behemoths是什么意思？

behemoths

• n. 巨兽，庞然大物( behemoth的名词复数 )；

例句

• Though relatively non - aggressive, these lumbering behemoths are savagely efficient at dispatching their adversaries when provoked. 虽然它们相对来说不会主动攻击,可一旦被激怒, 这些看似笨拙的巨兽可以毫不费力地将对手撕成碎片.
• Washington , the argument goes, let banks grow into behemoths in the first place. 于是争论僵持不下, 而华府继续放任银行长成举足轻重的巨兽.
• Few state - owned firms have been sold, and most are laggard behemoths. 国有 公司很少被卖, 大多数是落后的庞然大物.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  庞然大物；巨兽
  If you refer to something as a behemoth, you mean that it is extremely large, and often that it is unpleasant, inefficient, or difficult to manage.
  例句
  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。 ...his behemoth 1,047 page book. 他厚达1,047页的皇皇巨著