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    A cheap, dirty, run-down cinema — the kind with sticky floors, torn seats and a smell you don't want to think about. The joke inside the word is that the place has fleas in it. It is British, old-fashioned, and almost always said with a smile: people call a cinema a fleapit , the way you might call your old car a piece of junk while still driving it every day. It can stretch to a theatre, a club, or sometimes any shabby building, but cinemas are its home. Note that it is not really an insult about the people there — it is about the state of the room. Younger people in Britain say it much less now; older people still do. You will meet this word in writing, in film reviews and in memoirs, far more often than you will hear it.

    破爛的小戲院、二輪戲院(帶點自嘲的玩笑口氣,不是真的罵人)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成flea (跳蚤) + pit (坑、洞;也指老式劇院前排的便宜座位區) — literally 'a pit with fleas in it'. The 'pit' part is the old theatre word for the cheap floor-level seating, so the word puts the fleas exactly where the cheapest seats are.

同家族的字

  • pitfallshares 'pit' — a hole you fall into
  • flea marketshares 'flea' — a market of cheap second-hand things

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。