| 单词 | law of the jungle |
| 释义 | law of the jungleSEE SYNONYMS FOR law of the jungle ON THESAURUS.COM nouna system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization. Origin of law of the jungleFirst recorded in 1890–95 Words nearby law of the junglelaw of segregation, law of similars, law of sines, law of superposition, law of supply and demand, law of the jungle, Law of the Medes and the Persians, law of thermodynamics, law of thought, law of universal gravitation, law of war Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for law of the junglelaw of the jungle nouna state of ruthless competition or self-interest Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with law of the junglelaw of the jungle Survival of the strongest, as in The recent price war among airlines was governed by the law of the jungle. This term, alluding to the jungle as a place devoid of ethics where brutality and self-interest reign, was first used by Rudyard Kipling in The Jungle Book (1894). The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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