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

• 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。
• 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。
• Joining the WTO did not stop China from manipulating its currency, from rigging its tender procedures, from funnelling cheap finance to its state-owned behemoths, or from systematically flouting intellectual property rules.
  加入WTO并未阻止中国操纵人民币汇率，未阻止它操纵招标程序，未阻止它将廉价资金输送给大型国企，也未阻止它系统性地藐视知识产权规则。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。