2019-08-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Indonesia was a country of 17,000 islands, perched on the "Ring of Fire" at the edge of the Pacific, with 127 active volcanoes. They could erupt at any time, and the same sliding p

2019-08-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Third, it worries that a single service will create a "single point of failure". Doubling up will make the whole system safer.
第三，它担心单一服务将创造一个“单点故障”。增倍将使

2019-08-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ms Warren’s impulse to constrain nuclear policy is right. However, her proposal could well have perverse effects that make the world less stable. Many of America’s allies, such a

2019-08-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

John Flint’s decision to step down as chief executive of HSBC after just 18 months in the job took markets by surprise. His resignation was made “by mutual agreement wi

2019-08-23 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

Amna Nawaz: While nearly two dozen Democrats are competing for the presidential nomination, the party's strategy to win back the U.S. Senate is facing serious trouble. One issue,

2019-08-23 所属栏目:AP News in a Minute

This is AP News Minute.President Donald Trump took a swipe at Denmark's Prime Minister after canceling a planned visit to the country because the Prime Minister rebuffed his inter

2019-08-23 所属栏目:NPR News

Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigned today. That followed a scathing rebuke of his deputy prime minister, the far-right leader Matteo Salvini. Conte accused him of op

2019-08-23 所属栏目:CNN news

From California to Connecticut, at least 15 U.S. states have identified dozens of cases of lung disease and they might be connected to vaping. It's another term for inhaling va

2019-08-23 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

A former Danish prime minister has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump over a recent Twitter message about military spending. Lars Loekke Rasmussen said that defense willingness

2019-08-23 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

The way a person's eyes move can show whether or not the person recognizes someone else -- even if you try to hide it.That is what a team of international researchers reported rec

2019-08-23 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Scientists are working to stop a deadly virus that infects pigs.The virus is causing huge losses for farmers in China and other Asian countries.Many farmers have tried to contain A

2019-08-23 所属栏目:AS IT IS

News media are having difficulty reporting from Kashmir.The trouble started two weeks ago when India's central government took direct control of the territory. Since then, area ne

2019-08-23 所属栏目:BBC world news

BBC News. Hello, I'm Jerry Smit.Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has confirmed that senior officials from his government have been talking to members of the Trump administrat

2019-08-22 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

A new study suggests that the deadliest time for many hospital patients is not when they are in the operating room. Instead, it is the period when patients are recovering in the ho

2019-08-22 所属栏目:BBC环球慢速英语

Voice 1: When scientists first began to study DNA they could not see very much. The technology they used was not powerful enough. Later, technology improved. Technology could then

2019-08-22 所属栏目:BBC环球慢速英语

Voice 2: It is your Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Some people call DNA the building blocks of life. Everyone has his or her own set of DNA. It influences every part of a person&#3

2019-08-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In several countries—Britain, say, or Sweden—bank transfers are more or less instant.
在一些国家—如英国或瑞典—银行间转帐或多或少是即时的。The moment your w

2019-08-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周要闻Business
商业America officially categorised China as a currency manipulator for the first time in 25 years, after the yuan weakened past the psycholog

2019-08-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Nuclear doctrine
核战略思想Finger on the button
按钮上的手指If America ruled out using nuclear weapons first the world would not be any safer
如果美国首先排除使用核武器的可能

2019-08-22 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

William Brangham: Now: A Detroit artist is making beauty out of abandoned spaces. Special correspondent Mary Ellen Geist reports. It's part of our Canvas series.Mary Ellen Geis

2019-08-22 所属栏目:AP News in a Minute

This is AP News Minute.Police seized metal poles, bear spray and other weapons Saturday as hundreds of far-right and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators faced each other in Portland

2019-08-22 所属栏目:NPR News

Imagine shortages of food and fuel and medicine, ports in a state of gridlock. That is some of what could happen to the United Kingdom if it leaves the European Union with no deal

2019-08-22 所属栏目:CNN news

Chomolungma which translates to "Goddess Mother of the World" is the Tibetan name for Mount Everest.
Hundreds of climbers have died trying to reach the summit or getting back down

2019-08-22 所属栏目:BBC world news

BBC News. Hello, I'm Jerry Smit.Syria has accused Turkey of an act of aggression for sending a military convoy across the border into northwest Syria, where jihadists and insurgen

2019-08-22 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be an unmanned robotic lander.The aerospace company Astrobotic Technology told Reuters it expects