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

• It ranks ahead of food giant Archer Daniels Midland, pharmaceutical behemoth Bristol Myers Squibb and just behind in ranking of Wal-mart, General Motors and oil magnate, Koch Industries.
  排在食品巨人阿彻丹尼尔斯米德兰和药业巨兽百时美施贵宝的之前，并紧随在沃尔玛、通用汽车和石油巨头科氏工业集团的后面。
• 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。
• 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。
• Every company from a two-man operation to a global corporate behemoth has a strategy for profiting from Chinese growth.
  从二人公司到全球企业巨擘，所有企业都制定了旨在从中国增长中获利的战略。
• It is never easy to slim the Pentagon behemoth.
  为五角大楼这只巨大怪兽瘦身从来都不是件容易的事。
• With even more armor and power than the Mechanized Arachnid, this bipedal behemoth is the ultimate destructive force!
  拥有甚至超过机械蜘蛛的护甲和力量，这种双足的庞然大物才是终极的破坏力！
• 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。
• One of these cards, Cliffrunner Behemoth, has two of these abilities.
  在这些牌之中，奔崖巨兽具有两个上述的异能。
• The deal may spur more competition for Microsoft, but it removes the threat that the government will try to break up the behemoth.
  这笔交易或许会给微软公司带来更多的竞争，但也解除了政府欲拆散这个庞大公司的威胁。