leviathan
/lɪˈvaɪəθən/noun
1- (in biblical use) a sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile (e.g. Job 41, Ps. 74:14), and with the Devil (after Isa. 27:1)（《圣经》不同篇章中分别象征鲸鱼、鳄鱼和魔鬼的）海中怪兽。
1.1
- a very large aquatic creature, especially a whale水中巨兽（尤指鲸鱼）：
the great leviathans of the deep.
深海中的巨兽。
1.2
- a thing that is very large or powerful, especially a ship巨大而强有力的东西（尤指船）。
1.3
- an autocratic monarch or state独裁君主; 独裁主义国家（源自霍布斯于1651年所写《利维坦》一书中的典故）。
- ORIGIN: with allusion to Hobbes' Leviathan (1651).
词源
via late Latin from Hebrew liwyāṯān.