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%。
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。
Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year – a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
鉴于目前的离婚率接近50%，这意味着美国每年有数百万起离婚案例——一种沟通失败的近乎流行病式的危机。
nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
近 50%的近期离婚是沟通失败引起的。
They found that after a surprise departure, the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%.
他们发现，在发生意外离职后，公司随后需要重新陈述收益的概率 nearly 增加了 20%。
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。