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

• Rather than state-owned behemoths, the protagonists are smaller, often indirectly owned by local governments through financing vehicles.
  充当主角的不是大型国企，而是一些中小型企业，往往由地方政府通过融资工具间接控制。
• Rather than fight the formation of global behemoths, policy makers must ensure they do not abuse their power.
  政策制定者必须确保全球巨头不会滥用自己的实力，而非防止它们的形成。
• 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。
• The emergence of bigger and even more complex financial behemoths all too big to fail is a harbinger of crises to come.
  更大、甚至更为复杂的金融“巨兽”的出现都因太大而不会破产是危机将要来临的预兆。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。