n.垄断；独占；专利；控制

Liberty and monopoly cannot live together. 自由与垄断不能并存。

The company will become a state-owned monopoly. 这家企业将变成一家国有的垄断企业。

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. 帝国主义是资本主义的垄断阶段。

The government has a monopoly of oil production in that country. 在那个国家，政府独占石油开采权。

Scientific achievement is not a male monopoly. 科学上的成就不是男人的专利。

Humans don't have a monopoly on laughter. 笑并非人类的专利。

The people who used to control the editorial filters can't accept that their monopoly now is gone. 那些曾经控制编辑过滤不能接受他们的垄断地位的人们，现在已经不存在了。

One evening, we sat playing Monopoly while thunder and lightning and high winds raged outside. 有天夜晚，我们正在玩控制游戏时，窗外突然电闪雷鸣，狂风大作。