模仿句子：I mean a few years ago, these were just terminals which gave you information and we had other alternatives like Reuters and things like that. But then it became batchy part of the trading process. 

翻译：几年前它们还仅仅就是个信息来源，我们用路透社之类的也一样，但是如今它们已经是交易过程中必不可少的一环了。