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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• How do you continue to grow a behemoth?
  如何才能让一个庞大的商业帝国实现持续增长呢？
• China may be a behemoth, but it is not a dinosaur.
  中国或许是个庞然大物，但它不是一只恐龙。
• 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。
• 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。
• That's the sound of a male orcin online roleplaying behemoth World of Warcraft.
  这是风靡的角色扮演网游魔兽世界中一个男兽人发出的声音。
• 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。