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

jungle

/ˈdʒʌŋɡ(ə)l

noun

1An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics: we set off into the jungle [mass noun]: the lakes are hidden in dense jungle...

Such terrain includes cities, jungles, and dense forests, but it also includes open terrain when it is mountainous or broken, affording the enemy numerous hiding places.
He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle.
Your guide will lead you through miles of old cane lands, tropical forests, and jungles rich with magnificent scenery.

Synonyms

tropical forest, (tropical) rainforest;

wilderness, wilds, the bush

1.1A wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things: the garden was a jungle of bluebells...

The tops of the washing machines are covered by a jungle of well-watered pot plants.
My carpaccio was passable, but far too sparse and hidden beneath a jungle of foliage.
We sit there sometimes, but prefer the front, which is more like a jungle of plants where coffee refills are 10 minutes apart.

1.2A situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness: it’s a jungle out there...

Perhaps, our urban jungle is just as bewildering for the old man and his daughter.
But the European airline industry remains an insane jungle of bizarre and complex rules.
I know it's shameless, but the publishing world is a competitive jungle and, hey, you have to grab what chances you can.

Synonyms

complexity, confusion, complication, mess, chaos;

labyrinth, maze, tangle, snarl, web

2 (also jungle music) [mass noun] A style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s.On your old website, you mentioned that you both grew up listening to hip-hop, reggae and jungle....

‘He's been working on free jazz, hip hop, jungle and house,’ he says.
Furthermore, his contributions to electronica paved the way for genres such as acid house, deep house, jungle, and drum & bass.

Phrases

the law of the jungle

Derivatives

jungled

adjective ...

One of the guests has been scuba diving off that jungled shoreline we passed, and on the bottom he found a ship's canon from around Nelson's time.
Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles - over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs - using high-frequency radio.
They planned a development of high-rise hotels, the jungled hills denuded and flattened for airstrips, a restaurant built over the fragile coral reefs we had explored all week.

jungly

/ˈdʒʌŋɡli

/ adjective (junglier, jungliest) ...

As a consequence, the garden has become somewhat jungly.
If you want to create a jungly otherworld at the bottom of your garden, then you should definitely go green.
The female crooners, the slightly jungly beats, the hip-hop influence, the somewhat pop sensibility; it's all here.

Origin

Late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala 'rough and arid (terrain)'.

This Hindi word has a root in the Sanskrit for ‘rough and arid’, and in Indian use jungle first meant simply ‘rough, uncultivated ground, wasteland’ rather than ‘land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation’. The law of the jungle is from The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In Kipling's book, the law of the jungle is not necessarily selfish: ‘Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky…the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.’ Since the 1920s a concrete jungle has been an unattractive urban area perceived as a harsh, unpleasant environment, where the ‘law of the jungle’ prevails. Blackboard Jungle was the title of the 1954 novel by Evan Hunter about an undisciplined school, filmed the following year.