All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £70m, a record for a sale by a single artist.
除两件作品外，其余全部售出，总成交额超过 7000 万英镑，创下单个艺术家作品拍卖的最高纪录。
the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
拍卖师终于以最高出价得到了这两件物品
Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.
戴维森的文章是最近几篇论述的一个例子，这些文章指出，我们如今之所以面临顽固的高失业率和中产阶级收入下降，主要原因是由于大萧条导致的需求大幅下降，但同时也是由于全球化和信息技术革命的进展，这两者正以前所未有的速度用机器或外国工人取代劳动力。
In the 1960s, the Italian artist Piero Gilardi began to create hundreds of bright, colorful foam pieces.
20世纪60年代，意大利艺术家 Piero Gilardi 开始创作数百件色彩鲜艳、丰富多彩的泡沫制品。
Those pieces included small beds of roses and other items as well as a few dozen "nature carpets"—large rectangles decorated with foam pumpkins, cabbages, and watermelons.
这些作品包括小床玫瑰和其他物品，以及几十件被称为"自然地毯"（nature carpets）的大型矩形装饰品，上面装饰着泡沫雕刻的南瓜、卷心菜和西瓜。
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。