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

• 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。
• 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。
• Unlike many managers, he has largely eschewed state-controlled behemoths in favour of small-and medium-sized companies run by families or individuals, and bought mainland-listed entities as well as Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong or the US.
  与很多基金经理不同，他基本回避了国有大盘股，而主要投资于由家族或个人经营的中小型企业。他的投资标的包括中国内地上市的公司以及在香港或美国上市的中资企业。
• These behemoths look quite similar.
  这两个庞然大物看上去颇为相似。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。