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。
auction houses’ favorites
拍卖行的最爱
For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.
在艺术爱好者的时间、注意力和金钱面前，古典乐器演奏家不仅要与歌剧院、舞蹈团、剧院公司和博物馆竞争，还要与20世纪伟大古典音乐家的录音表演竞争。
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.
但当谈到他们的房屋时，那是一个讲求常识和相信少即是多的时期。
In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses – usually around 1,200 square feet – than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
20世纪30年代，弗兰克·洛伊·莱特开始建造更为谦逊和高效的住宅——通常约为1200平方英尺——这比他在19世纪90年代和20世纪初设计的那些宽敞的两层住宅要小得多。
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。