英语词汇“leviathan”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	leviathan
释义	le·vi·a·than I. \lə̇ˈvīəthən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Hebrew liwyāthān 1. a. often capitalized : a sea monster often symbolizing evil in the Old Testament and in Christian literature < thou didst crush the heads of leviathan — Ps 74:14 (Revised Standard Version) > b. (1) : any of various large sea animals < this leviathan of animals is the great Blue Whale — Weston LaBarre > (2) : a large oceangoing ship < the modern leviathan would be a commercial failure were the traveling public not willing to pay … for the extra speed, comfort, and luxury — W.D.Winter > c. archaic : a wealthy or powerful man 2. or leviathan state usually capitalized L [so called from the use of the word Leviathan to designate the state in the book Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes died 1679 English philosopher] : the political state; especially : an all-powerful state usually held to be characterized by a vast bureaucracy and machinery of coercion and exercising totalitarian control over its citizens < the oppression of Leviathan at its worst — Times Literary Supplement > < the prostration of the judiciary before the Nazi Leviathan — Karl Loewenstein > < millions … surrendered their right of private judgment to the Leviathan state — Geoffrey Bruun > 3. : the largest or most massive thing of its kind : the monster of a class < America has come to look like … a leviathan of mechanized power — Irwin Edman > < published that leviathan of school books — G.H.Genzmer > < leviathan shovels … dig their wide trench as they crawl — Frederick Simpich †1950 > II. adjective : of enormous size : monstrous, vast < the leviathan proportions of international scandal — Paul Murray > < show the volume and pressure of that leviathan intelligence — Christopher Morley >
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