资料来源：《英语畅谈世界文化》








每天一分钟，我们一起玩转世界文化
每年的好莱坞大片都让电影迷们兴奋不已，好莱坞是一个制造梦想的地方，今天我们来看看这个星光熠熠的好莱坞。
童鞋们注意引号不写，是英式拼写哦~~

Hints:
Hollywood
"Silver Screen"
Rancho La Brea 拉布里尔达牧场
Rancho Los Feliz 洛斯菲力兹牧场
H. H. Wilcox H.H.威力克斯
Nestor Company 内斯特公司
Sunset and Gower 日落高尔街角
Boulevard
Are you reading about gossip again? Hollywood gossip. What's wrong with that? You should be studying, not reading rubbish. I'm studying. It's all about the history of Hollywood. Sounds interesting, I know something about that. It's the movie capital of world, the home of the "Silver Screen". But before Hollywood was Hollywood, it was Rancho La Brea and Rancho Los Feliz. In 1886, H. H. Wilcox bought an area of Rancho La Brea that his wife then christened "Hollywood". He bought the area to make a place for rich mid-westerners to spend their winter holidays, not to make movies. In 1911, the Nestor Company opened Hollywood's first film studio in an old tavern on the corner of Sunset and Gower. That's how it all began. So, because of the new industry being created Hollywood would have to develop into more than just a small community. It wasn't long before nearly all the homes along the Boulevard were replaced by commercial buildings linking the three corners. Right, people needed to work there. Also people need to have fun there, banks, restaurants, clubs and movie palaces sprang up during the 1920s and 1930s. They also need grand houses for the stars.