In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.
1924年，美国国家研究委员会派两名工程师去监督一系列实验，地点是芝加哥附近一家名为霍桑工厂的电话零件工厂。
If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.
例如，如果距离最初的影响力者仅隔两层关系的人表现出抵抗，那么这种变化的连锁反应就不会传播得很远，也不会影响到很多人。
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。
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。
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
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。