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The auction began at 10 am on March 29th on Taobao.com, a Chinese website for online shopping operated by the Alibaba Group. The online auction lasted for a period of 24 hours, ending at 10 am the next day. The auction items include a 117,000-square-

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's some newly discovered artworks up for auction this weekend in Massachusetts. They're by Andy Warhol, who died more than three decades ago. We don't know how much the works are worth until they sell, but we do know their val

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An oil painting said to be the work of famous Chinese artist Xu Beihong sold at auction for more than 70 million yuan in an auction last year. However, a group of painters recently have claimed that's their school work years ago as students in China

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During the recent State Council meeting, Chinese policymakers vowed to boost efforts to build more subsidized apartments for low-income residents. The policy emphasizes that migrant workers in cities across the country are encouraged to apply for low

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今天我们要学的词是auction。 Auction, 是拍卖的意思。美国的拍卖网站eBay 上无奇不有。就在前几天，Two sisters launched an auction to sell a piece of cereal that resembles the outline of Illinois, 两姐妹在eBay上拍卖

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今天我们要学的词是auction。 Auction, 是拍卖的意思。美国的拍卖网站eBay 上无奇不有。就在前几天，Two sisters launched an auction to sell a piece of cereal that resembles the outline of Illinois, 两姐妹在eBay上拍卖

VOA常速英语2008年-South African Art Fetches Top Prices at Auction

By Catherine Drew London 04 February 2008 The international auction house Bonhams has held a sale of South African art in London that achieved record prices for a number of works. The auction house says this marks a coming of age for South African ar

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