英语词汇“mumbo-jumbo”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

mumbo-jumbomum‧bo-jum‧bo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountable] informal

WORD ORIGINmumbo-jumbo

Origin:

1700-1800 Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty.
His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.
Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.
Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.

technical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense:

a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo

单词	mumbo-jumbo
释义	mumbo-jumbomum‧bo-jum‧bo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountable] informal Word Origin WORD ORIGINmumbo-jumbo Origin: 1700-1800 Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES legal mumbo-jumbo EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty. His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo. Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay. Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo. You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is. technical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense: a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo
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