I once sold a set of British furniture to a customer from Japan, but I didn't send him the furniture on time, which made me very embarrassed.

我曾经卖过一套英国家具给一个日本客户，但是我没有及时把家具寄给他，这让我很尴尬。

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Sheep once sold for as little as 50 cents each during a glut in the 1980s, but today some breeds of ewe can sell for as much as $200 a pop.

在20世纪80年代的一次供过于求中，羊的价格一度低至每只50美分，但如今一些品种的母羊可以卖到每只200美元。

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Cai Wei once sold cigarettes, ice-cream and worked as pedicab driver.

蔡伟卖过香烟、冰棍，也当过三轮车夫。

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This is what his voice sells, the way Sinatra once sold an implacable but supple kind of confidence.

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Koetsu once sold his house to raise the money 30 gold coins for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy.

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Harry Herbert, manager of two leading British racing syndicates, says that horses that once sold for a couple of hundred thousand pounds now go for half a million.

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