每日長難句 Day 198

原句：

However, critics say / the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors / before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a "buy and kill" tactic to simply close them down.

【2021 英語二 Text3】

單詞：

?threatening adj. 威脅的，脅迫的；危險的

?potential adj. 潛在的，可能的 n. 潛力，可能性

?competitor n. 競爭者，對手

?momentum n. 動力，勢頭

?tactic n. 策略，手段

分析：

??找謂語動詞

However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a "buy and kill" tactic to simply close them down.

??斷開長難句

①主句：However, critics say

• 簡化：critics say

②賓語從句：the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors

• 簡化：companies use deals

③時間狀語從句：before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a "buy and kill" tactic to simply close them down

• 簡化：before businesses have a chance

譯文：

但是批評人士表示，這些大公司利用這樣的交易，在最具威脅的潛在競爭對手有機(jī)會形成勢頭之前將他們買下來，在某些情況下這是“買了即殺”策略中的一部分，僅僅是為了讓他們關(guān)門。