box office

短语
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票房, 票房收入

发音

UK /ˈbɒksˌɒfɪs/
US /ˈbɑksˌɑfɪs/
US /ˈbɑksˌɔfɪs/

词形变化

box offices 复数

别名

box-office

教材释义与例句

名词

票房；售票处

名词

票房收入；票房作战；电影票房

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.

    票房

    售票处

    可数 媒体 艺术 不可数
  2. 2.

    The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.

    不可数 媒体 引申义 可数
  3. 3.

    Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so.

    不可数 可数

    His performance last night was pure box office.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

ticket booth ticket office

上位词 4

office gross receipts revenue

整体词 3

house theater theatre

词源

1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904. Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, the term is first attested over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely.

来源：wiktionary