/ˈsɪnəmə ||; ˈsɪnəmə/noun1 [C] (Brit 英) a place where you go to see a film 电影院: What's on at the cinema this week? 这个星期电影院上映什么电影?
In American English, you use movie theater to talk about the building where films are shown but the movies when you are talking about going to see a film there There are five movie theaters in this town. Let's go to the movies this evening. 美国英语称电影院为movie theater:There are five movie theaters in this town.这个镇有五家电影院。去看电影则用the movies:Let's go to the movies this evening.今晚我们去看电影吧。 2 [U] films in general; the film industry 电影(总称);电影业: one of the great successes of British cinema 英国电影业的辉煌成就之一