Wirecard might still be one of Europe's most feted tech firms , were it not for a small band of sceptics .
1.请问一句话为什么有两个动词，be 和 were？
he pieced together a picture of
a firm built on fraud , with fake customers, invented profits and cash balances
that looked flimsier the closer you got.
2.请问 the closer 是连词吗？
