leviathan是什么意思？

leviathan

英[ləˈvaɪəθən] 美[ləˈvaɪəθən]

• n. <圣经>海中怪兽，庞然大物；
• adj. 极大的、强大的；

复数：leviathans;

例句

• her leviathan intelligence 她的极强的智力
• The colossal sub was a wall of steel, an atomic leviathan. 这样的庞然巨物往那一横,简直就是一堵钢铁之墙, 一头原子海怪.
• Total systems failure . Defense protocols breached. Leviathan UnIt'shutting down. 体系宕机. 防御部分被损坏.烈焰海兽关机.
• Creates a thick armor shell around Leviathan that protects him against attacks. 潮汐猎人生出厚实的盔甲,帮助他抵御攻击.
• Thomas Hobbes. Excerpt from Leviathan. 14霍布斯. 节录自《利维坦》.
• Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century. 民主经历了内战和庞大工业体系的逐渐兴起仍然幸存了下来，并且艰难挺进了20世纪。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  庞然大物；巨无霸
  A leviathan is something which is extremely large and difficult to control, and which you find rather frightening.
  例句
  Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century. 民主经历了内战和庞大工业体系的逐渐兴起仍然幸存了下来，并且艰难挺进了20世纪。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  极大的、强大的
  her leviathan intelligence 她的极强的智力

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the largest or most massive thing of its kind;
  "it was a leviathan among redwoods""they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"
  2. monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament