As Somali pirates become ever more audacious, they are regularly portrayed in the press as vicious aggressors, taking innocent people hostage, only to auction them off at vast ransoms.

But private equity and the growing number of banks doing business in China are all competing for the best talent, leading to the phenomenon of serial traders who constantly auction themselves off to the highest bidder.

然而在中国经营的银行越来越多，他们和私募基金一起争夺最好的人才，甚至出现了一种不断把自己拍卖给出价最高的银行的连环跳现象。

Dan: Well, then can you promise me that when you're up there being yourself as they auction you off, that you won't go for anything less than a million dollars?-

promise:允诺，保证那你能答应我，当你一个人在那的时候。auction:拍卖million:一百万dollar:美元如果他们把你拍卖了，千万不能少于一百万？system:（人体内数个器官组成的）系统；

Auction sth off; sell ( esp surplus or unwanted goods) by auction something left after other parts have been taken away.

拍卖掉（尤指剩余的或多余的物资）其余部分被取走剩余的部分。

It's different from Fed policy in that they set up a certain amount of money and auction that off to the highest bidder.

这与美联储政策不同，因为他们设定了一定数量的连出价最高的投标者，都无法触及的货币拍卖。

as they auction you off,

如果他们把你拍卖了，

They hired me to auction it off.

他们雇我把它卖出去

And he hired us to auction it off for him.

他雇了我们替他拍卖。

The urgency of the problem is underlined by the fact that US Federal Communications Commission and similar agencies in other countries have already started to auction off frequencies close to the 23.8 GHz frequency to future 5G network providers.

美国联邦通信委员会和其他国家的类似机构已开始拍卖23.8千兆赫附近的频率，以供未来的5G网络服务商使用，使得这一问题非常紧迫。

The Dallas Safari Club plans to auction off the right to shoot and kill a black rhinoceros in the African nation of Namibia, in order to raise money to protect the endangered species.

达拉斯狩猎俱乐部计划拍卖其在非洲国家纳米比亚射杀一只黑犀牛的许可，其目的是为了保护频临灭绝的物种而集资。

Paul Klemperer, one of the economists behind the 3G mobile spectrum auctions in the UK, has published a paper explaining how the bank might auction off loans secured against different qualities of collateral.

英国3g移动频段拍卖会背后的经济学家之一保罗克伦佩雷尔（paul klemperer）发表了一篇论文，提出英国央行也许该如何拍卖以不同质量抵押资产获得的贷款。

The Internet lurches forward in spasms of business model discovery, as when Google figured out how to auction off search-targeted advertising slots, leaving banner advertisements behind.

当互联网在探索商业模式的阵痛中蹒跚前行时，谷歌即已超越横幅广告模式，掌握了如何拍卖搜索内容定向广告块的诀窍。

The Russian government plans to intensify its investment and development on the upstream market in 2005, particularly oil/ gas development in East Siberia, and to auction off 38 oil fields in the region.

俄政府将在2005年加强对上游市场的投资开发，特别是东西伯利亚地区的油气开发，并准备拍卖该地区的38个油田。

Efforts by hackers called the Shadow Brokers to auction off NSA computer code used to break into foreign networks were an attempt to show Washington how vulnerable it was, he added.

他说，这伙叫做影子经纪人的黑客要将美国国家安全局用于入侵外国网络的计算机代码拍卖，其用意是要让华盛顿看看，这些代码有多不堪一击。

To pay for it, Mr Obama would raise taxes on the rich and on corporations, cut wasteful programmes and auction off permits to emit carbon dioxide.

为了给这项草案筹集所需资金，奥巴马需要对富人和公司征收更多的税收，消减耗资浪费的政府预案，并拍卖二氧化碳的排放许可证。

But until someone tries to auction off hand-drawn airplane sketches from the early 1900s, we may never know where the patent papers took off to.

但是如果不是在20世纪初，有人试图拍卖手绘飞机草图，我们永远也不会知道这个专利文件去哪儿了。

A report from China's state-run Xinhua news service said the government would auction off 2000 iPhone 6s it had seized in the southern city of Shenzhen.

中国官方媒体新华社的一则报道称，政府将拍卖在南部城市深圳查获的2000部iPhone6。

A more straightforward plan would be strongly to encourage banks to auction off tranches of toxic assets without providing subsidies to the purchasers.

一个更直接的计划是大力鼓励银行拍卖不良资产，但不向收购方提供补贴。

So they agreed to auction off it's a little bit different than a it's a little different from an ordinary monetary policy.

所以，他们同意将财产拍卖掉，这有一点儿不同于，有一点儿与，普通的货币政策不同。

Mr Obama wants to auction off, rather than give away, permits to emit carbon dioxide.

奥巴马想对二氧化碳的排放许可进行拍卖，而不是采取分发的方式。

He's decided to auction off his possessions on Ebay.

他决定在易趣上拍卖他的财产。