A pair of rare stamps bearing a picture of Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen has sold for more than $700,000 at auction in Hong Kong.
两张稀有的印有中国民主主义的领导人孙中山先生图片的邮票，在香港的拍卖会上卖了70多万美元。Auction house Zurich Asia says the 1941 blue and black stamps were purchased by an anonymous phone bidder.
苏黎世亚洲拍卖行这两张1941年的蓝色和黑色邮票被一个匿名的电话投标人买走。They are rare because the picture was accidentally inverted.
他们稀有是因为图片被故意颠倒。
The stamps came from an original sheet of 50 stamps that had the error.
这些邮票是有错误的50张邮票中的原票。Zurich Asia says the price has set a new “world record for any Republic of China stamp”, referring to the period of 1912 to 1949 in China, after the last imperial dynasty lost power and before the communists took over.
苏黎世亚洲拍卖行说，这个价格创了一项新的中华民国邮票价格的记录，他指的是1912年到1949年期间的中国，即从清王朝破灭到共产党执政之前的中国。