单词 | law of the jungle |
释义 | > as lemmaslaw of the jungle d. law of the jungle: the code of survival in jungle life, now usually with reference to the superiority of brute force or self-interest in the struggle for survival. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > law of the jungle law of the jungle1894 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] tyrantry1340 tyranny1475 licentiousness1553 lawlessness1591 exorbitance1611 exorbitancy1619 anarchism1642 outlawry1836 outlawry1869 jungle law1894 law of the jungle1894 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > jungle law jungle law1894 law of the jungle1927 1894 R. Kipling in To-day 31 Mar. 225/1 Baloo was teaching him the Law of the Jungle... Young wolves will only learn as much of the Law of the Jungle as applies to their own pack and tribe. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 34 A man's cub..must learn all the Law of the Jungle. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 23 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. 1927 C. A. Beard & M. R. Beard Rise Amer. Civilization I. ix. 403 So the law of the jungle prevailed; and in the frightful contest that followed, the rights of neutrals were as chaff before a hurricane. 1950 A. Bryant Age of Elegance x. 329 In the manufacturing districts..the old framework of society..broke down completely. Here only the law of the jungle held. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 107/2 Mr. Queeny derives his ‘law of the jungle’ versus ‘crusading idealist’ from this later nineteenth-century phase of the older split. 1969 New Yorker 6 Sept. 33 (caption) May I remind you that here law and order means the law of the jungle. 1974 Times 4 Mar. 7/4 The Duke said that a purely materialistic society inevitably succumbed to the law of the jungle and political dictatorship. < as lemmas |
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