| 单词 | concrete jungle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconcrete jungle a. A wild, tangled mass. Also, a place of bewildering complexity or confusion; a place where the ‘law of the jungle’ prevails; a scene of ruthless competition, struggle, or exploitation; esp. with qualification, as blackboard jungle (see blackboard n. Compounds 2) in schools, asphalt jungle, concrete jungle in cities. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a scene or place of confusion Troy-banea1520 Troy-towna1520 whirlpool?1529 Babel1537 whirlwind1714 jungle1850 morass1867 Troy-fair1870 three-ring circus1898 monkey house1910 madhouse1917 amateur night1937 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > tangled mass matting?1615 wreath1648 scurry1839 jungle1850 fog1869 tangle-twine1878 tardle1898 snaggle1904 society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > law of the jungle > place where it prevails jungle1920 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > fierce or ruthless > scene of jungle1920 feeding frenzy1972 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 1 What a world-wide jungle of redtape. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvii. 433 We could see the perfect jungle of sea-weed that was growing under us. 1879 Academy 10 May 412/2 In that tangled jungle of disconnected precedents [Digest of Justinian]. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xxi. 493 Out of the luxuriant jungle of information that followed I gathered that no man's soul dallies below long. 1906 U. Sinclair (title) The Jungle. 1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 83 After the newly arrived Delegate from the Asphalt Jungles had read a Telegram..he..sauntered back to the Bureau of Information. 1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. vi. 150 The jungle itself was part of the order, since the demimondaine was taken as much for granted as the femme du monde. 1949 W. R. Burnett (title) The asphalt jungle. 1954 E. Hunter (title) Blackboard jungle. 1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) viii. 70 Their front page..shouted ‘The Police Jungle—What Goes On In Our Precincts.’ 1958 Economist 29 Nov. 784/1 This is a variation, andante moderato, on the theme of the blackboard jungle. Mr Townsend describes the teacher's end of the stick—now used more and more sparingly—in the new system of secondary modern education. 1969 D. Morris Human Zoo 8 The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. 1971 Sunday Times 30 May 31/5 Namier..fitted especially ill in the academic jungle. 1971 Times 17 July 5/2 New York seemed to me infernal... By night the streets become concrete jungles, their occupants hysteric, terrified of predators. 1972 Guardian 14 Feb. 10/5 The Minister lit up some lurid corners of the taxation jungle. 1974 Black World Jan. 38 The Waikiki jungle is kind of a—you might call it a ghetto surrounded by high-rise buildings in Waikiki. < as lemmas |
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