behemoths

英 [bɪˈhiːmɒθs]

美 [bɪˈhiməθs]

n.  巨头(指规模庞大、实力雄厚的公司或机构)
behemoth的复数

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

双语例句

• Gordon gecko, who carried one of the behemoths around in the 1987 movie Wall Street, typified the cell phone user: rich, arrogant, brash.
  在1987年的电影《华尔街》（WallStreet）中，手持这部巨大手机的戈登•杰科代表了手机用户的普遍形象：富有、傲慢、无礼。
• Other Chinese industrial behemoths are set to follow Sany's example.
  其它中国工业巨头准备效仿三一的榜样。
• With Iceland's lack of commercial coffee behemoths, smaller businesses have had a chance to flourish.
  冰岛缺乏咖啡巨头，小企业有机会蓬勃发展。
• Joining the WTO did not stop China from manipulating its currency, from rigging its tender procedures, from funnelling cheap finance to its state-owned behemoths, or from systematically flouting intellectual property rules.
  加入WTO并未阻止中国操纵人民币汇率，未阻止它操纵招标程序，未阻止它将廉价资金输送给大型国企，也未阻止它系统性地藐视知识产权规则。
• Most of the companies listing in Shenzhen are small and medium-sized groups owned by private entrepreneurs, as opposed to the state-owned behemoths that typically gravitate to Shanghai.
  在深圳上市的公司，大多数都是为私人企业主所有的中小型企业；大型国有集团一般会选择去上海上市。
• So these corrupt and inefficient behemoths continue to gobble up and then squander a good share of the foreign investment and export earnings that come into the country.
  于是这些腐败的、低效的巨兽仍然狼吞虎咽，将境外投资以及出口收益中的优质部分纳入囊中。
• Back then the oil industry reacted by unveiling an unprecedented string of megadeals, which created the behemoths that dominate the market today.
  当时的石油工业做出反应，发起空前的一连串巨额交易，造就了当今主导市场的几个庞然大物。
• Rather than state-owned behemoths, the protagonists are smaller, often indirectly owned by local governments through financing vehicles.
  充当主角的不是大型国企，而是一些中小型企业，往往由地方政府通过融资工具间接控制。
• The emergence of bigger and even more complex financial behemoths all too big to fail is a harbinger of crises to come.
  更大、甚至更为复杂的金融“巨兽”的出现都因太大而不会破产是危机将要来临的预兆。
• Tatum says growth companies that cross that no man's land to become$ 1bn-a-year sales behemoths do so with a mixture of entrepreneurial vision and sound management.
  泰特姆表示，要想跨过无人区、成为年销售额达10亿美元的大型企业，成长企业需要结合创业者的远见和健全的管理。