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。
• 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。
• As I did in Part One, I will continue using the Behemoth Retail Company, a fictional organization for which we're developing a data warehouse via true-to-life scenarios.
  如我在第1部分中所做的，我将继续使用BehemothRetailCompany，一个虚构的组织，通过逼真的场景，我们为其开发数据仓库。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。