jungle

英 ['d???g(?)l] 美['d???ɡl]

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復(fù)數(shù):?jungles;

jungle 叢林

來自印度語jangal,森林，荒漠，無人居住的土地。現(xiàn)多用于比喻義指水泥叢林，鋼鐵叢林。

jungle: jungle: [18] Not surprisingly, jungle is a tropical word, but its ancestor denoted quite the opposite of the lush vegetation it now refers to. It comes from Sanskrit jangala, which originally meant ‘dry’, and hence ‘desert’. Its Hindi descendant jangal was used for an ‘a(chǎn)rea of wasteland’, and hence ‘such an area overgrown with scrub’, and when it was taken over into Anglo-Indian it was gradually extended to an ‘a(chǎn)rea of thick tangled trees’.
jungle (n.): 1776, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Sanskrit jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass" is first recorded 1849; meaning "place notoriously lawless and violent" is first recorded 1906, from Upton Sinclair's novel (compare asphalt jungle, 1949, William R. Burnett's novel title, made into a film 1950 by John Huston; blackboard jungle, 1954, Evan Hunter's novel title, movie in 1955). Jungle gym was a trademark name, 1923, by Junglegym Inc., Chicago, U.S. Jungle bunny, derogatory for "black person," attested from 1966.

1. "Orchards would take the place of the jungle," he rhapsodized.: “要讓這片叢林成為果園，”他無比興奮地說。

2. If you make aggression pay, this becomes the law of the jungle.: 如果你通過侵略謀取利益，這就成了弱肉強(qiáng)食。

4. Social security law and procedure remain a jungle of complex rules.: 有關(guān)社會(huì)保障的法律和程序仍舊是個(gè)充滿錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的規(guī)則的危險(xiǎn)領(lǐng)域。

5. Domestic chickens are descended from jungle fowl of Southeast Asia.: 家雞是由東南亞原雞演變而來的。