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【高频词解析】 Dash v.飞奔; 赶紧走; 猛摔; 使(希望或期望)破灭; 猛冲,急奔,快跑 When the doors opened, there was a mad dash for seats. 门一开,人们便疯狂地朝座位奔去。 When does watching a film become such a slog? 什么时候看电影变成了一件苦差事? 【超纲词解析】 Slog vt.& vi.猛击; 步履艰难地行; 努力苦干 n.苦干; 吃力地行进 【记忆】记住一个人在slope斜坡吃力地行进 Writing the book took ten months of hard slog. 这本书是苦熬十个月写出来的。 ②The Economist analyzed over 100,000 feature films released internationally since the 1930s, the start of Hollywood's golden age, using data from IMDB ,a movie database. 句子结构分析:the start of...补充修饰the 1930年;a movie database做同位语补充修饰IMDB;using...非谓语动词做伴随状语 句意:《经济学人》利用电影数据库IMDB的数据,分析了自20世纪30年代好莱坞黄金时代开始以来在全球发行的10多万部故事片。 The average length of productions rose by around 24%,from one hour and 21 minutes in the 1930s to one hour and 47minutes in 2022. 句子结构分析:from...to 做同位语补充解释around 24% 制作的平均长度增加了约24%,从20世纪30年代的1小时21分钟增加到2022年的1小时47分钟。 For the ten most-popular titles, the average length grew to around two and a half hours in 2022,nearly 50%higher than in the 1930s. 2022年,十大最受欢迎的游戏的平均时长增长到两个半小时左右,比上世纪30年代高出近50%。 ③One driver of this trend is that studios want to squeeze the most out of their costly intellectual property(知识产权), but they are competing with streaming platforms for eyeballs. 句子结构分析:that引导表语从句 推动这一趋势的一个因素是,电影公司希望最大限度地利用其昂贵的知识产权(知识产权),但他们也在与流媒体平台争夺眼球。 The hope is that a spectacular, drawn-out "event" movie will draw audiences away from the small screen and into cinemas. 句子结构分析:that引导表语从句 句意:他们希望一部壮观的、旷日持久的“大事件”电影能把观众从小屏幕吸引到电影院。 This approach has often paid off: Avengers, Endgame, Marvel's three-hour superhero masterpieces, was the highest-grossing(票房最高的)film in 2019. 这种方法通常会得到回报:漫威的超级英雄杰作《复联4:终局之战》是2019年票房最高的电影(票房最高的)。 【固定搭配分析】 Pay off 取得搭配;偿还 It would take him the rest of his life to pay off that loan. 他得用余生来还清那笔贷款。 Last year long movies series made up most of the highest-grossing films in America. 去年,长篇系列电影占据了美国最卖座电影的大部分。 ④Another explanation for longer films has to do with directors' growing influence. 另一种解释是,导演的影响力越来越大。 Who would dare tell the lik