Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for ＄ 13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all.
亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高端杂货连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook为了收购WhatsApp信息服务，支付的金额甚至更多，而WhatsApp本身没有任何实体产品。
On their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.
仅凭我们自己，比如自带购物袋去杂货店或停止使用塑料吸管，这些行为几乎不会带来什么成效，也几乎不需要我们付出什么。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。