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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

plz help me to understand phrases~~^^

0ohh..it's my second post 02br
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00i'm who have studied English by myself. so i've encountered so many dibacles in reading an article.02br
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00so i will be very happy if you help me.02br
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00here are ma questions...02br
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00If both houses put up a brilliant show and posted fantastic financial scores, 01font00on the buyers' side02font00, the performance was less impressive.02br
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00in this sentence, i can't understand what "on the buyers' side" means.02br
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00next02br
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00Measured by the previous price, the $2.28 million that the study cost was modest, and the $1.27 million commanded by the admirably terse sketch of "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire"01font00 sold two lots down, absurdly low.02font02br
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00at thist sentence, i don't know that "sold two lots down" means.02br
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00and..next02br
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00By contrast, another work on paper by a famous Impressionist later 01font00hit the roof02font00. Renoir's pastel of two young sisters gazing at a book became the most expensive drawing 01font00by the artist ever auctioned02font00 as it brought an astonishing $5.02 million.02br
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00at here, plz understand me two phases "hit the roof" and "by the artist ever auctioned" means.02br
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00i know "hit the roof" means sb becomes very angry. but it doesn't make it sense.02br
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00so many questions...02br
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00next is..02br
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00At times, they had such fun that they either got carried away to a degree that seemed unwarranted by what Christie's was offering, or on the contrary, 01font00took their eye off the ball02font00 when they would have been better advised not to do so.02br
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00here is "took their eye off the ball". 02br
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00i can't understand it, either.02br
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00at last...02br
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01font00There are no Mellons left around these days. Seurat's masterpiece dropped dead without anyone taking the blindest bit of notice.02font02br
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05000 i can't understand whole meanig of this sentence....help me...02br
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00esp "taking the blindest bit of notice" what the hell does it mean..?02br
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00my god, i have another one.02br
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00the soundest recipe02br
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00what does it mean??02br
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00thanx for ur reading and answering 051010id611id1
  

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0 on the buyer's side: from the point of views of buyers, in what regards the buyers02br 02br 00 Read this this way: 02br 00 became / the most expensive drawing by the artist / ever auctioned02br 00 not the way you grouped things together02br 02br 00 hit the roof: (the price) exploded, went very high02br 02br 00 took their eye off the ball: lost focus (as in baseball, tennis)02br 02br 00 There are no Mellons left around these days: there are no rich people interested in art like the Mellon family once were 0-

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0 on the buyer's side: from the point of views of buyers, in what regards the buyers02br
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00 Read this this way: 02br
00 became / the most expensive drawing by the artist / ever auctioned02br
00 not the way you grouped things together02br
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00 hit the roof: (the price) exploded, went very high02br
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00Measured by the previous price, the $2.28 million that the study cost was modest, and the $1.27 million commanded by the admirably terse sketch of "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire"01font00 sold two lots down, absurdly low.02font02br
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00at thist sentence, i don't know tha
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