| 单词 | urban jungle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasurban jungle urban jungle n. a dangerous, bewilderingly complex, or fast-paced urban environment; an urban area characterized by ruthless competition, struggle, or exploitation. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > disreputable purlieu1619 urban jungle1849 cardboard city1876 skid road1880 skid row1931 New Jack City1989 1849 Times 22 Oct. 4/5 The neighbouring inhabitants of New Oxford-street strive to shut out, by hoardings 20 feet high, the loathsome exhalations of this urban jungle. 1926 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Mar. 2 (heading) Wild urban jungle has no terrors for man: Humanity adjusts itself quickly to the cliff-dwelling life here and learns to survive its dangers. 1968 Internat. Migration Rev. 2 12 In the cities the chain communities had the character of the settled ‘urban village’ rather than the unsettled delinquency-prone atmosphere of the ‘urban jungle’, so often formed in the U.S.A. in the days of mass immigration. 1997 Time Out N.Y. 31 July 8/3 My urban-jungle pulse slowed to half its rate as I entered this cool, pillowed, otherworldly Korean oasis. < as lemmas |
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