jungle

• n. ジャングル、密林；危険地帯
• adj.ジャングル; 野蛮

ヒンディー語のjangal（森、砂漠、無人の土地）から。現在では、コンクリート?ジャングルや鉄鋼ジャングルを指す比喩として使われる。

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.

「この森を果樹園にする」と彼は興奮して言った。

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

侵略を通じて利益を得ようとすれば、弱肉強食になる。

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

最も暗いジャングルよりも神秘的だ。

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

社会保障に関する法律や手続きは依然として複雑なルールに満ちた危険な分野である。

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

鶏は東南アジアの原鶏から進化した。