leviathan

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

Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century. 民主经历了内战和发展着的庞大工业体系而幸存下来并挣扎进入20世纪。