| 词汇 | mumbo-jumbo |
| 释义 | mumbo jumbo noun[ U ] informaluk /ˌmʌm.bəʊ ˈdʒʌm.bəʊ/ us /ˌmʌm.boʊ ˈdʒʌm.boʊ/ words or activities that seem complicated or mysterious but have no real meaning: 晦涩难懂的话；无意义的活动；繁文缛节 You don't believe in horoscopes and all that mumbo jumbo, do you?你不相信占星术和那套鬼话，是吧？ Nonsense a crock (of shit)idiom babble balderdash balls baloney blah blather blither double-talk doublespeak drivel eyewash flapdoodle malarkey moonshine nonsense nonsensical nonsensically prattle rhubarb mumbo jumbo | American Dictionarymumbo jumbo noun[ U ] us/ˌmʌm·boʊ ˈdʒʌm·boʊ/ words or activities that are unnecessarily complicated or mysterious and seem meaningless: Financial information is just mumbo jumbo to me. Examples of mumbo jumbomumbo jumbo This way of describing consciousness is the only true monism that really equates mind with the functioning of physical matter, without recourse to nomological danglers and spiritual mumbojumbo. Thereafter, after a good deal of mumbojumbo and inspection, they are told that a certain device is the one that would help them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that we are getting deeper and deeper into the mire of mumbojumbo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seeks to leave out the mumbojumbo about the terms of the agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seemed to me supreme mumbojumbo, and utter pantomime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us not be distracted by 'mumbojumbo' is what she has said. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This is mumbojumbo: it means everything or nothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What has all that mumbojumbo got to do with real learning? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is vital because many people cannot understand, and are frightened by, the mumbojumbo of official letters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not just a figure, just a lot of mumbojumbo, a few billions here and a few billions there? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is all part of the mumbojumbo. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is wrong of us to continue to encourage, even at the present sotto voce level, this mumbojumbo about home ownership. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does this mean an end of the mumbojumbo about when we are sitting? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that he will bring to the notice of his right honourable friend the fact that not all of us regard this mumbojumbo with pleasure, pride or satisfaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I'd had enough of the mumbojumbo. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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