Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
几周之内，世界上最大的两家拍卖行苏富比和佳士得不得不向那些将作品委托给他们拍卖的客户支付近2亿美元的保证金。
Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.
几乎所有接受采访的专家都表示，目前最大的问题不是需求不足，而是缺乏值得出售的好作品。
This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.
现在这个问题摆在格洛丽亚·麦克肯齐面前，她是一位84岁的寡妇，最近才从佛罗里达州她那间小而铁皮屋顶的房子中走出来，领取了历史上最大的未分割彩票头奖。
Equally, there is a sense that the travails of commuters in the South East, many of whom will face among the biggest rises, have received too much attention compared to those who must endure the relatively poor infrastructure of the Midlands and the North.
同样地，人们有一种感觉，即东南部通勤者的困境，其中许多人将面临最大的票价上涨，相比那些不得不忍受中 Midlands 和北方相对落后基础设施的通勤者，受到了过多的关注。
Their teams of engineers stayed on, making them two of the many “ acqui-hires”that the biggest companies have used to feed their great hunger for tech talent.
他们的工程师团队继续留任，使他们成为众多"acqui-hires"中的两家，这是最大的公司用来满足他们对科技人才的巨大需求的方式。
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。