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单词 concrete jungle
释义
  • English

concrete junglenoun [ C usually 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

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities

  • arrondissement
  • backstreets
  • barrio
  • block
  • botanic garden
  • council estate
  • dormitory suburb
  • estate
  • exurb
  • ghetto
  • inner city
  • precinct
  • red-light district
  • slum
  • suburbia
  • the outskirts
  • the wrong/other side of the tracks idiom
  • town
  • trading estate
  • warren

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Examples from literature

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