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交给他们拍卖的客户支付近2亿美元的保证金。
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.
周三晚苏富比拍卖行并非只有贾科梅蒂的这件作品拍出天价。
The Giacometti was not the only work to fetch a high price at Sotheby’s on Wednesday evening.
2007年2月，苏富比拍卖行卖出了一批绘画品中的第一副，这些话是他们从赫斯特先生最早并最具知名度的收藏家查理斯•萨特齐手里买到的。
In February 2007 Sotheby’s sold the first of a batch of paintings it had bought from one of Mr Hirst’s earliest and best-known collectors, Charles Saatchi.
诸如英国苏富比与其竞争对手佳士德这样的拍卖行，其通常的交易都只是拍卖在过去就被买卖过的艺术品。
Auction houses like Sotheby's and its rival, Christie's, traditionally sell only art that has been bought and sold before.
苏富比拍卖行的动机能很容易地看出。
苏富比拍卖行一直都与赫斯特先生保持着亲密的关系。
拉苏尔引用了托尔斯泰《战争与和平》中的一行：“‘好人占大多数，恶人在数量上比好人少，但是恶人很有组织性，能够控制大多数。”’
Rasul quotes a line from Tolstoy's War and Peace: "' Good people make up the majority." Evil people are fewer in number, but they are very organised and can control the masses. '.
而苏富比（Sotheby's）和佳士德(Christie's)下周将在纽约举行拍卖。 两家拍卖行各有一幅估计售价超过100万美元的TyebMehta作品。
Sotheby's and Christie's have auctions in New York next week, each with a Tyeb Mehta that is expected to fetch more than $1m.
苏富比拍卖行16日以4544万瑞士法郎(约合人民币3亿元)高价拍出一枚重达24.78克拉的粉色钻石，刷新全球单颗钻石/珠宝拍价纪录。
A 24.78-carat pink diamond was sold at CHF45.44m (RMB300m) in an auction held by the Sotheby's Tuesday, breaking the record for any diamond and jewelry ever sold at an auction.
艺术品新兴市场的表现尤为不错：近期苏富比拍卖行举办的拉美艺术品拍卖会的成交额达2200万美元，创造了新记录。
Emerging markets are doing particularly well: Sotheby's recently held a sale of Latin American art that fetched a record $22m, including $5.6m for Raices (Roots) by Frida Kahlo (pictured above).
苏富比拍卖行隔壁的一个小店在9月15日的拍卖过后，很快就会开始销售赫斯特的出版物。
A small shop next door to Sotheby's will start selling Hirst prints shortly after the sale on September 15th.
当此举失败之后，他收购了规模较小的菲利普拍卖行(Phillips)，力图打破佳士得和苏富比在高端拍卖市场的双头垄断。
When he failed, he took over Phillips, a smaller auction house, with the aim of breaking the duopoly of Sotheby's and Christie's at the top of the market.
苏富比这场为期一周的拍卖会充分证明了中国人的购买力，对佳士得(Christie)和宝龙这两家拍卖行来说，这也是好事一桩。
A good week for Sotheby's has amply demonstrated China's spending power - a boon for Christie's and Bonham's too.
数字5象征“五福”，即长寿、富贵、康宁、好德与善终，据苏富比拍卖行说。
The number five represents the "five blessings" of old age, wealth, health, virtue and peaceful death, according to Sotheby's.
一本影响了生物学家查尔斯·达尔文的名为《美国鸟类》的书日前在苏富比拍卖行被拍出了天价--730万英镑，问鼎世界上最昂贵的书籍头衔。
A stunning book by the wildlife artist who influenced Charles Darwin sold for a world-record ?7.3million last night.
敢不从命：如今，中国藏家在苏富比顾客当中所占比例已经达到了35%，有鉴于此，各家拍卖行正在你追我赶，力图更好地了解中国藏家的需求。
Your wish is our command : Chinese collectors now make up 35% of Sotheby's customers, which has auction houses scrambling to understand better what they want.
苏：妈妈，桑迪在吃蛋糕，我也要一块。母亲：行啊，苏。
Sue: Mum! Sandy's eating a cake. I want one, too Mother: All right, Sue.
摘要：在精品葡萄酒拍卖之前，纽约苏富比拍卖行对世界上最大块的白松露进行了拍卖。
ABSTRACT: Sotheby's had auctioned the world's biggest white truffle in New York this weekend, immediately before its fine wine auction.
《多拉·马尔与猫》这幅画在纽约苏富比拍卖行举行的一场以印象主义和现代艺术为内容的春季拍卖会期间被一名匿名买主买走。
Dora Maar au Chat went to an anonymous buyer during a spring auction of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's in New York.
苏育群会长、郑雅宁秘书长会见来访的台北进出口商业同业公会秘书长黄俊国一行。
Su Yuqun, Chairman of CCPIT Xiamen and Zheng Yaning, Secretary-General of CCPIT Xiamen met with Huang Junguo, Secretary-General of Importers and Exporters Association of Taipei.
摘要： 从六月中旬至下旬，苏富比和哈特拍卖行均将推出大批珍惜香槟佳酿和勃艮第名酒。
ABSTRACT: Sotheby's and Hart Davis Hart will be offering rare collections of top Champagne alongside a cornucopia of other fine wine at their sales in late June.
福建古代四大名医为首的苏颂，对医药学的重要贡献之一为：负责编写了与《嘉祐本草》相辅相行的本草著作——《本草图经》。
Su Song, the first man of four famous TCM Doctor in Ancient Fujian made significant contribution in medicine and pharmacology.
如果是一名女性，她是那种不错的女孩，本来希望去苏富比拍卖行(So thebys)工作。
If female, she is a nice girl who had rather hoped to work for Sotheby's.
去年，苏富比拍卖行专门针对亚洲市场举行了首次私人艺术品销售展卖。
Last year Sotheby's held its first exhibition for the private sale of art specifically for the Asian market.
去年，苏富比拍卖行专门针对亚洲市场举行了首次私人艺术品销售展卖。
Last year Sotheby's held its first exhibition for the private sale of art specifically for the Asian market.
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