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词汇 jungle
释义 jungle
noun
uk /ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡəl/ us /ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡəl/

junglenoun (FOREST)


B1[ C or U ]
a tropical forest in which trees and plants grow very closely together: 热带丛林
The Yanomami people live in the South American jungle.雅诺马密人生活在南美丛林中。
Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.河的两岸是茂密而难以穿行的丛林。
 
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We landed at a tiny airstrip in the middle of the jungle.我们在丛林中的一条狭小的简易跑道上降落。
He spent a year in the jungle, observing how deforestation is affecting local tribes.他在丛林里住了一年,考察滥伐森林对当地部落造成了何种影响。
She gave a thrilling account of her life in the jungle.她把自己在丛林中生活的经历描述得惊险刺激。
A gravel road leads through the jungle and up into the Andes.一条砾石铺成的路穿过丛林,向上进入安第斯山。
The lion is often called the king of the jungle.狮子经常被称为丛林之王。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forestry
afforestation
agroforestry
arborist
carbon sink
clearing
cut down
deforest
lumberjack
old growth
ranger
silvan
the treeline
timber
tropical rainforest
undercut
understorey
unforested
woodcutter
woodsy
woody

junglenoun (UNTIDY PLACE)


[ S ]
an uncontrolled or confusing mass of things: 乱七八糟的一丛,杂乱的一堆
Our garden is a real jungle.我们的花园真是乱七八糟。
a jungle of electronic equipment林林总总的电子设备
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dirt & untidiness
bloodstain
blotch
clutter
contaminant
contamination
crud
fleck
grime
grunge
gunge
gunk
muck
pollutant
polluter
recontamination
scrappiness
scruff
shambles
slime
slob

junglenoun (SITUATION)


[ S ]informal
a situation in which it is difficult to succeed because a lot of people are competing against each other: 弱肉强食的地方,生存竞争激烈残酷之处
You've got to be determined in this life - it's a jungle out there, kid.孩子,你必须意志坚定——生活就像弱肉强食的丛林一样。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competing and contending (non-sporting)
as a dare
be one up on someoneidiom
cat
catchup
challenge someone to something/do something
dare
get one up on someoneidiom
give someone/something a run for their moneyidiom
go in for something
go toe to toeidiom
hyper-competitive
pit
runner
runners and ridersidiom
sharp elbowsidiom
sharp-elbowed
sharpen (something) up
sharpen your elbowsidiom
snap
toe

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Experiencing difficulties

junglenoun (MUSIC)


[ U ]
a type of popular dance music with an extremely fast rhythm and a low range of musical notes丛林音乐(一种节奏极快、曲调低的流行舞曲)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pop, rock & soul
agit-pop
anti-rock
backing dancer
backing singer
backspin
electronica
emo
Europop
floor-filler
frontman
mod
Motown
multi-instrumentalist
New Age music
pop group
Tin Pan Alley
top 40
top ten
trap music
trip-hop

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Types of music

jungle | American Dictionary


jungle
noun
us/ˈdʒʌŋ·ɡəl/
a forest in one of the hottest regions of the earth, where trees and plants grow very close together

Examples of jungle


jungle
The major difference between these two jungles, however, is the presence or absence of beauty.
The natural and the urban jungles dramatized in these two novels have much in common.
The rent-free lands became unproductive for want of manure after yielding a few crops which made it necessary for them to clear fresh jungles.
The belief has grown that somewhere in the urban jungles, there lurk the dangerous classes who will, if not closely surveyed and controlled, challenge the peace of the streets.
They cleared the jungles infested with tigers.
In contrast, the setting of the human jungle is repulsive.
The author transmits his willingness to use his own skill in guiding others through the linguistic jungle.
We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.
Here and there occurred patches of dense jungle, quite impossible to penetrate, whilst there are also fairly large open spaces.
The reason was that the forest animals were the main competitors for the jungle crops.
He also proposed to dispense with the staff who worked these lands, sell the estate cattle, and lease out jungle areas as pasture.
Trading futures and derivatives, it could have been a jungle of aggressive queue jumpers, seeking to trample their fellow traders under foot.
Without a monopolistic government only the law of the jungle would apply.
Their echo and reverb is not accompanied by descriptions of sublime western canyons, tropical beaches or steaming jungles.
There is pollution of the environment and concrete jungles of multi-storey blocks.
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Collocations withjungle


jungle

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dense jungle
Here and there occurred patches of densejungle, quite impossible to penetrate, whilst there are also fairly large open spaces.
jungle cat
Other wild animals found are leopard, sloth bear, wild dog, porcupine, junglecat, fox, striped hyena, gaur, chowsingha and barking deer.
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Wikipedia

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surrounding jungle
It is run by the villagers and is used mainly by the occasional hiker who wishes to explore the surroundingjungle.
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