【behemoth】 - A-level备考词汇

behemoth

UK:  [bɪ'hiːmɒθ]

US:  [bɪ'himɑθ]

复数：behemoths  

adj.

1.巨大的

n.

1.〔美口〕庞然大物

2.【圣经】巨兽

1 . Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
你且观看河马；我造你也造他。他吃草与牛一样；

2 . The nimble Obama startup is about to be absorbed into a stodgy, technologically backward behemoth: the federal government.
机敏的奥巴马以一个令人专注的关于一个技术落后庞然大物的故事开始：那就是联邦政府。

3 . The goal with Alcon was to offer a quick and comfortable way to debug ActionScript without making it a resource-hogging behemoth.
Alcon的目标是提供一种快速且便捷的方式来调试ActionScript，避免使用过多资源。

4 . The old Behemoth-class battlecruiser has proven to be an enduring design when kept up to date with periodic upgrades.
旧的比蒙级巡洋舰通过定期升级来跟上时代，这验证了他设计上的持久性。

5 . Two weeks later, he found himself caught in the middle of a congressional debate over the size and direction of a behemoth stimulus package.
但仅仅两个礼拜之后，他就发现自己身处有关经济刺激计划的争论漩涡。