英语词汇“mumbo-jumbo”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mumbo-jumbomum‧bo-jum‧bo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountable] informal

WORD ORIGINmumbo-jumbo

Origin:

1700-1800 Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty.
His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.
Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.
Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.

technical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense:

a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo

单词	mumbo-jumbo
释义	mumbo-jumbomum‧bo-jum‧bo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountable] informal Word Origin WORD ORIGINmumbo-jumbo Origin: 1700-1800 Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES legal mumbo-jumbo EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty. His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo. Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay. Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo. You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is. technical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense: a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo
随便看	inverted comma inverted snobbery invest investigate investigation investigative investigator investigatory investiture investment investment bank investment banker investment banking investment club investor inveterate invidious invigilate invigilator invigorate invigorating invincibility invincible inviolability inviolable