Definition of jungle in English:

jungle

noun ˈdʒʌŋɡ(ə)lˈdʒəŋɡəl

1An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.
（尤指热带的）丛林地带
we set off into the jungle
我们出发进入丛林地带。
mass noun the lakes are hidden in dense jungle
湖泊隐藏在浓密的丛林中。
Example sentencesExamples
- He had been traveling the dense jungles for what seemed weeks, months even.
- The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation.
- Your guide will lead you through miles of old cane lands, tropical forests, and jungles rich with magnificent scenery.
- Such terrain includes cities, jungles, and dense forests, but it also includes open terrain when it is mountainous or broken, affording the enemy numerous hiding places.
- They would travel from farm to farm, surviving for days in the jungle by eating crops and fishing in streams.
- For generations its farmers relied on the surrounding jungle for wood, grazing, fruit, herbs and building materials.
- He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle.
- This species, which lives in the wild in the jungles of Central Africa, is classified as endangered, under growing threat from the roaring trade in bush meat, coupled with the loss of their forest habitat.
- He followed the clearing cautiously, staying in the dense jungle surrounding it.
- Reporters no longer need to lug around bulky suitcases to carry their laptops and heavy satellite discs in to transmit news stories from remote places, dense jungles or mountain tops.
- Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view.
- Later series saw the women marched through hostile jungle to a second camp.
- By the late 1990s, about four-fifths of the population made their living doing subsistence agriculture in the jungles and highland forests.
- We walked though the dense foliage of the jungle.
- Both Ecuador and Brazil have stepped up military operations in the dense Amazonian jungles where they share borders with Colombia.
- The farmers keep busy in their vast fields, whose crops are of a healthy golden-brown, while the creatures in the wild hunt and play in the shade of the tropical forests and the damp jungles.
- These people live there, they understand the jungle of the Philippines, they know what to do.
- Not named were probably those animals which live exclusively in forest, jungles, mountains, wetlands, deserts, etc.
- Tourism here is still pretty much an adventure, with unspoiled beaches, coral-filled waters and dense tropical jungle inland.
- Even so, every walk in a jungle where wild elephants, rhinos, buffaloes or tigers roam, is a tense experience, even if you do have an armed forest guard along with you.
Synonyms
tropical forest, (tropical) rainforest
wilderness, wilds, the bush
1. 1.1 A wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things.
  杂乱的野生草木丛；杂乱无章的一堆
  the garden was a jungle of bluebells
  花园里长满了杂乱的野风信子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  From a distance, the island looks like a jungle of dark weeds.
  Dad borrowed the lights from her and rented a jungle of extension cords.
  There was a jungle of ferns and bushes, blanketed with lichen.
  ‘We discovered all these terraces completely overgrown, under a jungle of vines and brambles,’ said Threipland.
  The tops of the washing machines are covered by a jungle of well-watered pot plants.
  The shirt she wore looked so torn that he wondered if she had walked through a jungle of thorns before coming into the disco.
  I was finally able to crawl under the tree, and I soon found myself among a jungle of branches and leaves.
  He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect.
  My carpaccio was passable, but far too sparse and hidden beneath a jungle of foliage.
  But when I realised today that my weed jungle does not constitute a garden to potter in, I turfed them into the bin.
  It's a jungle of images of places found ‘above ground’ at those sites.
  This will keep your garden from looking like a jungle of haphazardly placed plants.
  When he died, police officers had to cut their way through a jungle of junk, just to get his body out.
  A jungle of mechanical debris bridges the gap between the cavernous fore and aft holds.
  She walked through bushes and reached a jungle of trees.
  Surrounding him on all sides, was a jungle of cement and wires.
  Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians.
  It had remained hidden all this time under a jungle of wires.
  We sit there sometimes, but prefer the front, which is more like a jungle of plants where coffee refills are 10 minutes apart.
  It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front.
2. 1.2 A situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness.
  错综复杂的情形（或地方）；激烈而残酷的竞争状态（或场所）
  it's a jungle out there
  那里是一个弱肉强食的世界。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I know it's shameless, but the publishing world is a competitive jungle and, hey, you have to grab what chances you can.
  It's a jungle of three letter acronyms and petroleum by-products.
  They can bring learning alive and help young people through jungles of confusion, over rivers of problems and up mountains of challenge.
  Here's a roadmap through the jungle of competing claims.
  Perhaps, our urban jungle is just as bewildering for the old man and his daughter.
  We have managed to create a jungle of inefficiency, throwing money at administration rather than research.
  But the European airline industry remains an insane jungle of bizarre and complex rules.
  You send your camp's story into a veritable jungle of competing messages that bombard every parent and every child with whom you correspond.
  Synonyms
  complexity, confusion, complication, mess, chaos
  labyrinth, maze, tangle, snarl, web
2mass noun A style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s.
丛林乐（一种融合拉加即兴曲，希普霍普和硬核音乐元素的舞曲，由几乎独有的，极快速的电子鼓声道和较慢的合成低音和声组成，起源于20世纪90年代早期的英国）。比较DRUM AND BASS
Example sentencesExamples
- On your old website, you mentioned that you both grew up listening to hip-hop, reggae and jungle.
- It's got jungle on there, garage, rock, hip hop and my own little ideas.
- Furthermore, his contributions to electronica paved the way for genres such as acid house, deep house, jungle, and drum & bass.
- ‘He's been working on free jazz, hip hop, jungle and house,’ he says.

