A leviathan is something which is extremely large and difficult to control, and which you find rather frightening.
例句
Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.民主經(jīng)歷了內(nèi)戰(zhàn)和龐大工業(yè)體系的逐漸興起仍然幸存了下來,并且艱難挺進(jìn)了20世紀(jì)。
英漢詞典釋義
adj.
極大的、強(qiáng)大的
her leviathan intelligence她的極強(qiáng)的智力
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the largest or most massive thing of its kind;
"it was a leviathan among redwoods""they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"
2. monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament