在新加坡，人们如果要搬家了，会把一些多余的物品整理干净，分门别类，摆放在自家的客厅里，开一个“拍卖会”。这个拍卖会不像电视上的拍卖会那样兴师动众，要有拍卖师的一锤定音，而是一种轻松随意的旧货交易活动。我的房东金阿姨将移民到美国去，所以，要拍卖的东西比别人 In Singapore, if people are going to move, they will put some extra items in order to sort them out, put them in their own living room, and open an “auction.” This auction would not be as sensational as auctions on television, and it would be a hammer for the auctioneer, but it would be a casual junk sale activity. My landlord, Jin Ayi, will immigrate to the United States. Therefore, things to be auctioned are better than others.