| 单词 | leviathan |
| 释义 | leviathan (once / 4226 pages) n A leviathan is a giant sea creature. It can be real, like a whale, or mythical. Moby Dick is an example of a famous leviathan. The word comes from Hebrew livyathan which means a great sea serpent or sea monster. A real leviathan is the giant sea squid Architeuthis, which was photographed alive for the first time in 2005. A leviathan can also be something that is really, really big. The Titanic was a leviathan that now rests with leviathans. WORD FAMILYleviathan: leviathans USAGE EXAMPLESIn “The Leaky Leviathan,” a study published three years ago in the Harvard Law Review, David Pozen attempts to understand a puzzle. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” in Paris; for years René Descartes lived in the Netherlands. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) Scientists say the giant manta ray, known as a gentle leviathan, is in fact a "predator of the deep" preying on fish and other animals. BBC(Nov 30, 2016) 1n the largest or most massive thing of its kind it was a leviathan among redwoods they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks Hyper freak, lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed 2n monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament Hyper mythical creature, mythical monster a monster renowned in folklore and myth |
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