Phrases

the law of the jungle

The principle that those who are strong and apply ruthless self-interest will be most successful.
丛林法则，弱肉强食的法则
power politics reflected the law of the jungle
Example sentencesExamples
- Otherwise, we simply have the law of the jungle.
- She'd taught him the law of the jungle, after all, and he didn't believe in double standards.
- In other words, a society must have a moral standard by which it is run, or else we enter into the law of the jungle.
- He viewed the world as one where the law of the jungle prevailed and the strong could kill the weak.
- It's easy to write this off as the triumph of greed and the law of the jungle.
- As described by one former CIA lawyer that is ‘the law of the jungle.’
- What is missing from the European mindset is the reality that outside Europe, there exists the law of the jungle.
- After all, they are the ones who have forgotten that we no longer live by the law of the jungle.
- If we don't do this now, we'll allow the law of the jungle to pervade for the next million years.
- His colleagues, who recounted the story, called his decision prudent in a city ruled by the law of the jungle for more than a year.
Synonyms
the survival of the fittest, each man for himself, every man for himself, dog-eat-dog

Derivatives

jungled

adjective

Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles - over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs - using high-frequency radio.
Example sentencesExamples
- The jungled mountains also provide excellent hiding places.
- The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands.
- They planned a development of high-rise hotels, the jungled hills denuded and flattened for airstrips, a restaurant built over the fragile coral reefs we had explored all week.
- One of the guests has been scuba diving off that jungled shoreline we passed, and on the bottom he found a ship's canon from around Nelson's time.

jungly

adjectivejungliest, junglier ˈdʒʌŋɡliˈdʒəŋɡli

1Characterized by jungle or resembling a jungle.
a wet, jungly island
Example sentencesExamples
- a jungly garden
- As a consequence, the garden has become somewhat jungly.
- The female crooners, the slightly jungly beats, the hip-hop influence, the somewhat pop sensibility; it's all here.
- If you want to create a jungly otherworld at the bottom of your garden, then you should definitely go green.
- jungly drum 'n' bass sounds
2Characteristic of jungle dance music.

Origin

Late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala 'rough and arid (terrain)'.

This Hindi word has a root in the Sanskrit for ‘rough and arid’, and in Indian use jungle first meant simply ‘rough, uncultivated ground, wasteland’ rather than ‘land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation’. The law of the jungle is from The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In Kipling's book, the law of the jungle is not necessarily selfish: ‘Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky…the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.’ Since the 1920s a concrete jungle has been an unattractive urban area perceived as a harsh, unpleasant environment, where the ‘law of the jungle’ prevails. Blackboard Jungle was the title of the 1954 novel by Evan Hunter about an undisciplined school, filmed the following year.

