Hollywood

英 ['hɔliwud] 美

n. 好莱坞

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Hollywood 好莱坞

美国加利福尼亚州影视基地，词源版本众多。其中一种说法是来自莱坞之父19世纪房地产开发商H.J.Whitley,据日记记载他在好莱坞某山顶渡蜜月时一个拉着板车的中国人跟他问了个好，他礼貌性的回应“你好，在做什么”，那个板车夫用拉长了音调的中式英语回应道，”I holly wood,”即I am hauling wood.Whitley觉得这个中式英语很好听，Hollywood因此得名。

助记提示

1. 音译“好莱坞”。
2. Holly（冬青树） + Wood（树林） => HollyWood (好莱坞：字面含义：冬青树林)，因为好莱坞原来有一大片的冬青树林。

英文词源

Hollywood: region near Los Angeles, named for the ranch that once stood there, which was named by Deida Wilcox, wife of Horace H. Wilcox, Kansas City real estate man, when they moved there in 1886. They began selling off building lots in 1891 and the village was incorporated in 1903. Once a quiet farming community, by 1910 barns were being converted into movie studios. The name was used generically for "American movies" from 1926, three years after the giant sign was set up, originally Hollywoodland, another real estate developer's promotion.

双语例句

1. The Ball was attended by the cream of Hollywood society.: 好莱坞的大牌影星们出席了那个舞会。

2. This movie made him the most bankable star in Hollywood.: 这部电影让他一举成为好莱坞最具票房号召力的明星。

3. Arran became increasingly estranged from the mainstream of Hollywood.: 阿伦变得越来越脱离好莱坞的主流了。

4. The glitterati of Hollywood are flocking to Janet Vaughan's nail salon.: 众多的好莱坞名流都去光顾珍妮特·沃恩的美甲店。

5. Superwoman exists only in the minds of journalists and Hollywood producers.: 超级女人只存在于记者和好莱坞制片人的脑子里。

英英释意

1. the film industry of the United States

2. a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry;: "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood"

3. a district of Los Angeles long associated with the American film industry

考试真题

The way in which Mr Jobs revived the failing company he had co-founded and turned it into the world's biggest tech firm (bigger even than Bill Gates's Microsoft, the company that had outsmarted Apple so dramatically in the 1980s), sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.

If this were a Hollywood movie, the courageous old Indiana farmer would beat the profit-minded corporation before the credits rolled.

The ruling would be in Bowman's favor if the case were argued in a Hollywood movie

Hollywood movies usually have an unexpected, dramatic impact on real-life arguments.

He was best at acting in Hollywood tragedies.

Researchers have found not just a diversity problem in Hollywood, but actually an inclusion crisis.

You'll live in a big house in Hollywood, go to the Oscars every year—and win! You'll be rich and famous.

But more than thirty books came up when I typed in ‘Hollywood comedies'.

I've got to write a paper about Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, and I'm really struggling.

Once, after a trip to Hollywood, I returned to Australia so depressed and spent months in my bedroom painting, listening to Eckhart Tolle's music and trying to find myself again.

实用场景例句

The Ball was attended by the cream of Hollywood society.: 好莱坞的大牌影星们出席了那个舞会。

This movie made him the most bankable star in Hollywood.: 这部电影让他一举成为好莱坞最具票房号召力的明星。

Arran became increasingly estranged from the mainstream of Hollywood.: 阿伦变得越来越脱离好莱坞的主流了。

The glitterati of Hollywood are flocking to Janet Vaughan's nail salon.: 众多的好莱坞名流都去光顾珍妮特·沃恩的美甲店。

Hollywood cameramen have good reason to blow their own trumpets.: 好莱坞的摄影师们有足够的理由可以自我吹嘘。

Hollywood has been talking about economizing on movie budgets.: 好莱坞一直在讨论紧缩电影预算。

Getting Hollywood's latest films released on laser-disc has also helped.: 通过激光视盘发行好莱坞最新电影也起到了一定作用。

"Basic Instinct" catapulted her to top status among Hollywood's glamour goddesses.: 《本能》使她跃至一线，成功跻身好莱坞耀眼的女明星之列。

Downtime in Hollywood can cost a lot of money.: 在好莱坞停工会损失许多钱。

Hollywood soon became rife with rumors.: 整个好莱坞顿时流言四起。

Leggy blondes are two a penny in Hollywood.: 在好莱坞，长腿金发美女遍地都是。

By now Murphy is Hollywood'stop male comedy star.: 墨菲现在已经是好莱坞的一线男喜剧明星了。

The bright lights of Hollywood beckon many.: 好莱坞的花花世界吸引了很多人。

The formula in Hollywood is simple—money talks.: 好莱坞的生存规则很简单，就是金钱万能。

Hollywood was an uncongenial place to work.: 好莱坞是个不适宜工作的地方。

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