monopolies

英 [məˈnɒpəliz]

美 [məˈnɑpəliz]

n.  垄断; 专营服务; 被垄断的商品(或服务); 独占; 专利; 专利品; “大富翁”(棋类游戏，游戏者以玩具钞票买卖房地产)
monopoly的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 垄断;专营服务
  If a company, person, or state has amonopoly onsomething such as an industry, they have complete control over it, so that it is impossible for others to become involved in it.
  1. ...Russian moves to end a state monopoly on land ownership.
     俄国人采取的终止国家垄断土地所有权的措施
  2. ...the governing party's monopoly over the media.
     执政党对媒体的垄断
  3. ...an inquiry by the Monopolies Commission.
     垄断委员会的调查
• N-COUNT 垄断企业;专卖者
  Amonopolyis a company which is the only one providing a particular product or service.
  1. ...a state-owned monopoly.
     国有垄断企业
• N-SING 独有;独具
  If you say that someone does not have amonopoly onsomething, you mean that they are not the only person who has that thing.
  1. Women do not have a monopoly on feelings of betrayal.
     被出卖的感觉并非只有女性才有。

双语例句

• The background is one in which many private and public monopolies have been dismantled.
  目前的背景是，许多私营和公共垄断企业已经分拆。
• Strong market competition is essential to abolish monopolies, which lead to inferior services and corruption.
  激烈的市场竞争对于消灭垄断是必需的，否则只会导致劣质服务和腐败。
• The web encourages many entrants, but also seemingly unassailable monopolies – until they are not.
  网络鼓励了很多进入者，还有那些看似无懈可击的垄断者&知道他们丧失垄断地位。
• As successful companies became monopolies and wealth disparities widened, the bourgeoisie would become their own gravediggers.
  随着成功的企业变为垄断者以及贫富差距的扩大，资产阶级将成为自己的掘墓人。
• Electricity, gas and water were considered to be natural monopolies.
  电、煤气和水垄断经营过去被认为是自然而然的。
• Interoperability standards can create, or destroy, innovation oligopolies and monopolies.
  互操作性标准可以创造或摧毁创新寡头和垄断。
• Admirers say these stars of the so-called sharing economy are breaking up monopolies that have grown greedy and lazy.
  支持者称，这些参与分享型经济（sharingeconomy）的明星公司，打破了已经变得贪婪和懒惰的垄断服务。
• Most of the genuine monopolies were dissolved.
  大部分真正的垄断公司被解散了。
• Economists view this as, at best, a necessary evil since monopolies distort prices.
  经济学家认为，由于垄断会扭曲价格，专利最好也只能算是一种“必要的罪恶”。
• No one could compete with these steel monopolies.
  没有人能和这些钢铁垄断企业竞争。