1. At its own auction the following evening, Sotheby’s achieved a far more respectable total of 22.6 million with fees, although it was just above the low estimate of 21.8 million based on hammer prices. Of the 44 lots offered, 15 did not sell, or 34 percent.

2. The maker of Post-it notes and Scotch tape authorized a $12 billion stock repurchase program in February, replacing its current $7.5 buyback program. 3M's (MMM, Fortune 500) move followed its announcement late last year that it intends to spend $10 billion on acquisitions and repurchase up to $22 billion of shares over the next four years.

3. 这些弊端是很现实的，但是也有很多方法来回避它们。比如说，你可以利用你的谋生工作向雇主展示你努力工作的诚意。并且你也可以在工作之余继续找其他的好工作。

4. “Cooling measures [are] the most important issue affecting the [residential] property market in Hong Kong,” says Thomas Lam, head of valuation at Knight Frank. “That is why all the major institutional plans are looking at the office market in the past two or three years.”

5. 在领英平台上高频出现是找工作的关键。你知道这点，你们经理也知道这点。你的经理兴许还知道你知道这点。所以她会从开始关注周一你的个人简介只是有个大概框架，到周五你增加了工作经历，新人脉，状态更新，推荐信慢慢被顶起，别一夜之间从0涨到500那样太明显了Foss提醒道。

6. 10. Taitung, Taiwan-The footbridge which connects small, uninhabited Sanxiantai Island to Taitung is celebrated for its eight looping arches. This coastal county is in Lonely Planet's list of top destinations in Asia to visit in 2016.

应用

1. Think you’ve had some bad job interviews this year? This survey is guaranteed tcheer you up (unless you happen tbe part of it). When staffing firm OfficeTeam asked 600 managers across North America tdescribe the most embarrassing interview blunders they had seen in 2014, here’s what they said.

2. 7月，美国国家航空航天局(NASA)宣布发现了一颗类地行星，激发了中国人的想象。

3. There is a salary gap of nearly 22 per cent between male and female graduates three years after they finished their courses, $90,000 compared to $73,000. That gap had been 17 per cent whenstudents first graduated, so thisdifference has widened over time(see chart).

4. 就在一个月前，近200个国家的政府在巴黎达成了一项新的气候协议，目标是阻止全球气温比工业化前水平上升2摄氏度以上，最好限制在1.5摄氏度以内。

5. 愿节日的愉快伴你一生。

6. As a measure of that fall, 10 works have sold at auction for more than $100 million since 2004, and all of them were made by modern or contemporary artists in the past 120 years. Older paintings have seen their value, in relative terms, level off or decline. The trend was plain to see in recent weeks, as London’s auction houses tried to find buyers for their latest tranche of old masters. As has been the case in recent years, there were few works by major names.

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1. The report said there were now 594 dollar billionaires in China, putting China ahead of the United States' 535. However, none of China's super-rich make it into the global top 20.

2. 当他饰演《活力王子》中"威尔"一角时，前三季的薪水都被制作方扣除了70%！三年之后他才拿到全额工资。碰巧的是，主题曲的第一句就如同是按他的真实经历所写："这故事就是说/我翻腾的生活/如何大起大落"。只不过在现实中，那个"（他）爱闹事的邻居"是美国国税局。

3. Investigators have arrested one youth and one 18-year-old in connection to the July 9th shooting death, which occurred inside a Jamestown Cres. home.