jungle

将“jungle”与“jump”结合起来记忆。想象你跳进了一个充满奇怪生物和茂密植被的“jump”，从而形成“jungle”这个充满热带丛林意象的单词。通过这样的联想，可以更容易地记住“jungle”的含义。

jungle 丛林

来自印度语jangal,森林，荒漠，无人居住的土地。现多用于比喻义指水泥丛林，钢铁丛林。

jungle

jungle: [18] Not surprisingly, jungle is a tropical word, but its ancestor denoted quite the opposite of the lush vegetation it now refers to. It comes from Sanskrit jangala, which originally meant ‘dry’, and hence ‘desert’. Its Hindi descendant jangal was used for an ‘area of wasteland’, and hence ‘such an area overgrown with scrub’, and when it was taken over into Anglo-Indian it was gradually extended to an ‘area of thick tangled trees’.

jungle (n.)

1776, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Sanskrit jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass" is first recorded 1849; meaning "place notoriously lawless and violent" is first recorded 1906, from Upton Sinclair's novel (compare asphalt jungle, 1949, William R. Burnett's novel title, made into a film 1950 by John Huston; blackboard jungle, 1954, Evan Hunter's novel title, movie in 1955). Jungle gym was a trademark name, 1923, by Junglegym Inc., Chicago, U.S. Jungle bunny, derogatory for "black person," attested from 1966.

1. "Orchards would take the place of the jungle," he rhapsodized.

“要让这片丛林成为果园，”他无比兴奋地说。

2. If you make aggression pay, this becomes the law of the jungle.

如果你通过侵略谋取利益，这就成了弱肉强食。

3. It held more mystery than even the darkest jungle.

它甚至比最黑暗的丛林还更令人感到神秘。

4. Social security law and procedure remain a jungle of complex rules.

有关社会保障的法律和程序仍旧是个充满错综复杂的规则的危险领域。

5. Domestic chickens are descended from jungle fowl of Southeast Asia.

家鸡是由东南亚原鸡演变而来的。

【jungle, shrub, bush】
这一组词均与树木有关。
jungle: n.热带稠密的雨林或丛林。
shrub: n.有木茎的灌木，灌木丛。
bush: n.矮树丛。

【bushes, jungle, forest, plantation, woods, grove】
这组词都有“林，树林”的意思，其区别是：
bushes: 指灌木丛，矮树林。
jungle: 特指热带的丛林。
forest: 多指树木高大，面积大、人迹罕至的原始森林。
plantation: 指人造林。
woods: 指面积不大的树林或小块的树林。
grove: 通常指面积较小，树木整齐，地面干净的小树林，尤指果林。