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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。