Rhymes

bungle, fungal

Definition of jungle in US English:

jungle

nounˈdʒəŋɡəlˈjəNGɡəl

1An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.
（尤指热带的）丛林地带
we set off into the jungle
我们出发进入丛林地带。
the lakes are hidden in dense jungle
湖泊隐藏在浓密的丛林中。
Example sentencesExamples
- He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle.
- This species, which lives in the wild in the jungles of Central Africa, is classified as endangered, under growing threat from the roaring trade in bush meat, coupled with the loss of their forest habitat.
- Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view.
- He followed the clearing cautiously, staying in the dense jungle surrounding it.
- These people live there, they understand the jungle of the Philippines, they know what to do.
- For generations its farmers relied on the surrounding jungle for wood, grazing, fruit, herbs and building materials.
- Such terrain includes cities, jungles, and dense forests, but it also includes open terrain when it is mountainous or broken, affording the enemy numerous hiding places.
- Later series saw the women marched through hostile jungle to a second camp.
- Reporters no longer need to lug around bulky suitcases to carry their laptops and heavy satellite discs in to transmit news stories from remote places, dense jungles or mountain tops.
- Even so, every walk in a jungle where wild elephants, rhinos, buffaloes or tigers roam, is a tense experience, even if you do have an armed forest guard along with you.
- Tourism here is still pretty much an adventure, with unspoiled beaches, coral-filled waters and dense tropical jungle inland.
- They would travel from farm to farm, surviving for days in the jungle by eating crops and fishing in streams.
- The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation.
- Your guide will lead you through miles of old cane lands, tropical forests, and jungles rich with magnificent scenery.
- He had been traveling the dense jungles for what seemed weeks, months even.
- By the late 1990s, about four-fifths of the population made their living doing subsistence agriculture in the jungles and highland forests.
- The farmers keep busy in their vast fields, whose crops are of a healthy golden-brown, while the creatures in the wild hunt and play in the shade of the tropical forests and the damp jungles.
- Not named were probably those animals which live exclusively in forest, jungles, mountains, wetlands, deserts, etc.
- Both Ecuador and Brazil have stepped up military operations in the dense Amazonian jungles where they share borders with Colombia.
- We walked though the dense foliage of the jungle.
Synonyms
tropical forest, rainforest, tropical rainforest
1. 1.1 A wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things.
  杂乱的野生草木丛；杂乱无章的一堆
  the garden was a jungle of bluebells
  花园里长满了杂乱的野风信子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A jungle of mechanical debris bridges the gap between the cavernous fore and aft holds.
  When he died, police officers had to cut their way through a jungle of junk, just to get his body out.
  She walked through bushes and reached a jungle of trees.
  It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front.
  ‘We discovered all these terraces completely overgrown, under a jungle of vines and brambles,’ said Threipland.
  From a distance, the island looks like a jungle of dark weeds.
  I was finally able to crawl under the tree, and I soon found myself among a jungle of branches and leaves.
  It's a jungle of images of places found ‘above ground’ at those sites.
  Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians.
  My carpaccio was passable, but far too sparse and hidden beneath a jungle of foliage.
  The shirt she wore looked so torn that he wondered if she had walked through a jungle of thorns before coming into the disco.
  Surrounding him on all sides, was a jungle of cement and wires.
  There was a jungle of ferns and bushes, blanketed with lichen.
  Dad borrowed the lights from her and rented a jungle of extension cords.
  But when I realised today that my weed jungle does not constitute a garden to potter in, I turfed them into the bin.
  It had remained hidden all this time under a jungle of wires.
  We sit there sometimes, but prefer the front, which is more like a jungle of plants where coffee refills are 10 minutes apart.
  He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect.
  The tops of the washing machines are covered by a jungle of well-watered pot plants.
  This will keep your garden from looking like a jungle of haphazardly placed plants.
2. 1.2 A situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness.
  错综复杂的情形（或地方）；激烈而残酷的竞争状态（或场所）
  it's a jungle out there
  那里是一个弱肉强食的世界。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I know it's shameless, but the publishing world is a competitive jungle and, hey, you have to grab what chances you can.
  Perhaps, our urban jungle is just as bewildering for the old man and his daughter.
  But the European airline industry remains an insane jungle of bizarre and complex rules.
  Here's a roadmap through the jungle of competing claims.
  We have managed to create a jungle of inefficiency, throwing money at administration rather than research.
  They can bring learning alive and help young people through jungles of confusion, over rivers of problems and up mountains of challenge.
  It's a jungle of three letter acronyms and petroleum by-products.
  You send your camp's story into a veritable jungle of competing messages that bombard every parent and every child with whom you correspond.
  Synonyms
  complexity, confusion, complication, mess, chaos
3. 1.3US informal A hobo camp.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He thinks wistfully of how he used to hop freights, sleep in culverts, drink white lightning in hobo jungles, take a sash-weight to his competitors, go through the pockets of the recently dead.
  I went to the nearest hobo jungle and smelled something cooking.
2A style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting almost exclusively of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s.
丛林乐（一种融合拉加即兴曲，希普霍普和硬核音乐元素的舞曲，由几乎独有的，极快速的电子鼓声道和较慢的合成低音和声组成，起源于20世纪90年代早期的英国）。比较DRUM AND BASS
Compare with drum and bass
Example sentencesExamples
- It's got jungle on there, garage, rock, hip hop and my own little ideas.
- ‘He's been working on free jazz, hip hop, jungle and house,’ he says.
- On your old website, you mentioned that you both grew up listening to hip-hop, reggae and jungle.
- Furthermore, his contributions to electronica paved the way for genres such as acid house, deep house, jungle, and drum & bass.

