核心畫面

Picture somewhere hot and wet where plants grow on top of each other: trees, vines and huge leaves packed so tightly that you do not walk through, you push and cut your way through. You cannot see three steps ahead, and there is no path — everything is fighting for the same light. Most other uses of the word grow out of that feeling of being closed in, crowded, and unable to see the way forward.

可以想成一片又熱又濕的森林:樹、藤、大葉子一層疊一層擠在一起,你不是用走的,是用擠的、用砍的才過得去。往前看三步就被更多收起可以想成一片又熱又濕的森林:樹、藤、大葉子一層疊一層擠在一起,你不是用走的,是用擠的、用砍的才過得去。往前看三步就被葉子擋住,沒有路,每棵植物都在搶同一片陽光。jungle 之後的用法多半是從這個「擠得密不透風、看不清路」的畫面延伸出去的。

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

junglenoun/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

  • 1

    A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.

    • As Tarzan walked down the wild cañon beneath the brilliant African moon, the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy. Again he was Tarzan of the Apes—every sense alert against the chance of surprise by some jungle enemy—yet treading lightly and with head erect, in proud consciousness of his might.
  • 2

    Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.

  • 3

    A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.

    • It’s a jungle out there.
    • 'How do you like this corner of the jungle?' He leant forward. 'Just listen in to the couple behind you. From what I've heard they're straight out of "Nigger Heaven".'
  • 4

    A tangled mess.

    • […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
  • 5

    slangAn area where hobos camp together.

  • 6

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.

    • Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.
    • In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.
  • 7

    slanggolfhobbieslifestyleDense rough.

    • Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots.
  • 8

    vulgarslangA dense mass of pubic hair.

jungleadj/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/

  • 1

    resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

    • She gave her first performance at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, offering festival dances, Moro tribal rituals, primitive jungle rhythms and rice harvest ceremonials.
    • Somewhere further up the valley a bunch of hippies were getting back to nature by loading up on mind altering chemicals and overwhelming their senses with five million decibels of digital bass and jungle beats.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。