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.
雙語例句
1. Working with Ford closely, I fell in love with the cinema.
與福特的密切合作開始令我愛上了電影。
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2. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
當代非洲電影在活力和新穎性上頗足稱道。
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3. Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film's violent and tragic end.
許多來看電影的人都被這部影片暴力而悲慘的結局所震驚。
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4. I prefer going to the cinema to watching TV.
我更喜歡看電影而不是看電視。
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5. I can't remember the last time we went to the cinema.