The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.
在2003年以来艺术市场迅速上涨之后，世界艺术市场已经有一段时间失去了动力。
In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms.
在艺术界，这意味着收藏家们远离了画廊和拍卖行。
Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.
到2008年11月为止，当代艺术的销售额下降了三分之二，在最过热的领域，降幅甚至接近90%。
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989.
目前艺术市场的低迷是自1989年底日本停止购买印象派作品以来最严重的一次。
The three Ds – death, debt and divorce – still deliver works of art to the market.
死亡、债务和离婚这三大因素仍然将艺术品带入市场。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。