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

• 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。
• 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。
• Samsung, which began as a small noodle business in 1938, is now a behemoth.
  1938年三星以小型面条企业起家，如今已经成为一个跨行业的巨擘。
• The retail behemoth is regularly the target of unfavorable billboards, newspaper ads and at least one critical documentary.
  零售巨头是定期的目标不利的广告牌，报纸广告和至少一个关键的纪录片。
• The very medium that we hoped would bring us closer to the people has grown into a risk-averse behemoth that is cute to look at but is harder to teach new tricks than the proverbial old dog.
  那非常生熟的我们希望会对人使我们更靠近已经发展成危险-很可爱看但是比较难超过谚语的老狗教新的诡计的不愿意的巨兽。
• 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。
• Perhaps even Kenny's Sea Monkey "underwater" behemoth?
  甚至肯尼的海猴“的水下”庞然大物？
• Behold now the behemoth, which I made as well as you: he eats grass like the ox.
  你且观看河马，我造你也造；吃草与牛一样。
• 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。
• 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。