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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rather than state-owned behemoths, the protagonists are smaller, often indirectly owned by local governments through financing vehicles.
  充当主角的不是大型国企，而是一些中小型企业，往往由地方政府通过融资工具间接控制。
• These behemoths look quite similar.
  这两个庞然大物看上去颇为相似。
• If you do not like government-underwritten, too-big-to-fail behemoths, you better embrace small-enough-to-fail hedge funds.
  如果你看不惯有政府撑腰的大到不能倒的银行巨头，那么，拥抱小到可以倒的对冲基金吧。
• 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。
• At the same time, the surge in the oil price has turned government-owned resource companies in the Middle East and Latin America into corporate behemoths.
  同一时期，油价上涨令中东和拉丁美洲的国有资源性企业成长为大型企业。
• 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。