juggernaut

noun
🔊/ˈdʒʌɡənɔːt/
🔊/ˈdʒʌɡərnɔːt/
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  1. (British English, often disapproving) a very large lorry重型卡车
    • juggernauts roaring through country villages隆隆驶过村庄的重型卡车
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
  2. (formal) a large and powerful force or institution that cannot be controlled不可抗拒的强大力量;无法控制的强大机构
    • a bureaucratic juggernaut庞大的官僚机构
  3. Word Originmid 19th cent.: extension of Juggernaut, the form of Krishna worshipped in Puri Orissa, where his image is dragged through the streets in an annual festival.