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

• These behemoths look quite similar.
  这两个庞然大物看上去颇为相似。
• The dilemma is being played out all over corporate America and beyond as companies ranging from behemoths like General Electric to small-town retailers and community banks re-examine themselves in the unflattering light of a global recession.
  这种两难处境正在全美乃至美国之外的公司上演，范围从通用电气（GeneralElectric）这样的庞然大物，到小镇零售商和社区银行，面对全球衰退的不利环境，这些公司开始重新审视自己。
• 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。
• Because they are small enough to fail, hedge funds represent an appealing alternative to too-big-to-fail behemoths.
  由于对冲基金小到可以倒，因此，想比那些大到不能倒的巨头，对冲基金是一种有吸引力的选择。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rather than fight the formation of global behemoths, policy makers must ensure they do not abuse their power.
  政策制定者必须确保全球巨头不会滥用自己的实力，而非防止它们的形成。
• 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。
• But the hedge funds 'real game is to stop Congress from passing legislation that would wind down the two behemoths and share part of their vast mortgage risk with the private market.
  但对冲基金的重头戏是：阻止国会通过立法逐步关闭两房，将它们巨大的抵押贷款风险分摊到私人市场。