No one discovers a rarity by chance.

无论是谁都不会下子就发现件。

Turkey's cultural plans at home are coupled with an unprecedentedly bold campaign to bring back treasures that it believes were stolen, which now sit in Western museums.

土耳其国内文化布局伴场空前激烈战斗，目是要收回他们认为以前被盗走现在收藏于西方博物馆。

With the value of vintage bottles hitting hundreds of thousands of dollars, Chinese auction houses have begun scouring the country in search for valuable rarities.

由于古董茅台酒价格高达数十万美元，因此中国拍卖行已经开始在全国范围内寻找稀有。

Because of their quality and rarity, each collection is expected to fetch a high price.

由于这三种葡萄酒都是优质，所以每种都有望卖出高价。

Quinn was able to buy it for just $3.07.

奎因仅花3.07美元就拍下了这件。

There, he painted one great work of art after another.

在那里，他绘制出又艺术。

Imagine yourself in a museum filled with the world's oddities.

想象下，你在个陈放世界各地文物博物馆里。

I'd love to see it, especially all of the art.

我渴望睹其风采，尤其是所有艺术。

So it was a chance for the general public to go and see them.

因此，这是普通大众得以亲眼目睹这些机会。

Four chests opened on emeralds and pearls fashioned into collars, necklaces of matching yellow diamonds, and other marvelously-worked pieces resting on layers of loose jewels that reached the halfway mark in each chest.

散落地绿宝石上敞开四个箱子，串串珠，黄色钻石镶嵌而成项链，巧夺天工堆放在装满了半个箱子层层珠宝上。

That room represented the sacrifices of generations gone by who, by poverty or by policy, couldn't afford a curio of collectibles let alone a middle class house to put them in.

这个房间代表了几代人牺牲，无论是由于贫穷还是政策，他们买不起收藏，更不用说间放收藏中产阶级房子。

As a consequence of centuries of continuous construction and the amassing of art treasures, today the Louvre offers a world-class collection of both French and foreign art.

由于几世纪来不停地增建和搜罗艺术结果，今天卢浮宫提供了世界级法国艺术和国外艺术两方面收藏。

But just when I least expected it, I laid my hands on a wonder, a natural deformity I'd have to call it, something very seldom encountered.

但是，在绝对无意中，我却找到件奇，我应该说，找到件自然变形，这种东西最不容易碰见。

El Director Picasso helps select the vulnerable cargo, and waits nervously for news as a convoy carrying Spain's art treasures trundles to its safe haven.

毕加索帮忙挑选这些贵艺术，并焦急地等待这些西班牙宝被送去它们安全之地车队消息。

Filipe's head preserved in a jar of alcohol was exhibited as a traveling act before ending up on the desk of a newspaper editor.

菲利佩头被保存在个酒瓶子里，作为件旅行被展出，最后被放在个报纸编辑桌子上。

Later in the evening, when his mind had been set at rest about the bootjack, Laurie said suddenly to his wife, " Mrs. Laurence."

那天傍晚，劳里不再为脱靴器而烦恼了，艾米却在转来转去，摆放她那些新艺术，突然劳里对他妻子叫了声“劳伦斯太太”。

" The gentleman, no doubt, does not belong to these parts? The gentleman would like to see the curiosities of the church" ?

" 先生想必不是本地人吧？ 先生要不要看看教堂古迹？"

And one of the greatest of all Benin's art treasures gives us an insight into the way Benin saw the Portuguese.

这是贝宁艺术最了不起之使我们了解了贝宁人是怎样看待葡萄牙人。

It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years to make.

琥珀屋这件还镶嵌著黄金和珠宝, 全国最优秀艺术家用了是年时间才完成它。

Balenciaga, Halston, Schiaparelli, Fortuny, Worth, really special, rare pieces that are museum caliber, basically impossible to come by.

巴黎世家、霍斯顿、夏奇帕雷利、福特尼、沃思，这些都是博物馆级别稀世，基本上是可遇而不可求。