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单词 behemoth
释义
behemothbe‧he‧moth /bəˈhiːmɒθ $ -mɑːθ/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbehemoth
Origin:
1500-1600 Behemoth very large animal (probably a hippopotamus) mentioned in the Bible (14-21 centuries), from Latin, from Hebrew
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • One of the new weapons is a $2.5 million behemoth: the M-1 tank.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Brokers hope that corporations will spring for the big bucks necessary to secure one of these behemoths.
  • But shoppers are now more loyal to their local shops than to faceless behemoths like Philip Morris.
  • It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth.
  • On this stingy substitute rain, the behemoth of all living things, the redwood, thrives.
  • The dread-swinging, goatee-toting, guitar-slashing, spring-heeled rock behemoth that is Wiz Mega Curses!
  • The entertainment behemoth has said it would wait until shareholders in both companies approve the acquisition at separate meetings Thursday.
  • This is the kind of high school where the students are multiethnic behemoths in their mid-30s who major in advanced sneering.
  • Ultimate Fighting reached further, putting muscular behemoths in brutal contests, and fizzled.
formal something that is very large:  a trade behemoth that shipped abroad $800 billion worth of goods
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