jungle
n
1 [U, C] area of land, usu in a tropical country, that is covered with a thick growth of trees and tangled plants 叢林地帶(通常指熱帶國(guó)家的)
There's not much jungle 100 miles inland. 向內(nèi)地100英里叢林較少.
The new road was hacked out of the jungle. 這條新路是在叢林地帶辟出的.
the dense jungles of Africa and South America 非洲和南美洲的茂密叢林
[attrib 作定語(yǔ)]
jungle warfare, ie war fought in the jungle, where surprise attacks by small groups aredifficult to anticipate or avoid 叢林戰(zhàn).
2 [sing] confused, disordered and complicated mass of things 混亂而復(fù)雜的大量事物
a jungle of welfare regulations 紛繁的福利條例.
3 [C] place of intense or confusing struggle 發(fā)生激烈或混亂斗爭(zhēng)的地方
the blackboard jungle, ie school(s) where pupils are very disruptive and hostile to theirteachers 學(xué)生不守紀(jì)律并敵視教師的學(xué)校
the concrete jungle, ie a typical modern city with a dense mass ofugly high-rise concrete buildings and in which life is bewildering and sometimes violent 高樓林立、 烏煙瘴氣、 時(shí)有暴力事件的現(xiàn)代城市.
4 (idm 習(xí)語(yǔ)) the law of the jungle => law.