197【讲解】静姐考研英语每日一句 I 2021英二T3

每日长难句 197

原句：

Between them, the five biggest tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year on sub-$1 billion acquisitions over the past five years—a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130 billion of venture capital / that was invested in the U.S. last year.

【2021 英语二 Text3】

单词：

✅a drop in the ocean 沧海一粟

✅compare with… 与……相比较

✅massive financial reserves 巨大的资金储备

✅venture capital 风险资本

分析：

📝找谓语动词

Between them, the five biggest tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year on sub-$1 billion acquisitions over the past five years—a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130 billion of venture capital that was invested in the U.S. last year.

📝断开长难句

①主句：Between them, the five biggest tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year on sub-$1 billion acquisitions over the past five years—a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130 billion of venture capital

• 简化：tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year

②定语从句：that was invested in the U.S. last year

• 简化：that was invested

译文：

在过去五年中，这五家最大的科技公司平均每年仅花费34亿美元用于低于10亿美元的收购——与其庞大的资金储备和超过1300亿美元的风险投资相比，只是沧海一粟。