Wirecard might still be one of Europe's most feted tech firms , were it not for a small band of sceptics .
1.请问一句话为何有两个动词，be 和 were？
he pieced together a picture ofa firm built on fraud , with fake customers, invented profits and cash balancesthat looked flimsier the closer you got.
2.请问 the closer 是连词吗？
1. were it not for=if it were not for 是一个带有虚拟语气的状语从句
2. 我感觉句子本来应该是as you got closer 也就是一个结果状语从句 不过进行了一个倒装转化
