leviathan

1. N-COUNT A leviathan is something which is extremely large and difficult to control, and which you find rather frightening. 龐然大物[文學性] [usu sing]

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)和發(fā)展著的龐大工業(yè)體系而幸存下來并掙扎進入20世紀。