Phrases

the law of the jungle

The principle that those who are strong and apply ruthless self-interest will be most successful.
丛林法则，弱肉强食的法则
Example sentencesExamples
- As described by one former CIA lawyer that is ‘the law of the jungle.’
- His colleagues, who recounted the story, called his decision prudent in a city ruled by the law of the jungle for more than a year.
- She'd taught him the law of the jungle, after all, and he didn't believe in double standards.
- After all, they are the ones who have forgotten that we no longer live by the law of the jungle.
- Otherwise, we simply have the law of the jungle.
- It's easy to write this off as the triumph of greed and the law of the jungle.
- He viewed the world as one where the law of the jungle prevailed and the strong could kill the weak.
- In other words, a society must have a moral standard by which it is run, or else we enter into the law of the jungle.
- What is missing from the European mindset is the reality that outside Europe, there exists the law of the jungle.
- If we don't do this now, we'll allow the law of the jungle to pervade for the next million years.
Synonyms
the survival of the fittest, each man for himself, every man for himself, dog-eat-dog

Origin

Late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’.

词汇	jungle
释义	Definition of jungle in English: jungle noun ˈdʒʌŋɡ(ə)lˈdʒəŋɡəl 1An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics. （尤指热带的）丛林地带 we set off into the jungle 我们出发进入丛林地带。 mass noun the lakes are hidden in dense jungle 湖泊隐藏在浓密的丛林中。 Example sentencesExamples He had been traveling the dense jungles for what seemed weeks, months even. The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation. Your guide will lead you through miles of old cane lands, tropical forests, and jungles rich with magnificent scenery. Such terrain includes cities, jungles, and dense forests, but it also includes open terrain when it is mountainous or broken, affording the enemy numerous hiding places. They would travel from farm to farm, surviving for days in the jungle by eating crops and fishing in streams. For generations its farmers relied on the surrounding jungle for wood, grazing, fruit, herbs and building materials. He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle. This species, which lives in the wild in the jungles of Central Africa, is classified as endangered, under growing threat from the roaring trade in bush meat, coupled with the loss of their forest habitat. He followed the clearing cautiously, staying in the dense jungle surrounding it. Reporters no longer need to lug around bulky suitcases to carry their laptops and heavy satellite discs in to transmit news stories from remote places, dense jungles or mountain tops. Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view. Later series saw the women marched through hostile jungle to a second camp. By the late 1990s, about four-fifths of the population made their living doing subsistence agriculture in the jungles and highland forests. We walked though the dense foliage of the jungle. Both Ecuador and Brazil have stepped up military operations in the dense Amazonian jungles where they share borders with Colombia. The farmers keep busy in their vast fields, whose crops are of a healthy golden-brown, while the creatures in the wild hunt and play in the shade of the tropical forests and the damp jungles. These people live there, they understand the jungle of the Philippines, they know what to do. Not named were probably those animals which live exclusively in forest, jungles, mountains, wetlands, deserts, etc. Tourism here is still pretty much an adventure, with unspoiled beaches, coral-filled waters and dense tropical jungle inland. Even so, every walk in a jungle where wild elephants, rhinos, buffaloes or tigers roam, is a tense experience, even if you do have an armed forest guard along with you. Synonyms tropical forest, (tropical) rainforest wilderness, wilds, the bush 1.1 A wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things. 杂乱的野生草木丛；杂乱无章的一堆 the garden was a jungle of bluebells 花园里长满了杂乱的野风信子。 