“go to the cinema” vs. "go to school"

spoony1971 · 发表于 2014-9-20 12:35:16

查遍longman5 extra examples,和两千英文名著，竟然没有一个"go to cinema"的例子。
看来“go to the cinema”才是准确的。

而“go to school" vs. "go to the school"中学教的倒没错。

mofunzone · 发表于 2014-9-20 15:06:37

http://www.italki.com/question/105894

When you use 'go to cinema' you mean any cinema in general ,the concept of going to a movie theatre and watching a movie as in :

" Why do people like to go to cinema?"

If you are more specific and mention that you are going to watch a movie in the cinema and you certainly mean a certain movie and cinema in this case you say:

"I am going to the cinema tonight, would you like to join me?"

spoony1971 · 发表于 2014-9-20 16:14:43

本帖最后由 spoony1971 于 2014-9-20 16:19 编辑

mofunzone 发表于 2014-9-20 15:06
http://www.italki.com/question/105894

When you use 'go to cinema' you mean any cinema in general ...

这个是生造出来的句子，我没在文学作品中找到哪怕一个例子。
包括longman5 13０Ｍ的句库。相反"go to the cinema"无穷多。

悠然听松 · 发表于 2014-9-20 18:25:15

语料库（http://corpus.byu.edu/）中搜索结果：
COCA、BNC两个英语语料库都搜不到“go to cinema”
最大的语料库GloWbE倒是能搜到：
"go to the cinema" 出现 448 次（US 33 次，GB 226 次）
"go to cinema" 出现 30 次（US 2 次，GB 7 次）
有一个英国《卫报》上的例句：
It's like those people who go to cinema and watch Bruce Lee film and come out thinking that if they wear kung-fu gear and perform moves in films then they are Bruce Lee.

jazzmood · 发表于 2014-9-20 19:58:11

go to cinema 例子确实少。
少得想跟俺当年的英语老师说，上课讲点别的吧。

现在也想起来，俺的老师讲过这个滴。

还是把能找到的例子放在这里。

时代杂志两例：
Monday, Feb. 23, 1925
The New Pictures
The Man Without a Country.
They say that there was considerable of a struggle in the breast of the producer before they decided to leave this title in its place. It didn't seem to suggest bootlegging, seduction, happiness or any of the few inevitables for which people are supposed to go to cinema. Leave it he did, however, and thereby displayed rare good sense. For the picture, based upon the poem, is a sincere and sensitive document. It depicts the long sea exile of the man who said: "Damn the United States." It is an illustration of one of the sagas of U. S. history, and it deserves a place in everyone's calendar.

Monday, Jul. 25, 1994
Going Wild
By DAVID SEIDEMAN/YOSEMITE
Sometimes the measures are even more drastic. On Memorial Day weekend last year, holiday gridlock at Yosemite forced rangers to close gates, turning away more than 750 vehicles. As a last resort, other parks, including Mammoth Cave, sell reserved tickets through a commercial agency, Mistix. David Mihalic, the former superintendent of Mammoth who now heads Glacier park, thinks rationing makes perfect sense to people: "When you go to Cinema 6 and Terminator 2 is sold out, maybe you go see another movie." Sacrificing some human concerns for nature's well-being may not please everyone, but the loss of paradise would prove even less popular.

http://www.worldandi.com/
World and I 一份美国杂志中仅出现一例。
Remaking Man
Article #: 11424 Section: NATURAL SCIENCE - SCIENCE AND SPIRIT File Size: 2,360 words Issue Date: 11 / 1986 Author: Alexis Carrel

They will not be able to play golf and bridge, to go to cinemas, to listen to radios, to make speeches at banquets, to serve on committees, to attend meetings of scientific societies, political conventions, and academies, or to cross the ocean and take part in international congresses.

spoony1971 · 发表于 2014-9-20 21:52:52

忘了说，"go to cinemas"在longman5是有的。好像这种说法是正常的，排除掉这种情形，及“go to Cinema 6”，真正的“go to cinema"在jazzmood的三个例子中仅出现一次。

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