外刊笔记 | 如何用英语小词形容《复联4》的火爆？没有剧透
今天和大家聊一聊最近很火的一部电影。
这两天也爬墙搜索了一些外媒报道，我们将关注点落在：
如何形容这部电影的成功，万人空巷？
带着这样的问题去读外刊，我们就会发现很多值得积累记忆的花式表达。拿出小本本记下来，回头不论是写作还是翻译，都可以用上。
be wildly anticipated/popular
wildly表示程度：extremely非常，极其
The band is wildly popular in Cuba. 这支乐队在古巴深受欢迎。
wildly inaccurate statements 离谱的说法
可作表语或名词前的定语，修饰这部影片，比如这个关于《复联4》的新闻句子：
Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Endgame, the Russo Brothers' wildly anticipatedfranchise closer, is flexing its muscles for a record-smashing run in China.
the Russo Brothers' wildly anticipated franchise closer是同位语，对这部电影的进一步描述。
franchise这个词在《复联4》的相关报道中经常出现: N-COUNT a series of films that have the same or similar titles and are about the same characters，比如蜘蛛侠系列电影：the Spiderman movie franchise.
这句话中还可以关注flex muscles，一个常见词组，颇有点“秀肌肉”的含义：to show your ability to do something, especially your skill or power展示自己的才能〔尤指技艺或力量〕
The role will allow her to flex her acting muscles. 这个角色使她能够施展自己的表演才能.
tentpole
这个词从字面上看是帐篷的支柱，引申一下有“顶梁柱”的意思，在英文里的含义是：a film that is expected to be very successful and so able to fund a range of related products or films 支柱电影，比如：
this year's big tentpole movie今年的支柱大片
毫无疑问，《复联4》就是这样的tentpole，比如这句新闻：
As of midday Tuesday Beijing time, the tentpole, set to open in China on Wednesday, had already reached $90 million (RMB 603 million) in presales, setting a new all-time presales record, ahead of local tentpole Monster Hunt 2 (RMB 401 million) and Avengers: Infinity War (RMB 398 million).
set a ... record, smash a record，通过打破纪录等数据侧面衬托电影的轰动
比如上一个句子中的：
...is flexing its muscles for a record-smashing run in China.
smash a record: to do something much faster, better etc than anyone has done before打破纪录
The film smashed all box office records. 这部影片打破了所有的票房纪录。
run: [C] a continuous series of performances of a play, film etc in the same place〔在相同地方的〕连续上演
His first play had a three-month run in the West End. 他的第一部戏在伦敦西区连续上演了三个月。
说明这部电影在中国打破了连续放映的纪录。
还有刚才这个句子：
...had already reached $90 million (RMB 603 million) in presales, setting a new all-time presales record, ahead of local tentpole Monster Hunt 2 (RMB 401 million) and Avengers: Infinity War (RMB 398 million).
这句话是从预售的角度列举数据衬托电影的火爆，set a new all-time presales record，创下预售纪录新高。
all-time ADJ You use all-time when you are comparing all the things of a particular type that there have ever been. For example, if you say that something is the all-time best, you mean that it is the best thing of its type that there has ever been. 空前的
比如处于历史最低点 be at an all-time low
be the highest-grossing，用票房说话
说到电影票房喜人，大赚一笔，可能会想到rake in这个词组。比如前两年很火的一步国产动画片《大圣归来》，外媒有句报道是这样写的：
The animation film raked in RMB 200m in six days just by word-of-mouth praise, setting a record for homemade animation.大圣归来依靠口碑传播，6天票房破2亿，创造了国产动画电影的一个纪录。
也是通过票房数据形容一步影片的成功。
还有另一个动词可以专门赚钱：gross
to gain an amount as a total profit, or earn it as a total amount, before tax has been taken away获得…的总利润[毛利，税前收入]
The movie has already grossed over $10 million. 这部电影票房总收入已经超过1,000万美元。
电影+gross+金额，可以表达某部电影的票房达到多少。
如果要说《复联4》这部电影创下了史上最高票房，可以是the highest-grossing作形容词定语，比如这句报道：
The latest Marvel movie is the last in their epic 22-film series, the industry'shighest-grossing franchise of all time.
好，总结一下，这篇文章列举了3种捧《复联4》的表达方式，分别是：
1、形容词作定语，直接捧，be wildly anticipated/popular；
2、名词体现电影的作用地位，直接捧，tentpole；
3、通过创下的纪录和票房收入等数据，间接捧：set a ... record, smash a ... record, be the highest-grossing, rake in/gross (how much money)
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