As he emerged at the top he looked the very spirit of evil breaking from its hole.

当他爬上山顶时，他看到邪恶的精灵正从洞里钻出来。

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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.

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。

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But there is a long way from rhetoric about the need for an emerging-economy candidate at the helm of the IMF to actually breaking the European stranglehold on the top job.

但是强调来自新兴经济体的候选人掌管IMF的必要性与真正打破欧洲人在这一职位上的垄断之间还有很长的距离要走。

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