| 单词 | monopolize |
| 释义 | mo·nop·o·lize Synonyms: < monopolize the auto market in the area > < monopolize the attention of a guest > < monopolize a family car > engross applies usually to an unprotested monopolizing of attention, interest, or time, as of one charmed of held irresistibly < a group of boys sprawl, teen-age fashion, on couches and chairs, engrossed in a drama that blares from a television set — Lamp > < they were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away — Scott Fitzgerald > < an engrossing novel > absorb is often interchangeable with engross but usually has a nonpersonal subject and suggests a monopolizing more often against the will of the one acted upon than does engross < crammed with ideas, projects, hobbies — enough to keep you absorbed and fascinated for the next five hundred years — Glynne Hiller > < petty cares and vexations that absorb life's energies — M.R.Cohen > consume, in the somewhat extended sense pertinent here, stresses the monopolizing of the total attention, interest, or time which is its usual object < a consuming interest > < a consuming curiosity > < the guilt which consumed Lawrence during those treacherous moments — H.M.Sachar > |
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