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

• 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。
• The company will also display more powerful versions of the Hummer H2 and H3 behemoths, though it boasts that the new H2 is more fuel-efficient than predecessor.
  该公司还将展出动力更为强劲的新版悍马（hummer）h2和h3，而该公司夸口称，新型h2比上一个版本能效更高。
• But for technology behemoths that count on computers like Intel and Hewlett-Packard, the new crop of thinner laptops are the latest attempt to electroshock demand.
  但对于英特尔（Intel）和惠普（Hewlett-Packard）这样依靠计算机的技术巨头而言，新一季更纤薄的笔记本电脑是它们试图采用电击式疗法提振市场需求的最新尝试。
• Back then the oil industry reacted by unveiling an unprecedented string of megadeals, which created the behemoths that dominate the market today.
  当时的石油工业做出反应，发起空前的一连串巨额交易，造就了当今主导市场的几个庞然大物。
• 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。
• The emergence of bigger and even more complex financial behemoths all too big to fail is a harbinger of crises to come.
  更大、甚至更为复杂的金融“巨兽”的出现都因太大而不会破产是危机将要来临的预兆。
• 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。
• 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）。
• These behemoths look quite similar.
  这两个庞然大物看上去颇为相似。
• The advantages of a vigorous free-market economy compete now with the risks that corporate behemoths pose to core societal values, not least the integrity of the ecosphere and our common survival.
  目前，蓬勃发展的自由市场经济的优势，与企业巨擘对核心社会价值观构成的风险形成了竞争，特别是生态环境与我们共生的完整性。