January box-office earnings hit record high
中国1月票房飙升至历史新高
Buoyed by huge Spring Festival movie ticket sales, the first month of 2023 took a giant leap to become the highest-grossing January of all time in China, according to the China Film Administration.
国家电影局数据显示，受春节档电影票房火爆的影响，2023年第一个月实现巨大飞跃，创中国影史最高1月票房纪录。
Selling a total of 201 million tickets for 10 million screenings in over 10,000 cinemas, the country saw its overall box-office earnings exceed 10 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) by February 7th. This represented a 270 percent increase from 2.7 billion yuan in the same period last year.
截至2月7日，全国1万多家影院放映1000万场，共售出2.01亿张电影票，总票房收入超过100亿元（14.8亿美元），较去年同期的27亿元增长了270%。
With the rapid expansion of the domestic film industry in recent decades, people have started a new custom of going to cinemas during Spring Festival, turning the weeklong holiday into a lucrative box-office season, insiders said.
业内人士称，近几十年来国内电影行业迅速发展，春节期间去电影院成为人们过年的新习俗。因此，为期一周的假期也变成了盈利丰厚的票房季。
The appealing lineup of new movies, coupled with China's optimization of COVID-19 control measures, further made the January box-office earnings soar.
春节期间新电影的阵容让人眼前一亮，再加上疫情防控措施的优化，都进一步推动了1月电影票房的飙升。
Full River Red, director Zhang Yimou's twist-studded story, topped the charts, followed by the sci-fi movie The Wandering Earth II and animated film Boonie Bears: Guardian Code in second and third place, respectively.
张艺谋导演的《满江红》，故事情节曲折离奇，名列票房榜首，紧随其后的分别是科幻电影《流浪地球2》和动画电影《熊出没·伴我“熊芯”》。
重点知识积累
take a giant leap 迈出一大步，取得巨大成功
make a leap 纵身一跳；飞速增长
sudden leap 突然一跃；猛增
leap to your feet 迅速站起来
...turning the weeklong holiday into a lucrative box-office season, insiders said.
turning 这里涉及到的是现在分词作结果状语。
e.g. She was so angry that she threw the toy on the ground, breaking it into pieces.
她非常生气，把玩具扔在地上，摔成了碎片。
课外加餐
今天，我们再来积累一些电影相关的表达吧！
thrillers 惊悚片
romantic comedies/romcoms 浪漫喜剧片
animated film 动画片
chick-flick 女性电影
tear-jerker 催泪弹；催人泪下的电影
leading actor and actress 男女主角
supporting actors and actresses 男女配角
director 导演
screenwriter 编剧
silent cinema/silent films 无声电影
sound motion picture/talkie 有声电影
