box-office

基本解释

Such spending, however, is no guarantee of box-office success.
然而，如此花费巨资并不是票房成功的保证。
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.
好莱坞贸易协会的一封联名信指出票房数据虽被当作可靠数据，但这些数据实际上出自电影公司的估算。
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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《钢铁侠》这样的电影，从美国正在进行的战争中汲取灵感的电影在票房方面一直都鲜有胜绩。

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.