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mumbo-jumbo

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mum·bo-jum·bo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountable] informal  UNTRUEtechnical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense 晦涩难懂的文字 a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo 一大堆晦涩难懂的法律术语
Examples from the Corpus
mumbo-jumboYou can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.legal mumbo-jumboMeaningless mumbo-jumbo designed to stall and delay.Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.All of this mumbo-jumbo masks a large vacuum of uncertainty.
Origin mumbo-jumbo (1700-1800) Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god
mum·bo-jum·bo nounChineseSyllable
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mumbo-jumbo
mumbo-jumbo /ˌmʌmbəʊ ˈdʒʌmbəʊ $ -boʊ ˈdʒʌmboʊ/ noun [uncountable] informal
 Date: 1700-1800
 Origin: Mumbo Jumbo name of a supposed African god
technical language that is difficult to understand and seems to have no sense:
    a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo


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