carat gold

基本解釋

The suit, which has 9 18-carat gold and diamond buttons, was made with 5000 individual stitches, equivalent to ￡14 a stitch.
該西裝花了80個(gè)小時(shí)才制作完成，共縫了5000個(gè)針腳，相當(dāng)于每個(gè)針腳14英鎊。
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Willard Wigan, a British sculptor, has spent 3 months painstakingly carving US President Obama and his family into the eye of a 24-carat gold needle, according to the UK's Daily Mail.
據(jù)英國(guó)《每日郵報(bào)》報(bào)道，英國(guó)一位名叫威勒·維根的雕刻家最近花了3個(gè)月的時(shí)間，在一枚24克拉黃金針的針眼里刻出了美國(guó)總統(tǒng)奧巴馬一家四口人的雕像。
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The "Minted" cocktail -- a vanilla and chocolate Martini on sale at the Mint Bar in central Dublin's Westin Hotel -- includes vanilla-infused vodka, 200-year-old cognac and flakes of 23-carat gold.
目前，這種酒在都柏林市中心的威斯汀酒店內(nèi)的薄荷酒吧里出售。這種酒的成分包括加入了香草的伏特加酒、有200年歷史的干邑白蘭地以及純度為23K的黃金薄片等。

The repairs included replacing the torch and covering it with twenty-four carat gold.
Their price has remained stable. "The main difference I have seen is people are moving from 22 carat gold jewelry to diamond jewelry, maybe what they say is true is diamonds are forever, and diamonds always is a lady's best friend,".

Not only are Chinese purchasing increasing amounts of gold, they prefer pure 24-carat gold.
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Samsung says it will offer an 18-carat gold phone especially for the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.
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