On August 25th Amazon announced that it would buy Twitch for $970m, an indication of the growing importance of video-streaming websites. Amazon was not the only one interested: a few months ago Google had been rumoured to be on the verge of offering $1 billion for the firm as well.
在8月25日,亚马逊宣布其将花费9.7亿美元收购Twitch,这显示了流媒体视频网站日益增长的重要性。
解析:这里的indication作为同位语指代前面的整个句子。很不错的用法,可以用到写作中。
亚马逊并不是唯一一家对Twitch感兴趣的公司;数月前,有传闻说谷歌也差点想以10亿美元收购这家公司。
解析:重点短语:be on the verge of doing sth. 差点做某事
have been rumored to; 据说...
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