词汇 | concrete-jungle |
释义 | concrete jungle noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˌkɒŋ.kriːt ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡəl/ us /ˌkɑːn.kriːt ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡəl/ an ugly grey area of a city where people live in closely crowded apartment buildings and there is little space and no trees or grass混凝土丛林,水泥丛林(指高楼林立、无树木花草的拥挤城区) Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities anti-development arrondissement backstreet backstreets borough botanic garden business park Chinatown housing estate industrial estate inner ring marketplace midtown non-residential old town outer ring plaza skid subdivision uptown Like wisps of smoke, memories of his youth in the concrete jungle drifted through his mind. Examples of concrete jungleconcrete jungle Harlow, unlike many other new towns, is not a concretejungle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Smith's name is usually spoken in negative terms regarding the destruction of historic and aesthetically pleasing buildings which were replaced with a concretejungle. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If we are not careful we shall become a concretejungle, with cattle standing on concrete, eating imported food. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know of whole areas of towns where old houses have been replaced by a concretejungle, with all the attendant social problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot replace agricultural ground, but we can replace this concretejungle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is now covered by a concretejungle, my own house included. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those cities have natural amenities and resources, whereas urban areas—massive areas of concretejungle—have very little or nothing at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I genuinely hope that she is misrepresenting him, and that a concretejungle is not his vision of the future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the kind of growth we are having in the south-west, and the concretejungle is eating into the countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of the land which will be taken and turned into concretejungle will be good farming land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A concretejungle was developed, with so-called slums being replaced by far worse ones, instead of dwellings being systematically restored. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It represents a breath of fresh air amidst the concretejungle of anonymous urban life and an opportunity to out price the supermarkets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Large areas of the country are covered in what might be called a reinforced concretejungle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want it to be turned into a concretejungle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are now moving out of the cardboard cities and into the concretejungle because winter is coming. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of concrete jungle 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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