denied booking losses in their sale of assets.
否认在资产出售中确认损失。
The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008.
在艺术市场历史上一个世纪以来最长的牛市于 2008 年 9 月 15 日在伦敦苏富比以达明安·赫斯特的系列作品《Beautiful Inside My Head Forever》的拍卖画上句号。
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。
In the weeks and months that followed mr. Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable.
在赫斯特先生作品拍卖之后的几周和几个月里，任何形式的消费都变得极不时尚。
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。
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。