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.

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。

youdao

But under an emerging deal, Israel would extend the settlement freeze for two months in exchange for American security guarantees.

但根据一项成形中的协议，以色列将把定居点暂缓令延长两个月以换取美国提供安全保证。

youdao

On November 23rd the European Commission laid out three approaches for issuing Eurobonds, two of which imply mutual guarantees.

11月23日，欧洲委员会拿出了发行欧洲债券的三种思路，其中两种都暗示共同担保。

youdao

"We do not yet have the critical guarantees of governance and of development capacity the other two legs of counterinsurgency,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The personal liability, perhaps the largest of its kind, stems from two guarantees Stern pledged as part of a 2007 shopping mall deal that went awry.

FORBES: The Man Who Personally Owes Citigroup $126 Million

Two-year guarantees for senior producers are back after falling out of vogue for two years.

FORBES: Wall Street's Hiring Spree

It sells with two-year guarantees, and offers much the biggest regional network of any Russian computer firm: 250 dealers across the country, full-service centres in 60 cities.

ECONOMIST: Russian computers