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。
• Other Chinese industrial behemoths are set to follow Sany's example.
  其它中国工业巨头准备效仿三一的榜样。
• Because they are small enough to fail, hedge funds represent an appealing alternative to too-big-to-fail behemoths.
  由于对冲基金小到可以倒，因此，想比那些大到不能倒的巨头，对冲基金是一种有吸引力的选择。
• The dilemma is being played out all over corporate America and beyond as companies ranging from behemoths like General Electric to small-town retailers and community banks re-examine themselves in the unflattering light of a global recession.
  这种两难处境正在全美乃至美国之外的公司上演，范围从通用电气（GeneralElectric）这样的庞然大物，到小镇零售商和社区银行，面对全球衰退的不利环境，这些公司开始重新审视自己。
• 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。
• 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。
• While investors have become used to viewing Chinese banks as lookalike state-owned behemoths, their latest batch of earnings was notable for the growing divergence in their strategies and fortunes.
  尽管投资者已习惯于把中国各银行视为大同小异的国有巨擘，但最新业绩数据显示，它们在战略和财富方面的差距越来越大。
• These behemoths look quite similar.
  这两个庞然大物看上去颇为相似。
• When it was built in1930, the Langley Full Scale Tunnel was the largest wind tunnel in the world, and at30 feet by60 feet it's still among the behemoths of the field.
  当它建于1930年，兰利全尺寸风洞中进行，是世界上最大的风洞，并在30英尺，宽60英尺它仍然是该领域中的庞然大物。
• 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。