网络释义英英释义
mumbo jumbo [ 'mʌmbəu'dʒʌmbəu ]
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n.
- language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand
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a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses
同义词： hugger-mugger
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
mumbo jumbo /ˈmʌmbəʊ/ (also mumbo-jumbo)
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N-UNCOUNT If you describe ideas or words, especially religious or technical ones, as mumbo jumbo, you mean that they are nonsense. (尤指宗教信仰或技术方面)莫名其妙的话; 胡言乱语 [非正式]
例：It's all full of psychoanalytic mumbo-jumbo.
这里面全是精神分析的一派胡言。
双语例句权威例句
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When he's dressed he goes to the cupboard, kneels before a little idol on the third shelf, and repeats the mumbo jumbo.
穿好衣服后他便走到碗橱前，跪在摆在第三层上的一个小神像前，一遍遍背诵那些别人听不懂的祷告词。
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As a corporate associate in charge of quarterbacking transactions, I dealt with the various legal specialists and had to learn their mumbo jumbo.
作为一个业务后续支持的合伙人，我经常要跟各种各样的法律专业人士打交道，总要学习他们的“胡言乱语”。
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There's a lot of mumbo-jumbo about these exercises helping to restore our body's "spinning vortexes", but practicing yoga every day for 15 minutes can't do any harm.
虽然有关此运动能够帮助我们恢复人体“旋转涡流”的说法多含糊其辞、让人不明所以，但每天做15分钟瑜伽，对健康是不会有什么坏处的。
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