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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)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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
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Like wisps of smoke, memories of his youth in the concrete jungle drifted through his mind. 

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concrete jungle
Harlow, unlike many other new towns, is not a concretejungle.
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Smith's name is usually spoken in negative terms regarding the destruction of historic and aesthetically pleasing buildings which were replaced with a concretejungle.
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If we are not careful we shall become a concretejungle, with cattle standing on concrete, eating imported food.
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We all know of whole areas of towns where old houses have been replaced by a concretejungle, with all the attendant social problems.
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We cannot replace agricultural ground, but we can replace this concretejungle.
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It is now covered by a concretejungle, my own house included.
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Those cities have natural amenities and resources, whereas urban areas—massive areas of concretejungle—have very little or nothing at all.
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I genuinely hope that she is misrepresenting him, and that a concretejungle is not his vision of the future.
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That is the kind of growth we are having in the south-west, and the concretejungle is eating into the countryside.
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Much of the land which will be taken and turned into concretejungle will be good farming land.
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A concretejungle was developed, with so-called slums being replaced by far worse ones, instead of dwellings being systematically restored.
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It represents a breath of fresh air amidst the concretejungle of anonymous urban life and an opportunity to out price the supermarkets.
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Large areas of the country are covered in what might be called a reinforced concretejungle.
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We do not want it to be turned into a concretejungle.
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They are now moving out of the cardboard cities and into the concretejungle because winter is coming.
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