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每天一分鐘，我們一起玩轉(zhuǎn)世界文化
每年的好萊塢大片都讓電影迷們興奮不已，好萊塢是一個(gè)制造夢(mèng)想的地方，今天我們來(lái)看看這個(gè)星光熠熠的好萊塢。
童鞋們注意引號(hào)不寫，是英式拼寫哦~~

Hints:
Hollywood
"Silver Screen"
Rancho La Brea 拉布里爾達(dá)牧場(chǎng)
Rancho Los Feliz 洛斯菲力茲牧場(chǎng)
H. H. Wilcox H.H.威力克斯
Nestor Company 內(nèi)斯特公司
Sunset and Gower 日落高爾街角
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.