2the cinemaBritish EnglishBrE if you go to the cinema, you go to a cinema to see a film (去)电影院看电影
We decided to go to the cinema.
我们决定去电影院看电影。
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go to the cinema• We could go to the cinema maybe.• Everyone enjoysgoing to the cinema and it would be nice if it could also be taken seriously.• The last time I went to the cinema was when I saw 'Stigmata'.• My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy.• And so they went to the cinema.• He was to be allowed to go to the cinema with her.• One night three of us decided to go to the cinema.• Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again.
(1900-2000)cinematograph“movie camera, movie show”((19-20 centuries)), from Frenchcinématographe, from Greekkinema“movement” + French-graphe“recording instrument”