1·The company has a virtual monopoly in this area of trade.
这家公司实质上已经垄断了这种贸易。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·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。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Planters enjoyed a natural monopoly because they had no competitors.
种植园主享受着自然的垄断，因为他们没有竞争者。
4·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。
5·They say that if you didn't have monopoly, you wouldn't be able to do the things you do.
他们说，如果你没有垄断，你就不能做你现在做的事情。
6·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。
7·So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.
因此，学科垄断不仅可以通过创造知识来形成，还可以通过培养知识分子来形成。
8·The Byzantines were as secretive as the Chinese, however, and for many centuries the weaving and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly.
然而，拜占庭人和中国人一样神秘，在许多世纪里，丝绸织物的编织和贸易是严格的帝国垄断。
9·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。
10·It was granted a monopoly on joint-stock banking by Parliament in return for giving war loans to the government.
作为向政府银行提供战争贷款的回报，议会授予它对股份制银行的垄断地位。