单词 | mumbo-jumbo |
释义 | mumbo-jumbomum·bo-jum·bo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountableU] informal UNTRUEtechnical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense 晦涩难懂的文字 a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo 一大堆晦涩难懂的法律术语 Examples from the Corpus mumbo-jumbo• You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.• legal mumbo-jumbo• Meaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.• Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.• His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.• All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty. (1700-1800) Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god |
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