When I was in a safe place, I loaded my pistols, this time with dry powder.

我爬到安全的地方，把手枪换上干火药。

For me it's the Amchur powder, the dried mango powder in it.

对我来说是 Amchur 粉，里面有芒果干粉。

Last year this " dry powder" was just shy of $300bn in America alone (see chart 3).

去年，仅在美国，这种“干火药”就接近 3000 亿美元（见图 3）。

The fate of the $1.3trn waiting to be invested by private-equity firms, known as " dry powder" , is also uncertain.

等待被私募股权公司投资的 1.3 兆美元（称为“干火药”）的命运也不确定。

In America alone their collective " dry powder" hit $290bn in the last quarter, twice the average from 2016 to 2020.

仅在美国，他们的集体“干火药”在上个季度就达到了 2900 亿美元，是 2016 年至 2020 年平均水平的两倍。

There will be no shortage of institutions with eyes on the $300bn of venture-capital dry powder waiting to be ploughed into startups.

不乏关注 3000 亿美元风险投资干粉等待投入初创企业的机构。

The study, by researchers from Seoul, South Korea, involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night.

这项研究由韩国首尔的研究人员进行，研究人员用白天和晚上挤出的牛奶制成的奶粉喂老鼠。

In America such funds sit on some $340bn in dry powder, a pile which could swell to twice that amount with the use of leverage.

在美国，此类基金坐拥约 3400 亿美元的干火药，如果使用杠杆， 这一数额可能会膨胀到两倍。

Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley says the Ukrainians are essentially keeping their powder dry while working their way through lethal defenses that the Russians have had months to set up.

参谋长联席会议主席马克·米利说，乌克兰人基本上是在保持弹药储备的同时，努力突破俄罗斯人几个月来建立的坚固防御。

Almost half of that has yet to be deployed, leaving Europe's venture capitalists with plenty of " dry powder" to tide over startups even if the crisis drags on.

其中近一半尚未部署，即使危机持续，欧洲的风险资本家仍有大量“干粉”来渡过初创企业。

Although the pace of fundraising has slowed since its peak in 2016, not least to allow the vehicles to deploy their copious dry powder, the government's role has been entrenched.

尽管筹款步伐自 2016 年达到顶峰以来有所放缓，尤其是为了让车辆能够部署大量干火药， 但政府的角色已经确立。

It includes dried, powdered Piperaceae berries, known as black and white pepper, as well as one of the strangest and most addictive spices in the world: Zanthoxylum simulans, more commonly known as Sichuan pepper.

这个词也表示晒干磨成粉的胡椒浆果，即黑胡椒或白胡椒，以及世界上最奇怪、最让人上瘾的香料之一：野花椒，通常被称为“四川辣椒”。

Bankers may have to wait to see venture capital's dry powder hit their deposit accounts—after all, in the last quarter, the amount of money flowing into startups globally fell by two-thirds.

银行家们可能不得不等待风险资本的干火药进入他们的存款账户——毕竟，在上个季度， 流入全球初创企业的资金数量下降了三分之二。

Andrea Auerbach of Cambridge Associates, an investment firm, says she is " most concerned about returns being competed away in the upper regions of the market, where there are fewer managers with a lot more dry powder" .

投资公司 Cambridge Associates 的安德里亚·奥尔巴赫 (Andrea Auerbach) 表示，她“最担心的是回报率在高端市场区域被竞争，那里的经理人更少， 干火药更多” 。

At the start of 2020, private equity firms held $1.45tn in what they call " dry powder" , and what the rest of us call " cash" : piles of money sitting around awaiting investment. Just imagine what you could do with it.

2020年初，私人股本公司持有1.45万亿美元的“干粉”，以及我们其余人所称的“现金”：有成堆的闲置资金等待投资，想象一下你能用它来做什么。

PitchBook data suggest that our five private whales are sitting on a combined $50bn or so; the four sovereign investors hold their numbers close to their chest but their dry powder could be of a similar order of magnitude.

PitchBook 数据表明， 我们的五家私人鲸鱼坐拥总计 500 亿美元左右的资产；这四位主权投资者将他们的数字藏在胸前， 但他们的干火药可能具有相似的数量级。