cinema: [20] The cinema is so named because it shows moving pictures. The Greek verb for ‘move’ was kīnein (source of English kinetic and, via the related Latin cīre, a range of -cite words, including excite, incite, and recite). Its noun derivative was kínēma ‘movement’, from which in 1896 Auguste and Louis Jean Lumière coined the French term cinématographe for their new invention for recording and showing moving pictures.
This and its abbreviated form cinéma soon entered English, the latter in 1909. In early years the graecized form kinema had some currency in English, but this had virtually died out by the 1940s. => cite, excite, kinetic, incite, recite
cinema (n.)
1899, "a movie hall," from French cinéma, shortened from cinématographe "motion picture projector and camera," coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented it, from Latinized form of Greek kinemat-, comb. form of kinema "movement," from kinein "to move" (see cite) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Meaning "movies collectively, especially as an art form" recorded by 1914. Cinéma vérité is 1963, from French.
实用例句
1. Working with Ford closely, I fell in love with the cinema.
与福特的密切合作开始令我爱上了电影。
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2. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
当代非洲电影在活力和新颖性上颇足称道。
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3. Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film's violent and tragic end.
许多来看电影的人都被这部影片暴力而悲惨的结局所震惊。
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4. I prefer going to the cinema to watching TV.
我更喜欢看电影而不是看电视。
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5. I can't remember the last time we went to the cinema.
