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juggernaut n. /ˈdʒʌɡərnɔːt/A huge, powerful, and overwhelmin

juggernaut n. /ˈdʒʌɡərnɔːt/

A huge, powerful, and overwhelming force or institution. 不可阻挡的强大势力;巨型机构;势不可挡的力量

(British English, informal) A large, heavy truck. (英式口语)大型卡车;重型货车

Etymology 词源

源自梵语 “Jagannātha”(意为 “世界之主”,指印度教大神毗湿奴的化身贾格纳特)。传说中贾格纳特的祭祀战车体积庞大,信徒会投身车轮下以示虔诚,这一场景让该词逐渐引申出 “巨大且具有摧毁性的力量” 含义。19 世纪初进入英语,最初专指 “宗教相关的巨型战车”,后扩展为 “不可阻挡的势力”,20 世纪后在英式口语中衍生出 “大型卡车” 的含义。

Collocations 固定搭配

a juggernaut of + 名词(…… 的强大势力 / 巨头)

industrial juggernaut(工业巨头)

political juggernaut(政治强权)

unstoppable juggernaut(不可阻挡的力量)

corporate juggernaut(企业巨擘)

Examples 例句

The country's manufacturing sector is an industrial juggernaut that drives its economic growth.该国的制造业是推动其经济增长的工业巨头。

Her campaign turned into an unstoppable juggernaut, winning support across all regions.

她的竞选活动成为不可阻挡的力量,赢得了各地的支持。

We saw a line of juggernauts on the motorway during our trip to Scotland.

去苏格兰的路上,我们在高速公路上看到了一队大型卡车。

New York Times

The word juggernaut has appeared in 438 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 11 in "'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' Score, a Noisy Gem, Will Arrive at Last" by Christopher R. Weingarten:

过去一年里,“juggernaut” 一词在《纽约时报》网站的 438 篇文章中出现过,其中就包括 12 月 11 日克里斯托弗・R・温加滕(Christopher R. Weingarten)的《<德州电锯杀人狂> 配乐:嘈杂瑰宝,终迎问世》一文。

"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" changed the horror business when it splattered out in 1974, turning a spartan budget into a $30 million juggernaut and laying groundwork for the blood-soaked slasher genre that dominated the 1980s. Among its many innovations was its unconventional score, an abstract suite of bone-chilling scrapes, metallic clanks, ominous drones and mysterious stingers.

1974 年,《德州电锯杀人狂》横空出世,彻底改写了恐怖电影行业的格局。它以微薄预算斩获 3000 万美元票房,成为票房巨鳄,并为 20 世纪 80 年代风靡一时的血腥砍杀类型片奠定了基石。该片的诸多创新中,非传统配乐尤为亮眼 —— 这组抽象乐章由令人毛骨悚然的刮擦声、金属撞击声、不祥的嗡鸣声与神秘的突发刺痛音效构成。