mumbo jumbo
mumbo jumbo 英 ['mʌmbəu'dʒʌmbəu] 美
phrase. 莫名其妙的话；无意义的活动；怪诞的偶像；巫术
名词复数:mumbo jumbos
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- phrase. 莫名其妙的话；无意义的活动；怪诞的偶像；巫术
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1. OK — enough about the background and technical mumbo jumbo of the classification trees.
好了，对于分类树的背景和技术方面的介绍已经够多了。
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2. 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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3. All the mumbo jumbo about stabilizing"debt-to-GDP" and ignoring interest payments are examples ofbudget-speak, intended to convince people that "something is being done"when little, or nothing, is.
因为所有关于稳定“负债占GDP比重”以及忽略利息支付的胡言乱语都是预算发言的典型例子，旨在使人们信服政府已经采取了一些行动，实际上根本没有。
- mumbo jumbo (n.) 1738, name of an idol supposedly worshipped by certain tribes in Africa; said to be a corruption of words in Mandingo (one reconstructed version is Mama Dyumbo), but no likely source has been found in the languages of the Niger region, to which the original accounts relate. Meaning "big, empty talk" is attested from 1896.
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