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Question

Any politician that gets 70 million votes has tapped into something larger than himself, larger than even me as much as I hate to admit it.
任何一个能获得七千万选票的政客，他所象征的含义早已超过了自身，当然也超过了我 尽管我不愿意承认

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问：
1. tap into something官方解释是什么

2. 为什么是用as much as？追究起来两者并不相关联啊，要我的话会用and或so，所以谁能帮我解释一下啊

Answer 1

接入，接进

as much as 有尽管的意思，and ,so不能充分表达这个意思。

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Answer 2

tap into进入something某物  tap into something进入某物

as much as 有尽管的意思，and ,so不能充分表达这个意思。

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