Foreign Journal Notes Official Account: If you want to learn to translate the movie
watched yesterday, and cried several times, I feel that it is more moving than xx action and xx lake.
The so-called big scenes with real guns and live ammunition sometimes make me sleepy. The Hong Kong action director and the main theme are the same.
commented, "It's too narrow to be the main theme." I do agree, I admire unarmed heroes. If
complains, I won't say it. The number one comment on Douban is my mouth.
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plummet; grinding
China Box Office: National Day Earnings Plummet 67 Percent as Grinding Market Slowdown Continues
中国票房：电影市场持续低迷，国庆票房暴跌67%
暴跌的英语我们都知道了，plummet和plunge Remember:
Share prices plummeted to an all-time low.
stock prices plummeted to an all-time low.
Stock markets plunged at the news of the coup.
Stock markets plummeted as soon as news of the coup came.
✏️Stock price is often closely related to value, so if it's a "decline in volume, value or price" you can use plummet and plunge.
不得不说，grinding总让我想到“磨人的小妖精”：
(of a difficult situation 困难的形势) that never ends or improves 没完没了的；无休止的；无改进的
grinding poverty
贫困不堪
This expression paired with grind can be remembered: grind sb. downto treat sb in a cruel unpleasant way over a long period of time, so that they become very unhappy let them grind you down.
don't let them bully you.
The box office is much lower than the normal level
Although it is much lower than the normal level in the past, but everyone should be high! This year, I finally don't have my xx series! I'd rather watch Uncle Shen's single movie ten times than watch a platter that is wrapped around.
But overall sales during the weekend were a fraction of the usual level, as a grinding slowdown in consumer activity continues to weigh on the film business. ——hollywood reporter
Consumption recovery is slow, the film market continues to slump, and the overall weekend box office is much lower than usual Level.
Also new was China's Home Coming, which, although it did about $60M in the home market, wasn't a patch on last year's National Day blockbuster (the blockbuster thing) The Battle at Lake Changjin (more on those below). —— deadline
The Chinese movie "Returning Miles" is also a new film. Although it achieved about 60 million US dollars in the domestic market, this is far lower than the box office of last year's National Day blockbuster "Battle of Changjin Lake".
root knock:
fraction: frag, fract = to break
In the same root word fragile, fragment, fraction and fracture, the root frag and fract come from the Latin verb frangere, which means to break in English.
fraction literally means "broken into small parts", which by extension means "fraction".
learn an expression, be not a patch on sb/sth described as "to be much less good, attractive, etc. than sb/sth else; far inferior to".
My new phone isn’t a patch on the old one.
My new phone is way worse than the old one.
Film plot
The film stars Zhang Yi, Wang Junkai and Yin Tao and tells the story of two courageous unarmed diplomats who travel to war-torn Africa to bring 125 Chinese citizens safey back to the motherland.
勇敢英语：courageous, dauntless, fortitude, gallant, valiant，bold
I hope people will be courageous enough to speak out against this injustice.
我希望人们能敢于大胆说出来，反对这种不公。
I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.
Grey and foaming in the bitter north wind, he stared bewilderedly at the French coast that was disappearing and never to be seen again. I think there is a certain heroic spirit in his act, a fearless courage in his soul. - The Moon and Sixpence
Ron made a valiant effort to get up again but fell back with a whimper of pain.
Ron tried to get up again but failed, groaned in pain and fell again. - "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
