2020年10月8日 星期四

"Gerhard Richter Carried Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction"之 Carry 的意思?

 


Mega-Collector Ronald Perelman's $28 Million Gerhard Richter Carried Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction in Hong Kong. A museum in Japan snapped up the Richter work during the $88 million auction. Eileen Kinsella ...--


問: "Gerhard Richter Carried Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction"之 Carry 的意思?

 


Howard Chang

Oct 8, 2020, 9:09 PM (10 hours ago)
to me
在議事規程裡carried代表提案通過,例如
 The observation or declaration by the chair of a meeting that a member's motion has passed or attained the requisite majority vote, and is thus converted into a resolution of the whole meeting or organization.
同理,拍賣carried可能代表賣出



Hanching Chung hcsimonl@gmail.com

Oct 8, 2020, 11:14 PM (8 hours ago)
to Howard
早上查有可能二意思,一是持
撐或挑大樑。二是賣,直接有此意,不須如你迂迴解釋。
我早上想,我們應該每周選幾個動詞介紹。

3a〈重要なことを〉支え通す解説的語義
〈責任・義務などを〉果たす,〈重要性を〉担う,〈約束・目的などを〉遂行する,果たす,((略式))〈人を〉(集団などで)支える,サポート[カバー]する;〈犯罪が〉〈…の刑罰に〉値する,処せられる;〈保険などに〉入っている;((米))〈主旋律を〉歌う,〈パート・楽器を〉受け持つ


carry (KEEP IN OPERATION) 
verb [T] to support, keep in operation, or make a success:
We can no longer afford to carry people who don't work as hard as they should.
Luckily they had a very strong actor in the main part and he managed to carry the whole play (= make a success of it through his own performance).

語源
[原義は「車で運ぶ」]
carry (HAVE)
verb [T]
to have something as a part, quality or result:
All cigarette packets carry a government health warning.
Our cars carry a twelve-month guarantee.
His speech carried so much conviction that I had to agree with him.
In some countries, murder carries the death penalty.
I'm afraid my opinion doesn't carry any weight with (= influence) my boss.
US The salesclerk said they didn't carry (= have a supply of) sportswear.

carry weight
Also, carry authority or conviction. Exert influence, authority, or persuasion, as in No matter what the President says, his words always carry weight. Shakespeare combined two of these expressions in Henry VIII (3:2): "Words cannot carry authority so weighty." [c. 1600]


carry the day
Win, prevail, as in At auctions the wealthiest bidders usually carry the day[Late 1600s]

Definition of

  carry the day in English:

Be victorious or successful:the gusto of the amateur should carry the day

沒有留言: