The electric company, whose monopoly may be short lived, has suddenly mopped requiring users to wait half a day for a repairman.(这家电力公司的垄断地位可能是短暂的,但突然之间,它要用户等半天才能找到修理工。)
Had he succeeded, he would have acquired a monopoly.(如果他那时成功了,他就会获得垄断地位。)
When you own the market, you are true monopoly.(占有市场意味着你真正成了垄断。)
Peter the Great had a monopoly on dice, because people gambled a lot.(彼得大帝曾经垄断了骰子的销售,因为人们经常赌博。)
In France, card companies created EMV in part because the telephone monopoly was so maddeningly inefficient and expensive.(在法国,信用卡公司创建了EMV,部分原因是电话垄断的效率低得令人抓狂,而且价格昂贵。)
But we have no monopoly on brains.(但我们脑子里没有垄断。)
In Gandania, where the government has a monopoly on tobacco sales, the incidence of smoking-related health problems has risen steadily for the last twenty years.(在政府垄断烟草销售的Gandania,与吸烟有关的健康问题的发生率在过去20年里稳步上升。)
"Monopoly" is one of the best-selling games of all time.(“大富翁”是有史以来最畅销的游戏之一。)
Inflation was so high that the notes were like Monopoly money.(通货膨胀严重,货币变得跟“大富翁”游戏钞票无异。)