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jungle fever

/juhng-guhl fee-ver/US // ˈdʒʌŋ gəl ˈfi vər //

丛林热,丛林狂热症,丛林狂热,丛林炎

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Pathology. a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
    • : Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a person’s preference for a sexual or romantic relationship that is interracial, especially the preference of a white person for a Black partner.

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Examples

  • But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.

  • The legal jungle must be bulldozed, and replaced by radically simpler framework of goals and principles.

  • It all began, the consensus seems to be, with the red jungle fowl.

  • Over the past week, Sony Pictures Entertainment has received more body blows than Muhammad Ali during the Rumble in the Jungle.

  • Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.

  • Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.

  • Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.

  • When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.

  • If the fever ends by crisis, the crisis is accompanied by a rapid and striking increase.

  • It took me back to Burma and a certain very uncomfortable night that I once passed in the jungle.