box-office

基本解釋

Such spending, however, is no guarantee of box-office success.
然而，如此花費(fèi)巨資并不是票房成功的保證。
A joint letter from Hollywood’s trade associations points out that box-office figures, though treated as reliable, are in fact estimates by the studios.
好萊塢貿(mào)易協(xié)會(huì)的一封聯(lián)名信指出票房數(shù)據(jù)雖被當(dāng)作可靠數(shù)據(jù)，但這些數(shù)據(jù)實(shí)際上出自電影公司的估算。
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Unless you regard something like “Iron Man” as a film about Afghanistan, the movies inspired by America’s contemporary wars have consistently been box-office flops.
如果不算上《鋼鐵俠》這樣的電影，從美國(guó)正在進(jìn)行的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中汲取靈感的電影在票房方面一直都鮮有勝績(jī)。

In recent years, Comic-Con has helped launch films such as Iron Man and Avatar to tremendous box office success.
Avatar,the biggest box office success in history, has opened the door for 3-D TV.
The miniseries, which was co-produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Home Box Office or HBO cable network, explored relations within the former Iraqi dictator's family and inner circle.

But it does nothing to reduce the risks that the movie will be a box-office dud.
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The box office in a theatre or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
When people talk about the box office, they are referring to the degree of success of a film or play in terms of the number of people who go to watch it or the amount of money it makes.