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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 英語二 Text3】

單詞：

?a drop in the ocean 滄海一粟

?compare with… 與……相比較

?massive financial reserves 巨大的資金儲備

?venture capital 風險資本

分析：

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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.

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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

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

②定語從句：that was invested in the U.S. last year

• 簡化：that was invested

譯文：

在過去五年中，這五家最大的科技公司平均每年僅花費34億美元用于低于10億美元的收購——與其龐大的資金儲備和超過1300億美元的風險投資相比，只是滄海一粟。