Example sentencesExamples From a distance, the island looks like a jungle of dark weeds. Dad borrowed the lights from her and rented a jungle of extension cords. There was a jungle of ferns and bushes, blanketed with lichen. ‘We discovered all these terraces completely overgrown, under a jungle of vines and brambles,’ said Threipland. The tops of the washing machines are covered by a jungle of well-watered pot plants. The shirt she wore looked so torn that he wondered if she had walked through a jungle of thorns before coming into the disco. I was finally able to crawl under the tree, and I soon found myself among a jungle of branches and leaves. He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect. My carpaccio was passable, but far too sparse and hidden beneath a jungle of foliage. But when I realised today that my weed jungle does not constitute a garden to potter in, I turfed them into the bin. It's a jungle of images of places found ‘above ground’ at those sites. This will keep your garden from looking like a jungle of haphazardly placed plants. When he died, police officers had to cut their way through a jungle of junk, just to get his body out. A jungle of mechanical debris bridges the gap between the cavernous fore and aft holds. She walked through bushes and reached a jungle of trees. Surrounding him on all sides, was a jungle of cement and wires. Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians. It had remained hidden all this time under a jungle of wires. We sit there sometimes, but prefer the front, which is more like a jungle of plants where coffee refills are 10 minutes apart. It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front. 1.2 A situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness. 错综复杂的情形（或地方）；激烈而残酷的竞争状态（或场所） it's a jungle out there 那里是一个弱肉强食的世界。 Example sentencesExamples I know it's shameless, but the publishing world is a competitive jungle and, hey, you have to grab what chances you can. It's a jungle of three letter acronyms and petroleum by-products. They can bring learning alive and help young people through jungles of confusion, over rivers of problems and up mountains of challenge. Here's a roadmap through the jungle of competing claims. Perhaps, our urban jungle is just as bewildering for the old man and his daughter. We have managed to create a jungle of inefficiency, throwing money at administration rather than research. But the European airline industry remains an insane jungle of bizarre and complex rules. You send your camp's story into a veritable jungle of competing messages that bombard every parent and every child with whom you correspond. Synonyms complexity, confusion, complication, mess, chaos labyrinth, maze, tangle, snarl, web 2mass noun A style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s. 丛林乐（一种融合拉加即兴曲，希普霍普和硬核音乐元素的舞曲，由几乎独有的，极快速的电子鼓声道和较慢的合成低音和声组成，起源于20世纪90年代早期的英国）。比较DRUM AND BASS Example sentencesExamples On your old website, you mentioned that you both grew up listening to hip-hop, reggae and jungle. It's got jungle on there, garage, rock, hip hop and my own little ideas. Furthermore, his contributions to electronica paved the way for genres such as acid house, deep house, jungle, and drum & bass. ‘He's been working on free jazz, hip hop, jungle and house,’ he says. Phrases the law of the jungle The principle that those who are strong and apply ruthless self-interest will be most successful. 丛林法则，弱肉强食的法则 power politics reflected the law of the jungle Example sentencesExamples Otherwise, we simply have the law of the jungle. She'd taught him the law of the jungle, after all, and he didn't believe in double standards. In other words, a society must have a moral standard by which it is run, or else we enter into the law of the jungle. He viewed the world as one where the law of the jungle prevailed and the strong could kill the weak. It's easy to write this off as the triumph of greed and the law of the jungle. As described by one former CIA lawyer that is ‘the law of the jungle.’ What is missing from the European mindset is the reality that outside Europe, there exists the law of the jungle. After all, they are the ones who have forgotten that we no longer live by the law of the jungle. If we don't do this now, we'll allow the law of the jungle to pervade for the next million years. His colleagues, who recounted the story, called his decision prudent in a city ruled by the law of the jungle for more than a year. Synonyms the survival of the fittest, each man for himself, every man for himself, dog-eat-dog Derivatives jungled adjective Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles - over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs - using high-frequency radio. Example sentencesExamples The jungled mountains also provide excellent hiding places. The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands. They planned a development of high-rise hotels, the jungled hills denuded and flattened for airstrips, a restaurant built over the fragile coral reefs we had explored all week. One of the guests has been scuba diving off that jungled shoreline we passed, and on the bottom he found a ship's canon from around Nelson's time. jungly