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

• 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。
• One of these cards, Cliffrunner Behemoth, has two of these abilities.
  在这些牌之中，奔崖巨兽具有两个上述的异能。
• 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。
• 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。
• Every company from a two-man operation to a global corporate behemoth has a strategy for profiting from Chinese growth.
  从二人公司到全球企业巨擘，所有企业都制定了旨在从中国增长中获利的战略。
• Behemoth methods are havens for defects because very few people can effectively parse them.
  冗长的方法是缺陷的避风港，因为很少有人可以有效地分析它们。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。