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blockbuster

/blok-buhs-ter/US // ˈblɒkˌbʌs tər //UK // (ˈblɒkˌbʌstə) //

大片,大卖场,大片的,大片人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an aerial bomb containing high explosives and weighing from four to eight tons, used as a large-scale demolition bomb.
    • : a motion picture, novel, etc., especially one lavishly produced, that has or is expected to have wide popular appeal or financial success.
    • : something or someone that is forcefully or overwhelmingly impressive, effective, or influential: The campaign was a blockbuster.
    • : a real-estate speculator who practices blockbusting.

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Examples

  • The carousel is already spinning in a peculiar new way, the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams having set the tone for a wild market with their blockbuster swap of Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff.

  • The NFL’s quarterback shuffling has begun, and the first blockbuster trade of the offseason is in place.

  • Unless people miss audience members talking or eating loudly during a movie, it’s hard to see viewers reverting en masse to movie houses—with the likely exception of seeing blockbuster movies that demand the big screen.

  • That mild air foiled any chance of a blockbuster snowstorm of the likes seen in northern Pennsylvania, south central New York and Vermont, where more than 40 inches fell in a few locations.

  • Overall, mortgage rates remain very low and are unlikely to shift unless a blockbuster spending package is passed before the end of the year.

  • The 2012 miniseries he co-starred in, Hatfields McCoys, was a ratings blockbuster for the History channel.

  • Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude.

  • Cast Angelina Jolie in that role with Brad Pitt as the cave hubbie, and maybe we have a blockbuster in the making.

  • Such standout performances have been rare: her big-screen blockbuster salvo, Batman Begins (2005), fizzled to nothing.

  • On no other show would you see an A-list actor from a newly released blockbuster like Gone Girl getting fired up over Islam.

  • We used to think that the B-17 was a huge plane, and the blockbuster it carried a huge load.

  • Our own blockbuster should get there before they fire again.