??每日長難句 127

原句：

①The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing—/② Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, / ③but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, / ④which doesn't have any physical product at all.

【2018 英語二 Text 3】

分析：

??句子之間的邏輯關(guān)系

• “破折號”表進(jìn)一步解釋說明句子②解釋說明句子①
• “but”表轉(zhuǎn)折，句子③的內(nèi)容與句子②為轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系
• 句子④“which”引出非限定性定語從句，解釋說明前面的名詞詞組WhatApp messaging service

??主句

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing

??從句（定語從句）

which doesn't have any physical product at all

生詞：

• upmarket adj. 高級的，高端的
• grocery chain 連鎖雜貨店
• acquire v. 購得，得到，獲得
• physical product 實體產(chǎn)品

譯文：

數(shù)字經(jīng)濟(jì)巨頭的勢頭和野心十分驚人——亞馬遜公司剛剛宣布以135億美元的價格收購高端連鎖食品店Whole Foods, 而在兩年前Facebook公司甚至出資更多收購了壓根兒沒有任何實體產(chǎn)品的WhatsApp通訊服務(wù)。