box office

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɒksˌɒfɪs/    美 /ˈbɑksˌɑfɪs/|/ˈbɑksˌɔfɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema. countable
    — The movie tanked at the box office.
  2. The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters. broadly,uncountable
    — box office receipts
  3. Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so. uncountable
    — His performance last night was pure box office.

词形变化

box offices plural box-office alternative boxoffice alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
box-office bomb poison at the box office
相关词
ticket office booking office ticket window cume will call

词源

1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904.
Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, the term is first attested over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely.
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