| 词汇 | example_english_giant |
| 释义 | Examples of giantThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The return of the giants; ecological effects of an increasing elephant population. All of these giants of the investment management business are built on foundations created in the work of capital ideas. There are countries for children, and others for men, some few only for giants. The public sense of a school of thought seems to be built around one or a few intellectual giants who take a strong public stand. However, the giant's cursing voice is cut short by the sailor. One clear and troubling example of a domestic biological threat to our system of food and agriculture is the way the industrial meat giants raise and process livestock. At length the good men became corrupted by their association with the bad, and the kind of life that giants live, that is, one spent in violence, appeared. Because both countries were among the richest, fastest growing and militarily strongest emerging industrial giants, they have been viewed as enemies when they cast their eyes overseas. Beyond these two commercial giants, however, we can see some measured change over time in meeting places and can identify some degree of social segregation in practice. The entry of the royal visitors to the city would be overseen by the ®gures of angels, patron saints or giants, usually placed before the arches. If not, it would mean their return to the legal status of serfs, with the agrochemical giants as lords and leeches. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Was this the behaviour to be expected of the technological giants of the future? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not be able to develop our true strength, he said, or be able to compete in a world of giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even the giants are not in these days wholly independent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can our comparatively small-based industry modernise itself successfully and compete with the other three giants in the markets of the world? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Looking at the structure of the industry, we naturally look first at the two giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the soap industry, for example, there are only two or three giants, but they compete with ruthless efficiency against one another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While it is not one of the giants of the life assurance world, it is quite sound. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well, even a pigmy will try to defend his home; and pigmies have been known to account for giants in the course of human history. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Among tour operators proper, the range varies from the giants of the package travel trade to one-man—or, frequently, one-woman—companies exploiting some niche in the market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously one never gets a council composed entirely of giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We also want to avoid the subsidy war and the clash between these two trading giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The organisation has an extremely interesting line-up which includes four of the former giants of the old-fashioned cinematographic industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have made some progress against those giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At a 1978 estimate, this association had 63 member companies, including most of the giants in the industry, representing over 30,000 employees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The supermarket giants are still selling lamb at high prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must also remember the plight of the ancillary industries to the two giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, one cannot take it absolutely for granted that they will be followed by the same kind of intellectual giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must try to ensure that our successful giants of today go on to greater successes in the future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When those companies were saved, 10,000 small firms were also saved, because they supply components and services to the two giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have reached the stage where the big wars are no longer acceptable to either of the two giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Difficulties make giants and the difficulties will be overcome. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I did not quite like the simile, but it is pretty simple, and there is no great problem: they are not giants over this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am immediately concerned with these giants 125 ft. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even the giants of the industry feel the need to create links with others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are, in a sense, old chestnuts—what happened to the giants of yesteryear, or why are today's politicians so trivial? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that it is at all inevitable that those giants will deliver the goods to the people of our country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The giants in the film industry, like the giants in other branches of industry, show no mercy to the little men; they crush them mercilessly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have now done away with the decentralised small units of last century, and placed in their stead these modern giants of industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I make a plea to the holiday giants in the travel world to help in any way that they can. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think of the great parliamentary giants of the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of those giants of industry are now but memories. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I mean, by neutralism, demands that this country should mediate between two giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are comparatively small, and that would enable them to get into the corners of the market that the giants cannot touch. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such ministerial triumphs are reserved—quite properly—for our political giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not have such giants now; we have third-way minnows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The lower thresholds on poultry drag small family farms into a complex regulatory framework designed to control global industrial giants. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Many smaller companies owe their very existence to the industrial giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I also pay tribute to one of our local industrial giants which has a social conscience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Similarly, there is a need to speak about the pressures from the media giants, which invariably try to raise the stakes in any competition. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One remembers that since that day there have been other giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First the two giants: fearful, deadlocked, creaking and grinding together, with aces up their sleeves and their tongues half in their cheeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The majority of the world's people live in poverty and backwardness, the helpless spectators of this spendthrift struggle of giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A co-operative with the ability to compete in the world of the giants—the supermarket chains and food processors—would be a benefit to producers arid consumers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The construction industry, rather like agriculture, is one of mainly small employers with a few giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of his monopoly of the line, he has a giant's strength. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With that picture before us, she appears, potentially, as the greatest aggressive force in the world today, and, between these two giants, this nation stands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The answer to this quandary given by these giants of the chemical world was this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A firm of 200 or 300 people can be a very real competitor even to the big giants in certain industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I feel that inflation and unemployment are the giants we have to overcome. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Furthermore, they are the companies which grow bigger and become the giants of tomorrow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We could be among the giants rather than the pigmies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, 38 years later, we are seeing the re-emergence of those giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the past 12 months the giants in my constituency have been heavily hit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are either being driven out of business by taxation or being swallowed up by ruthless and impersonal giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he was to travel around some parts of the country, he would find no shortage of monstrous giants to tilt at. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are a sophisticated but small economy, suspended between two economic giants with whom we have to trade to live. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we have to avoid is the creation of giants and pygmies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should it be assumed that battle dress was to be made for giants while caps were to be made for children? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not in the least worried about the two great giants on either side of us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only difference is that the heads of the giants seem to be harder—or perhaps he would say thicker. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I did say that the battle of international trade was a battle of the giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The traditional image of those giants conjures up a picture of pollution, which, thankfully, is not nearly as bad as it was. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need more agreements of this kind with other tobacco giants. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We give massive slices of public money to industrial giants without effectively negotiating the terms under which it is done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, these days large entrepreneurial projects are usually undertaken by consortia, joint ventures or alliances rather than by single industrial giants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been outside the sphere of the warring giants of power politics for several hundred years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apart from our own peripheral problems, we shall be forced to compete with giants, in manufacturing terms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While bankruptcies among small firms have increased, it is now also the giants in my area that face problems and the threat of redundancies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, if those giants want to stay in business they have to find something else to manufacture. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Others are the numbers of firms, and thus the rate at which the giants absorb the rest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The manufacturing giants, unlike the primary producers, are mobile. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He only mentions banks but does not now refer to the super giants which he mentioned earlier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Following these giants, and until about twenty years ago, however, there was a" dark age" during which sociologists tended to ignore the subject. According to tradition, many sites, both natural and artificial, were formed by giants or the devil. When the shaft gets deeper than four or five meters, it steps up, giving an effect similar to the beginning of a giant's stairway. If three giants had come through the door there would have been no choice but to retreat. Unlike pharmaceuticals, and apart from the giants mentioned above, the industry is highly fragmented, consisting of numerous small niche markets with a few products only. Each of the newly merged giants has their specialisms. Between 1897 and 1904, not only the greatest corporate merger movement in the nation's history occurred, but these new giants actively moved overseas. Eventually, a vast chamber is formed, like a giant's hall, lit only at one or two working areas. The mature shell size also varies from small species a few centimetres across to giants of a metre or more in diameter. We - pygmies or not - just stand on the shoulders of all these giants, and so we see further- and not otherwise. The narrator introduces each part of the giant's speech with references to the sound he produces. The colors chosen for these corporate giants were no accident. The profiles of these two language giants are not very close. Information on the albedos and densities of those giants showing transits will be obtained. Far from delivering priority goods and services efficiently, most have been shambling giants draining funds out of national coffers. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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