asphalt jungle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe. idiomatic
    — The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.

词形变化

词源

From W. R. Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle (1949).
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