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

• 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。
• Round rock in Texas and Palo Alto in California are half a continent apart, but Dell and Hewlett-Packard ( HP), two tech behemoths that, respectively, have their headquarters in those cities, have much in common.
  德克萨斯州的圆石城和加利福尼亚州的帕诺阿尔托市，分别是两大科技巨头戴尔和惠普的总部所在地，两城隔着半个大陆，却有很多相似之处。
• When it was built in1930, the Langley Full Scale Tunnel was the largest wind tunnel in the world, and at30 feet by60 feet it's still among the behemoths of the field.
  当它建于1930年，兰利全尺寸风洞中进行，是世界上最大的风洞，并在30英尺，宽60英尺它仍然是该领域中的庞然大物。
• Ancient Behemoths are the most powerful creature of the Strongholds.
  远古巨兽是据点里最强大的生物。
• In contrast to bondholders, shareholders see banking behemoths as scarily complex, not comfortingly protected.
  与债券持有者相比，股票持有者觉得银行业巨擘复杂得让人害怕，而没有受到让人安稳的保护。
• At first, these were curiosities. They'd soon become unshakable industry behemoths.
  起初，这些产品只是令人感兴趣，但不久之后，它们都成为了不可动摇的业界霸主。
• Of the 10 biggest local currency corporate bond sales in Asia this year, nine have come from Chinese behemoths such as China coal energy and China National Petroleum Corp.
  在今年亚洲10起最大的本币企业债发行案中，9起来自中国的大型公司，比如中煤能源（cce）和中国石油天然气集团公司（cnpc）。
• Yet these behemoths sit alongside some extremely nimble privately owned companies, such as Alibaba, the e-commerce company whose Taobao internet auction site saw off an incursion by US giant Ebay.
  然而，这些庞然大物身旁还存在着一些极为灵活的私有企业，例如电子商务公司阿里巴巴（Alibaba）&它旗下的互联网拍卖网站淘宝网（Taobao）就击退了美国电子商务巨头eBay的入侵。
• 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。
• 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。