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。
But Edward Dolman, Christie’s chief executive, says: “I’m pretty confident we’re at the bottom.
但佳士得首席执行官爱德华·多尔曼表示：‘我相当有信心，我们现在已经触底了。’
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。