英语释义

• have or exploit a monopoly of;

  "OPEC wants to monopolize oil"

• have and control fully and exclusively;

  "He monopolizes the laser printer"

片语

forestall先发制人，预先阻止；垄断，屯积；领先；占先一步

corner角落，拐角处；地区，偏僻处；困境，窘境

英汉例句

• Instead, big countries jostle for a share of influence, knowing they cannot monopolise the scene; small and medium-sized powers struggle to keep room for manoeuvre by playing off would-be patrons.

  相反，大国知道它们不可能垄断该地区，因而争抢着分享影响力；小国以及中等国家则通过让那些自诩的保护人彼此相斗而努力保持着自己的回旋余地。

• Although, not in itself, enough to monopolise an invention a provisional application will provide an applicant with an all important priority date and patent pending number.

  尽管不在于其本身，一项临时性申请已足以垄断一项发明，它仍将向申请人提供所有重要的优先权日期和专利受理号。

• We already know that better-off parents are more likely to access private schools and to monopolise the highest-performing state schools.

  我们已经知道，家境好的家长更倾向于私立学校，并垄断了教学质量最好的公立学校。

• This brought the jealousy of his associates who felt very unsecured by his affluence that he would monopolise their business one day with his money.

  这使嫉妒他的同伙，他们都感到非常无担保，由他的财富，他将独占生意一天与他的钱。

• For once Rooney did not have to monopolise the stage as England played efficiently and ruthlessly.

  在鲁尼并不在最佳状态时，英格兰依然可以踢得卓有成效和冷酷无情。

• For all too many people it is now taken as a given that companies promote greed, crush creativity and monopolise power.

  使太多的人认定，是公司推动了贪婪、扭曲了创新、垄断了权力。

• The likes of Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie may monopolise the media spotlight, but judged in terms of bank balance alone, they pale into insignificance when compared with Harrison Ford.

  诚然，布拉德·皮特、妮可·基德曼和安吉丽娜·茱莉们垄断了八卦周刊的聚光灯，但论及银行的收支状况，与哈里森·福特相比，这些新闻媒体的宠儿就显得相形见绌了。

• Some fear that one company could try to monopolise other key parts of the cloud; ironically, Microsoft worries that Google is doing exactly that with the online advertising market.

  有人害怕会有公司想垄断云的其他关键部分；讽刺的是，微软担心Google正利用这个标準做在线广告。

• Look at any of the global rankings and not only do the Ivy League and Oxbridge monopolise the top of the tree, British and (especially) American colleges dominate most of the leading 100 places.

  在全球学校排名榜上，除常青藤联盟，牛津剑桥大学垄断前三以外，英国和美国大学占据了大部分前一百位的大学，美国更为突出。