These were supplanted by processors from Intel, which by the mid-2000s translated its dominance of pc semiconductors into a near monopoly of the server market.

这些被英特尔的处理器所取代，到 2000 年代中期，英特尔将其在个人电脑半导体领域的主导地位转化为对服务器市场的近乎垄断。

But there is a dark side to the near monopoly of non-renewable fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas, along with controversial uranium, to supply our growing energy demands.

但是，对煤炭、石油、天然气这些不可再生的矿物燃料及有争议的铀进行近乎垄断地使用以满足我们日益增长的对能源的需求的做法有其危险的一面。

Picture what that could mean for Illumina, a company that would not only have a near monopoly on gene sequencing technology, but also a major cancer screening test.

想象一下这对 Illumina 意味着什么，这家公司不仅几乎垄断了基因测序技术，而且还拥有主要的癌症筛查测试。