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。
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 three Ds – death, debt and divorce – still deliver works of art to the market.
死亡、债务和离婚这三大因素仍然将艺术品带入市场。
works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying
艺术品总体上已经不再流行，因此 1 不值得购买。
The tactic never really works.
这种策略从未真正奏效过。
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。