jumbo的意思

jumbo

英式音标['dʒʌmbo]
美式英标['dʒʌmbəʊ]

基本解释

adj. 巨大的；特大的

n. 庞然大物；巨型喷气式飞机；体大而笨拙的人或物

jumbo 巨型的，大型客机

来自Jumbo,19世纪末伦敦动物园一头大象的名字，可能来自西非某语言。由于该大象异常巨大且如此知名，因此引申词义巨大的，巨型的，并用于指大型客机，特别是波音747.

jumbo (adj.): "very large, unusually large for its type," 1882, a reference to Jumbo, name of the London Zoo's huge elephant (acquired from France, said to have been captured as a baby in Abyssinia in 1861), sold February 1882 to U.S. circus showman P.T. Barnum amid great excitement in America and great outcry in England, both fanned by Barnum. The name is perhaps from slang jumbo "clumsy, unwieldy fellow" (1823), which itself is possibly from a word for "elephant" in a West African language (compare Kongo nzamba).
"I tell you conscientiously that no idea of the immensity of the animal can be formed. It is a fact that he is simply beyond comparison. The largest elephants I ever saw are mere dwarfs by the side of Jumbo." [P.T. Barnum, interview, "Philadelphia Press," April 22, 1882]
As a product size, by 1886 (cigars). Jumbo jet attested by 1964.

3. Jumbo jets somehow lack the glamour of the transatlantic liner.: 大型喷气式飞机不像橫渡大西洋的客轮那么引人注目.

5. Though Jummy agreed to go at once, Jumbo refused to move.: 虽然Jimmy答应马上走开, 可是Jumbo却不愿意动.