本周，该机构向美国市值最高的5家科技公司询问了关于它们在过去10年里进行的多项小规模收购。

This week, it asked the five most valuable US tech companies for information about their many small acquisitions over the past decade.

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这是由于基金通常是靠对交易是否完成下注来赚钱，例如，如果预计收购会成功它们就买入目标公司，反之则卖空这些公司。

That's because funds typically make money by betting on whether transactions are completed, buying target firms if they expect acquisitions to succeed, for example, or shorting them if they do not.

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然而，即便果真想收购雅虎，它们一定具备这个实力吗？

But even if they want to buy Yahoo, can they afford it?

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