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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These behemoths look quite similar.
  这两个庞然大物看上去颇为相似。
• Tatum says growth companies that cross that no man's land to become$ 1bn-a-year sales behemoths do so with a mixture of entrepreneurial vision and sound management.
  泰特姆表示，要想跨过无人区、成为年销售额达10亿美元的大型企业，成长企业需要结合创业者的远见和健全的管理。