blockbuster的词源
英文词源
- blockbuster (n.)
- also block-buster, big bomb (4,000 pounds or larger, according to some sources), 1942, from block (n.) in the "built-up city square" sense. Entertainment sense is attested from 1957. U.S. sense of "real estate broker who sells a house to a black family on an all-white neighborhood," thus sparking an exodus, is from 1955.
中文词源
block,大块。buster, 炸开,来自burst, 爆裂,字母r脱落。
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本指二战期间轰炸德国时使用的一种威力巨大的炸弹,因为一枚炸弹就可以摧毁(bust [bʌst] v.使爆裂)一整个街区(block),后来被美国新闻出版业用来指那些震撼观众头脑(block俚语含义指脑袋)的电影作品。blockbuster movie卖座电影。