Not so much in an investment vehicle.

但投资工具却不太一样。

My favorite inedible function, though, is as an investment vehicle.

但是，我最喜欢的非食用功能，是用作一个投资工具。

The answer starts with money-market funds, low-risk investment vehicles that buy short-term government and corporate debt.

答案从货币市场基金开始，货币市场基金是购买短期政府和公司债券的低风险投资工具。

As venture capital has grown in popularity, venture capital investing has emerged as a major financial investment vehicle.

由于风险资本越来越受欢迎，风险资本投资已成为金融投资的重要手段。

Another proxy is the share-price performance of investment trusts, a type of publicly traded investment vehicle, which invest in private equity.

另一个指标是投资信托基金的股价表现，这是一种公开交易的投资工具，投资于私募股权。

In recent years, it has become increasingly popular for large corporations to form their own venture capital subsidiaries or investment vehicles.

近年来，大公司组建自己的风险资本子公司或投资机构的做法越来越普遍。

These two cryptocurrencies, which are by far the most popular and well-known, are likely to have practical real-world uses in the future beyond investment vehicles.

这两种加密货币是迄今为止最受欢迎和最知名的，未来可能在投资工具之外具有实际的实际用途。

According to Bank of America, interest costs now consume half of profits at firms where loans are held by the largest business-development companies, a type of investment vehicle.

据美国银行称，对于那些由最大的商业开发公司（一种投资工具）持有贷款的公司来说，利息成本现在消耗了一半的利润。

That's an investment vehicle that lets people invest in the whole stock market or a huge part of the stock market, as opposed to just investing in a few stocks.

这是一种投资工具， 可以让人们投资于整个股票市场或股票市场的很大一部分，而不是只投资于几只股票。

All right. So cities are using local government investment vehicles to buy up land that in the past would have been bought up by private developers. Is this strategy working?

好的。因此，城市正在使用地方政府投资工具购买过去本应由私人开发商购买的土地。这个策略有效吗？

So Spac stands for Special Purpose Acquisition Company. The name doesn't give much of a clue as to what it does, but it's basically a financial investment vehicle that has no operations. It's like a shell company.

所以 Spac 代表特殊目的收购公司。这个名字并没有提供太多关于它做什么的线索，但它基本上是一个没有操作的金融投资工具。这就像一个空壳公司。