The cinema was full of children watching the new animated film.
那家電影院坐滿了來看新動畫片的孩子。
- movie theater
the standard American English term for this sense
- multiplex
a large cinema with many screens, often part of a chain
- film house
a more formal or literary term, sometimes used for art-house cinemas
文法句型
at the cinema
to the cinema
cinema + singular/plural verb
用法筆記
In American English, movie theater is more common than cinema for this sense. Speakers of British English use cinema for both the building and the activity.
常見錯誤
2. the social custom of watching films at a movie theatre, often done regularly wit
看電影
去電影院觀賞影片的活動
the social custom of watching films at a movie theatre, often done regularly with friends or family as a shared leisure activity
Friday night is cinema night for the Huang family.
週五晚上是黃家的電影之夜。
Yara and her cousins enjoy going to the cinema every weekend.
Yara 和她的表兄弟姊妹每個週末都喜歡去看電影。
go to the cinema on a regular basis
More people now stream films at home instead of going to the cinema.
現在愈來愈多人寧可在家串流看電影，也不去電影院。
What time does the last showing at the cinema start tonight?
今晚電影院最後一場幾點開演？
Ravi suggested going to the cinema after work on Friday.
Ravi 提議星期五下班後去看電影。
- going to the movies
the standard American English equivalent
- movie-going
a formal noun form, as in the movie-going public
文法句型
go to the cinema
at the cinema
用法筆記
Most common in British English. The fixed phrase go to the cinema (not go to cinema) is the standard way to express this activity. The American equivalent is go to the movies.
常見錯誤
3. the art, business, and cultural world of making films, looked at as a whole rath
電影
作為藝術形式或產業的電影
the art, business, and cultural world of making films, looked at as a whole rather than as single works
The cinema of Taiwan has won many awards at international film festivals.
台灣電影在國際影展上贏得了許多獎項。
[country] + cinema to mean a national film culture
Leila studied French cinema at university and later became a film director.
Leila 在大學攻讀法國電影，後來成為一名導演。
Digital technology has changed the cinema industry over the past twenty years.
數位科技在過去二十年間徹底改變了電影產業。
Japanese cinema is known for its strong use of colour and visual storytelling.
日本電影以強烈的色彩運用和視覺敘事著稱。
Nadia wrote her thesis on the role of women in early European cinema.
Nadia 的論文主題是早期歐洲電影中的女性角色。
- film
the most common synonym; film is used more in academic or artistic contexts (film studies, film theory)
- motion pictures
a formal or old-fashioned term, especially in American English
- the big screen
an informal, metaphorical phrase, as in her debut on the big screen
文法句型
[nationality] + cinema
cinema + [noun]
world cinema
用法筆記
Frequently used with a country name (French cinema, Japanese cinema) or a describing word (world cinema, independent cinema, early cinema) to refer to the film culture of a particular place, time, or type.