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请把下面的汉语翻译成一句英文：

注：请在二个题目中任选一题。

1. 1999年11月，科技界闪耀的投资热潮是追捧那些尚未盈利且未经市场检验的公司，潜在“点击率”和“眼球率”成了这类企业的估值基础。

2. 现在，纳斯达克前100大上市公司看上去更像道琼斯工业股票平均价格指数(Dow Jones Industrial Average, 简称：道琼斯工业指数)成分股中那些稳重的上市公司了。

参考答案:

1. In November 1999, the technology world was ablaze with an investment frenzy that favored unprofitable, unproven companies that were valued for their potential 'clicks' and 'eyeballs.'

ablaze /əˈbleɪz/ adjective

not used before a noun

 

1: in the process of burning : on fire
▪ The house was ablaze.▪ Lightning set the building ablaze.

 

2: glowing with light, color, or emotion — often + with▪ The valley was ablaze with fall foliage.▪ Her eyes were ablaze [=blazing] with anger.

fren·zy /ˈfrɛnzi/ noun

plural fren·zies

 

[count] : great and often wild or uncontrolled activity
▪ the buying frenzy just before Christmas▪ The partygoers worked themselves (up) into a frenzy.▪ a frenzy of shopping — see also feeding frenzy

 

2. Now, the biggest 100 Nasdaq-listed companies look a lot more like their more sedate counterparts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.