jungleとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
• 韻: -ʌŋɡəl

名詞

jungle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 jungles)

1. A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
2. (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
3. (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.

   It’s a jungle out there.

   • 1984, Barry Ellem, Doing Time, page 25:

     The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.

   • 2005, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction:

     But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!

4. (figuratively) A tangled mess.
   • 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 156109991:

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

5. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
6. (UK) A migrant camp.
7. (uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
8. (Israel, Texas, US) A desert region.
9. (golf, slang) Dense rough.

   Synonym: tiger country

   • 2006, Rob Blumer, Rex Chaney, Essential golf instruction (page 167)

     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.

10. (vulgar, slang) A hairy vulva.

派生語

派生した語

• → French: jungle
  • → Romanian: junglă
• → German: Dschungel
• → Italian: giungla
• → Japanese: ジャングル (janguru)
• → Korean: 정글 (jeonggeul)
• → Russian: джу́нгли (džúngli)
  • → Armenian: ջունգլի (ǰungli)
  • → Georgian: ჯუნგლი (ǯungli)
• → Spanish: jungla
• → Welsh: jyngl
• → Esperanto: ĝangalo

形容詞

jungle (not comparable)

1. (Of musical beat, rhythm, etc.) resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
   • 1939 January 8, The Tribune, page 13, column 2:

     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.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 9:

     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.

参考

• rainforest

Further reading

• Jungle on Wikipedia.Article on Jungle (forest)
• Jungle (music) on Wikipedia.
• Jungle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)