Auction houses like Sotheby's and its rival, Christie's, traditionally sell only art that has been bought and sold before.

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。

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What we have taken and left is not only art, but piece of life.

无论是谁，带走的和留下的不仅仅是艺术，还有人生。

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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

舞蹈是唯一的一种，以人类本身为全部内容和素材的艺术。

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This was the only art education he ever had.

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The realization of desire for this young Yeats is something only possible in art.

对年轻的叶芝来说这种愿望的,实现只有在艺术里才可能。

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The only purpose of the work of art is to afford aesthetic bliss.

艺术作品的唯一目的是提供美学极乐。

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Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion?

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The only art is a tchotchke from one of our companies or a poster from one of our companies.

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Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Christie's plans to offer at least 30 online-only art sales this year, up from just seven last year.

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