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2010年真题解析Passage One

1.bull: 1)牛2）（文中含义）牛市

2.run: 时期，一段时间

* bull run: 牛市期

3.dramatic: 戏剧化的

4.note: 1.（文中含义）气氛 2. 笔记

* on a dramatic note: 戏剧性地

5.all but （two pieces）: 除....之外的所有东西

6.to fetch: 1）. （文中含义）售得（若干价钱）

*The painting is expected to fetch at least $20 million.人们认为这幅画可以卖到至少2000万美元。 2）去（某个地方）取回

*Shannon went upstairs to fetch some blankets.香农去楼上取来一些毯子。

7.auction：（名词）拍卖

* The house was sold at auction.房子拍卖出售。

auctioneer: 拍卖师

8.to call out bids; 喊出拍卖的报价

9.to file for sth：1）（文中含义）(法律上正式）提出申请

* The Morrisons have filed for divorce：莫里斯夫妇已经提出离婚。

# to file for bankruptcy: 提出破产的申请

# file a complaint/ lawsuit (against somebody)针对sb提出投诉/诉讼 Mr Genoa filed a formal complaint against the department. Genoa先生正式投诉了这个部门。

2）排队前行

* We began to file out into the car park. 我们开始排队进入停车场。* The mourners filed past the coffin. 吊唁者排队经过棺材。

The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ￡70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street,

Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy. 在2008年9月15日伦敦苏富比拍卖行举行的“在我心中，美丽永恒”拍卖会上，Damien Hirst的56部作品成功售出，随着这些作品的售出，艺术品市场一个世纪以来最长的牛市戏剧性地落幕了。所有作品中只有两件没有售出，销售额超过了7，000万英镑，创造了单个艺术家的拍卖纪录。这是最后的胜利。（因为）就在拍卖师喊出报价的时候，纽约华尔街上历史最悠久的银行之一雷曼兄弟申请破产。

10.momentum: （名词）势头，力量

#gain/gather momentum 集聚力量，发力

* The campaign for reform should start to gather momentum in the new year.改革活动应该在新年发力。

* Governments often lose momentum in their second term of office.一般政府在第二任期内会失去势头。

11.peak: 1）顶点2）（文中含义）巅峰

# at one’s peak: 在巅峰状态

12.to reckon: 1）. 认为＝think

* Do you reckon he'll agree to see us？你觉得他会同意我们吗？

2）（文中含义）估算，估计

* We reckon that sitting in traffic jams costs us around $9 billion a year in lost output。我们估算在交通堵塞中的损失达每年90亿美元。

13.A is double B : A是B的两倍

14.ego: (名词) 自我

15.greed: （名词）贪婪

greedy: 贪婪的

16.controversy: （名词）争议

controversial: 有争议的

17.to match: （动词）1）.（文中含义）与….相当

* His strength is matched by his intelligence. 他的力量与智慧相当。

2）与….相配

We painted the cabinets green to match the rug. 我们把壁橱油漆成绿色和地毯相匹配。

* Do you think this outfit matches? 你觉得这套衣服搭配得当吗？

注意：我们不说“matches to” or “matches with another”. 而是说“one thing matches another” or “two things match”.

The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm – double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other