| 单词 | tentpole |
| 释义 | > as lemmastent-pole tent-pole n. ΚΠ 1706 London Gaz. No. 4189/4 Out of the Albion Frigat,..Pictures, Tent Poles. 1864 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 14 Your hands have borne the tent-poles. 1974 R. Adams Shardik xviii. 134 His ugly, unmarriageable tent-pole of a daughter. 1979 Guardian 12 June 2/4 These..facts..were..‘the fixed and rigid tentpoles’ of the whole edifice of the prosecution case. tentpole tentpole adj. and n. Film (a) adj. designating a big-budget film which is expected to generate sufficient revenue to support a range of other projects by the same studio; of or relating to such a film; (b) n. a film of this kind. ΚΠ 1987 N.Y. Times 4 June. c21/6 Mr. Mancuso describes ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ as a ‘tent pole’ movie. Each year Paramount makes several high-budget films ‘that..are strong enough to support your entire schedule,’ he said. 1987 N.Y. Times 5 Sept. c15/3 He [sc. Mancuso] rescued ‘Top Gun’ from the discard pile because he thought the combination of aerial photography, Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis..might make a tent pole. 1991 Premiere Nov. 31/2 Tartikoff..was so eager to make Patriot Games part of a new ‘tent pole’ series that he'd already upped its budget from $28 million to $35 million. 2006 Y. Tzioumakis Amer. Independent Cinema Introd. 11 Tent pole films with potential for stratospheric profits. 2012 Variety 27 Feb. 9/3 Studios [were] less likely to take risks on unproven projects, and instead turned their attention to big-budget tentpoles. < as lemmas |
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