adjectivejungliest, junglier ˈdʒʌŋɡliˈdʒəŋɡli 1Characterized by jungle or resembling a jungle. a wet, jungly island Example sentencesExamples a jungly garden As a consequence, the garden has become somewhat jungly. The female crooners, the slightly jungly beats, the hip-hop influence, the somewhat pop sensibility; it's all here. If you want to create a jungly otherworld at the bottom of your garden, then you should definitely go green. jungly drum 'n' bass sounds 2Characteristic of jungle dance music. Origin Late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala 'rough and arid (terrain)'. This Hindi word has a root in the Sanskrit for ‘rough and arid’, and in Indian use jungle first meant simply ‘rough, uncultivated ground, wasteland’ rather than ‘land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation’. The law of the jungle is from The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In Kipling's book, the law of the jungle is not necessarily selfish: ‘Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky…the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.’ Since the 1920s a concrete jungle has been an unattractive urban area perceived as a harsh, unpleasant environment, where the ‘law of the jungle’ prevails. Blackboard Jungle was the title of the 1954 novel by Evan Hunter about an undisciplined school, filmed the following year. Rhymes bungle, fungal noun.1 phr. Definition of jungle in US English: jungle nounˈdʒəŋɡəlˈjəNGɡəl 1An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics. （尤指热带的）丛林地带 we set off into the jungle 我们出发进入丛林地带。 the lakes are hidden in dense jungle 湖泊隐藏在浓密的丛林中。 Example sentencesExamples He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle. This species, which lives in the wild in the jungles of Central Africa, is classified as endangered, under growing threat from the roaring trade in bush meat, coupled with the loss of their forest habitat. Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view. He followed the clearing cautiously, staying in the dense jungle surrounding it. These people live there, they understand the jungle of the Philippines, they know what to do. For generations its farmers relied on the surrounding jungle for wood, grazing, fruit, herbs and building materials. Such terrain includes cities, jungles, and dense forests, but it also includes open terrain when it is mountainous or broken, affording the enemy numerous hiding places. Later series saw the women marched through hostile jungle to a second camp. Reporters no longer need to lug around bulky suitcases to carry their laptops and heavy satellite discs in to transmit news stories from remote places, dense jungles or mountain tops. Even so, every walk in a jungle where wild elephants, rhinos, buffaloes or tigers roam, is a tense experience, even if you do have an armed forest guard along with you. Tourism here is still pretty much an adventure, with unspoiled beaches, coral-filled waters and dense tropical jungle inland. They would travel from farm to farm, surviving for days in the jungle by eating crops and fishing in streams. The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation. Your guide will lead you through miles of old cane lands, tropical forests, and jungles rich with magnificent scenery. He had been traveling the dense jungles for what seemed weeks, months even. By the late 1990s, about four-fifths of the population made their living doing subsistence agriculture in the jungles and highland forests. The farmers keep busy in their vast fields, whose crops are of a healthy golden-brown, while the creatures in the wild hunt and play in the shade of the tropical forests and the damp jungles. Not named were probably those animals which live exclusively in forest, jungles, mountains, wetlands, deserts, etc. Both Ecuador and Brazil have stepped up military operations in the dense Amazonian jungles where they share borders with Colombia. We walked though the dense foliage of the jungle. Synonyms tropical forest, rainforest, tropical rainforest 1.1 A wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things. 杂乱的野生草木丛；杂乱无章的一堆 the garden was a jungle of bluebells 花园里长满了杂乱的野风信子。 Example sentencesExamples A jungle of mechanical debris bridges the gap between the cavernous fore and aft holds. When he died, police officers had to cut their way through a jungle of junk, just to get his body out. She walked through bushes and reached a jungle of trees. It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front. ‘We discovered all these terraces completely overgrown, under a jungle of vines and brambles,’ said Threipland. From a distance, the island looks like a jungle of dark weeds. I was finally able to crawl under the tree, and I soon found myself among a jungle of branches and leaves. It's a jungle of images of places found ‘above ground’ at those sites. Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians. My carpaccio was passable, but far too sparse and hidden beneath a jungle of foliage. The shirt she wore looked so torn that he wondered if she had walked through a jungle of thorns before coming into the disco. Surrounding him on all sides, was a jungle of cement and wires. There was a jungle of ferns and bushes, blanketed with lichen. Dad borrowed the lights from her and rented a jungle of extension cords. But when I realised today that my weed jungle does not constitute a garden to potter in, I turfed them into the bin. It had remained hidden all this time under a jungle of wires. We sit there sometimes, but prefer the front, which is more like a jungle of plants where coffee refills are 10 minutes apart. He says that the group had been working hard to improve the area around the sawmill dam by tackling the jungle of weeds, brambles and nettles that had grown up through years of neglect. The tops of the washing machines are covered by a jungle of well-watered pot plants. This will keep your garden from looking like a jungle of haphazardly placed plants. 1.2 A situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness. 错综复杂的情形（或地方）；激烈而残酷的竞争状态（或场所） it's a jungle out there 那里是一个弱肉强食的世界。 Example sentencesExamples I know it's shameless, but the publishing world is a competitive jungle and, hey, you have to grab what chances you can. Perhaps, our urban jungle is just as bewildering for the old man and his daughter. But the European airline industry remains an insane jungle of bizarre and complex rules. Here's a roadmap through the jungle of competing claims. We have managed to create a jungle of inefficiency, throwing money at administration rather than research. They can bring learning alive and help young people through jungles of confusion, over rivers of problems and up mountains of challenge. It's a jungle of three letter acronyms and petroleum by-products. You send your camp's story into a veritable jungle of competing messages that bombard every parent and every child with whom you correspond. Synonyms complexity, confusion, complication, mess, chaos 1.3US informal A hobo camp. Example sentencesExamples He thinks wistfully of how he used to hop freights, sleep in culverts, drink white lightning in hobo jungles, take a sash-weight to his competitors, go through the pockets of the recently dead. I went to the nearest hobo jungle and smelled something cooking. 2A style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting almost exclusively of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s. 丛林乐（一种融合拉加即兴曲，希普霍普和硬核音乐元素的舞曲，由几乎独有的，极快速的电子鼓声道和较慢的合成低音和声组成，起源于20世纪90年代早期的英国）。比较DRUM AND BASS Compare with drum and bass Example sentencesExamples It's got jungle on there, garage, rock, hip hop and my own little ideas. ‘He's been working on free jazz, hip hop, jungle and house,’ he says. On your old website, you mentioned that you both grew up listening to hip-hop, reggae and jungle. Furthermore, his contributions to electronica paved the way for genres such as acid house, deep house, jungle, and drum & bass. Phrases the law of the jungle The principle that those who are strong and apply ruthless self-interest will be most successful. 丛林法则，弱肉强食的法则 Example sentencesExamples As described by one former CIA lawyer that is ‘the law of the jungle.’ His colleagues, who recounted the story, called his decision prudent in a city ruled by the law of the jungle for more than a year. She'd taught him the law of the jungle, after all, and he didn't believe in double standards. After all, they are the ones who have forgotten that we no longer live by the law of the jungle. Otherwise, we simply have the law of the jungle. It's easy to write this off as the triumph of greed and the law of the jungle. He viewed the world as one where the law of the jungle prevailed and the strong could kill the weak. In other words, a society must have a moral standard by which it is run, or else we enter into the law of the jungle. What is missing from the European mindset is the reality that outside Europe, there exists the law of the jungle. If we don't do this now, we'll allow the law of the jungle to pervade for the next million years. Synonyms the survival of the fittest, each man for himself, every man for himself, dog-eat-dog Origin Late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’. noun.1 phr.
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