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behemoth

/bih-hee-muhth, bee-uh-/US // bɪˈhi məθ, ˈbi ə- //UK // (bɪˈhiːmɒθ) //

巨兽,庞然大物,巨无霸,巨兽级

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24.
    • : any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a behemoth.The cartel is a behemoth that small business owners fear.

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Examples

  • Representatives of McDonald’s workers had asked Emanuel to recuse himself, citing Littler Mendelson’s legal work for McDonald’s as the fast-food behemoth sought to help franchisees fend off the protests over wages and unionization.

  • There is no need for our renewable energy transition to be subject to the constraints imposed by a fossil fuel behemoth.

  • The Elon Musk-led electric vehicle behemoth saw a 13% surge from bullish investors and traders on Monday following its 5-for-1 stock split— building on roaring momentum that’s seen the stock skyrocket 479% this year.

  • The talk of turning Mumbai into a global financial behemoth isn’t new, but little effort has been made to turn that dream into a reality.

  • For the foreseeable future, we will all continue to work tirelessly to fight this behemoth virus.

  • It was a decades-old howitzer Burns called a “multi-ton behemoth” and the atomic shell had a range of only ten miles.

  • After all, his next project is naming a street for Josef Brodsky, an even more outspoken enemy of the Soviet behemoth.

  • Ours is the Caiman model, a 6x6 behemoth that weighs in at over 15 tons and makes Humvees shrivel up with feelings of inadequacy.

  • What a demon, a behemoth, evil just seems to be seeping through him.

  • Colbert and Lampkin are not alone in their distaste for the online behemoth.

  • It goes to show that our doctrine is of God, else "behemoth would lie under shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens."

  • A great behemoth of a war-captain; one of the fiercest, inflexiblest, ruggedest creatures ever made in the form of man.

  • In the first place, it is evident that we may dismiss from our minds the idea that the Behemoth was an extinct pachyderm.

  • Assuming, therefore, that the Behemoth is identical with the hippopotamus, we will proceed with the description.

  • All created beings, from Behemoth to a butterfly, dread and fly (as best they may) that universal butcher—man.