auction block

1. If a company stays on the auction block long enough, rumors about its fate will eventually begin to repeat themselves.
   如果一家公司长时间陷入被挂牌出售的处境，那么关于其命运的各种传言最终就会卷土重来。
2. And see if you can buy on the auction block.
   看看你是否能在拍卖会上买。
3. They thought the lash would save them, and they used the lash; or the knife, or the gallows, or the auction block.
   他们以为鞭笞刑罚可以救他们，于是他们就用鞭子，或用刀，或用绞刑架，或用拍卖台。
4. Tomorrow$ 30 million Ohio bonds will go on the auction block.
   明天将有三千万美元的俄亥俄州公债要拍卖。
5. After reading about the online sale of a struggling town in Humboldt County, Young decided to put his wife and kids on the auction block.
   杨读到了关于网上拍卖洪堡县一个处境困难的镇子的事情，于是决定把妻儿送进拍卖场。
6. Chinese auction houses that once specialized in traditional ink paintings are now putting contemporary experimental artworks on the block.
   一贯专营传统水墨画的中国拍卖行，如今也开始在拍卖作品中加入当代实验艺术作品。

noun

1. a platform from which an auctioneer sells
   1. they put their paintings on the block

   Synonym:    block