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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。