[電影] franchise
The other day I came across the word (I bet there'll be a lot of my blogposts starting with this sentence) franchise watching TV. blah blah blah....the CSI franchise....blah blah blah... I didn't what it meant but it's not hard to guess, especially after I bumped into an entertainment news on the "Holmes franchise" done by the Iron Man. 基本上一看到 franchise 這個字，我們這種ESL（把英文當外語學）的人能夠知道是 連鎖加盟 就算中上了。 < Macmillan > eg.: Most of the Burger King outlets operate as franchises . 因為我們的英語教學（學校系統，而非補習班）教材很少用上它的另一個字義：