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。

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。

Managers do not have a monopoly on stress.

并不只是经营管理者有压力。

Women do not have a monopoly on feelings of betrayal.

背叛感并非是女人独有的。

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。

By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.

到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。

But we have no monopoly on brains.

但我们脑子里没有垄断。

He really thinks he has a monopoly on the truth.

他真以为唯有他明事理。

Americans, of course, have no monopoly on eccentric views.

当然，美国人并不是奇谈怪论的垄断者。

Librarians Have no Monopoly on the Activities They claim.

图书馆员所从事的活动没有专属性。

But its monopoly on power is likely to end on August 30th.

然而自民党对权力的垄断局面很可能在8月30日结束。

Russia wants a monopoly on the use of force in the former Soviet Union.

俄罗斯需要在前苏联地区拥有使用武力的垄断地位。

Agriculture, important as it is, should not have a monopoly on this Round.

农业虽然重要，但不应该垄断本次谈判回合。

I like to tell people that it's not like you have the monopoly on busy.

我想说的是，并非只有你一个人每天忙得团团转。

New England doesn't have a monopoly on fall color in the United States.

新英格兰并没有被美国的秋色所垄断。

The theater has a monopoly on soft drink sales, and you'll pay what they charge.

电影院垄断了软饮料销售，它说多少您就得付多少。

The Chinese kept their recipe secret and with that their monopoly on production.

烧造瓷器的配方一直秘而不传，所以中国人垄断了瓷器的制造。

After 1992 the state monopoly on alcohol (and health checks on its quality) collapsed.

1992年之后，对酒精(及其质量检测)的国家垄断完全崩溃。

Yet Iceberg and similar outfits demonstrate that geeks are losing their monopoly on programming.

而Iceberg和其他类似的公司已经证明极客们对编程的垄断正在被打破。

Other countries go further: Saudi Aramco, for one, has a monopoly on oil production in Saudi Arabia.

其他的国家则更进一步：例如，沙特石油公司在沙特阿拉伯拥有了石油生产的垄断地位。

No one knows where the next brilliant idea will emerge; no culture has a monopoly on human genius.

没人知道下一个天才之见何时会问世，也没有哪一种文化可以支配全人类的智慧。

But when it comes to making money, the BCCI, which claims a monopoly on cricket in India, does much better.

但是面对赚钱这一方面，要求垄断印度板球行业的印度板球管理委员会却做的很好。

Speaking of things to come, the iPad's near-monopoly on the tablet business isn't going to last much longer.

说到这些新东东，平板电脑市场近乎被iPad垄断的局面也不会太长。

His wife Tien held, through the Bogasari flour mills, the state monopoly on the import and milling of wheat.

他的妻子Tien通过Bogasari磨粉厂控制了小麦进口和磨粉的垄断权。

The long-term strength of the dollar will only be weakened by maintaining the Fed's monopoly on our monetary system.

维持美联储对我们货币体系的垄断只会在长期内导致美元的削弱。

IT departments, and by extension many business and enterprise software companies, have a monopoly on the user base.

IT部门，扩展到很多业务和企业软件公司，对于用户有一种偏执。

To the side sit the rusting pumps of MPPE, the state firm that this year lost its monopoly on fuel sales and distribution.

不远的一旁躺着国有公司MPPE生产的油管，锈迹斑斑，这家公司于今年丧失了其在燃油出售和经销领域的垄断地位。

Putting Russian gas in Nabucco dilutes its importance as a counterweight to Russia's monopoly on east-west gas supplies.

将俄罗斯天然气输入到纳布科(Nabucco)输油管道中削弱了其制衡俄罗斯垄断东西欧天然气供应的作用。