mumbo jumbo:一个很有意思的词组

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mumbo jumbo (MUM-bo JUM-bo) noun

   1. Meaningless, unintelligible, complicated, or confusing language.

   2. Complicated language or jargon used in order to confuse.

   3. An object believed to possess supernatural powers.

[Or uncertain origin, probably from Mandingo, a group of Mande languages in
western Africa.]

  "Its (Greenland's) government, in office for only 37 days, fell
   apart because of its civil service chief's penchant for what some
   politicians called witch-doctoring, some mumbo jumbo and others
   `plain exorcism'."
   Andrew Osborn; 'Cleansed' Greenland Cabinet Falls; The Guardian (London,
   UK); Jan 11, 2003.

   "The master of ceremonies recites some ritual words, and then Taylor
   launches into some mumbo-jumbo: `Consider the great luminary of nature,
   which, rising in the east ..."
   Peter Carlson; Fezzes, Sphinxes and Secret Handshakes; The Washington Post;
   Nov 25, 2001.


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