behemoth

英 [bɪˈhiːməθ]

美 [bɪˈhiːməθ]

n.  巨头(指规模庞大、实力雄厚的公司或机构)

复数：behemoths　

BNC.42472 / COCA.13240

牛津词典

noun

• 巨头（指规模庞大、实力雄厚的公司或机构）
  a very big and powerful company or organization

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 庞然大物；巨兽
  If you refer to something as abehemoth, you mean that it is extremely large, and often that it is unpleasant, inefficient, or difficult to manage.
  1. The city is a sprawling behemoth with no heart.
     这座城市无计划地向外扩展着，成为一个中心缺失的庞然大物。
  2. ...his behemoth 1,047 page book.
     他厚达1,047页的皇皇巨著

英英释义

noun

• a person of exceptional importance and reputation
  Synonym:colossusgiantheavyweighttitan
• someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  Synonym:giantgoliathmonstercolossus

双语例句

• Perhaps even Kenny's Sea Monkey "underwater" behemoth?
  甚至肯尼的海猴“的水下”庞然大物？
• Shell and BG will be an LNG behemoth.
  壳牌和BG将成为液化天然气行业的巨擘。
• In March, it announced a three-year strategic partnership with the e-commerce behemoth Alibaba.
  今年3月，主办方宣布与电商巨头阿里巴巴签订三年协议，达成战略伙伴关系。
• New Delhi, meanwhile, another emerging market behemoth, has its own reasons for soft-pedalling.
  与此同时，另一个新兴市场巨头&印度也有自己保持低调的理由。
• In a few months, Beijing will boast the world's largest airport terminal, a behemoth designed by Norman Foster, the British architect.
  再过几个月，北京将建成世界上最大的机场航站楼。这个庞然大物是英国建筑师诺曼•福斯特（NormanFoster）设计的。
• Anyone familiar with Atlanta's behemoth Delta hub only need to combine that with the "new shoes" concept to imagine the state of my feet by the time we got to our luggage.
  任何熟悉亚特兰大那巨大无比的机场中心的人，只要把它和“新鞋”这个词联系在一起想，就能想象出在拿到行李之前我的脚有什么感觉了。
• Chomsky's America is a tyrannical behemoth which exploits and terrorizes, forcing its will on its own citizens and the rest of the world.
  乔姆斯基的美国是一个暴虐的庞然大物，剥削、恐怖统治，将其意愿强加给本国国民和全世界。
• In circumstances like these, you might not want to take on such a behemoth refactoring effort.
  对于这类情况，可能不希望进行重大的重构。
• Meaning Bogle has built vanguard into a global behemoth and yet not become fabulously wealthy.
  也就是说，博格尔已把先锋集团打造成了一家全球性的巨型基金公司，但并没有使自己因此变得十分富有。
• Behemoth methods are havens for defects because very few people can effectively parse them.
  冗长的方法是缺陷的避风港，因为很少有人可以有效地分析它们。