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

• Second, the European Commission should force Gazprom to unbundle production and transportation to break up its monopolies.
  其次，欧盟委员会（europeancommission）应迫使俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司将生产和运输两个环节分开，以打破其垄断。
• We all call these utilities natural monopolies.
  我们称这些公共事业为自然垄断。
• 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”。
• Break regional Blockades and trade monopolies
  打破地区封锁和行业垄断
• The law creates or facilitates monopolies, and monopolies are able to exact a toll from the community.
  法律创造了或便利了垄断事业，而垄断事业可以向社会横征暴敛。
• 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。
• Privatisation and the breaking up of statutory monopolies has reduced rent-seeking by organised groups of public employees.
  私有化和打破法定垄断，减少了有组织的公共雇主群体的寻租行为。
• These monopolies also preventJapanfrom seriously pursuing alternative sources of electricity.
  这些垄断行为也抑制了日本急切追求可代替电的能源。
• The economy was hidebound by public spending and private monopolies.
  经济由于公共开支和私有垄断而变得僵化。
• 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。