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

2019-08-22 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

2019-08-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ecology is a complicated thing. Given the facts that elephant damage often kills trees and bush fires often kill trees
生态是一个复杂的东西。鉴于大象的破坏以及丛林大火经常会导致树

2019-08-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho ("Pak Topo"), Indonesia's disaster spokesman, died on July 7th, aged 49. Three times the government asked him and he turned the job down, not wanting to becom

2019-08-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

India's growing prowess in finance contrasts with its weakness in manufacturing.
印度金融实力的增长与其制造业的疲软形成了鲜明对比。That is despite constant government interven

2019-08-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This made him useful as a fixer, though he was a driver first, and ran the same risks the journalists did when he strayed into presidential compounds or, as in the 1990s, into riot

2019-08-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Financial centres, like delicate plants, thrive in the right conditions.
金融中心就像是娇嫩的植物一样，在适宜的环境下繁荣生长。Those include a vibrant private sector, banks that d

2019-08-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those

2019-08-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

America’s immigration agency arrested 680 illegal migrant workers at seven factories in Mississippi. Some were released and told to appear at an immigration court; others wer

2019-08-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In practice, few optical systems other than eyeglasses rely on single lenses.
实际上，除了眼镜，很少有光学系统依赖于单透镜。Usually, different lenses with different properties are

2019-08-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
来源于《图书和艺术》版块Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏Big and basic
大而基础Why widely spoken languages have simpler grammar
为何广泛使用的语言语法更简单Stalin spoke Russi

2019-08-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To understand why these reasonable-sounding proposals should be rejected, consider what has happened to elephant numbers since CITES most recently authorised some legal trade, when

2019-08-15 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Politics
政治India’s Hindu-nationalist government unexpectedly ended the autonomy granted to Indian-administered Kashmir, splitting it in two, p

2019-08-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于《社论》版块Endangered specie
濒于灭绝的物种The elephant in the room
屋中象Now is not the time to liberalise the trade in endangered species
现在不是放开濒危物种贸

2019-08-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"Lens" is the Latin word for lentil. And it is indeed true that the shape of biconvex lenses—
“Lens”是拉丁词小扁豆的意思。双凸透镜的形状确实如此—the famili

2019-08-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Moreover, potential growth may be overstated. Subsidies make true demand hard to gauge. When delivery charges and service fees eventually rise, which they will have to if profits a

2019-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The only mouthwatering aspect of the delivery business is its potential size. According to Bernstein, a brokerage, almost a third of the global restaurant industry is made up of ho

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There had been one golden moment. It came in 1974, the year he started driving a taxi. Congo, then called Zaire, won the African Soccer Cup and hosted the Rumble in the Jungle, the

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Groen is a reluctant apostle of black magic. He once said of his efforts to expand beyond the Netherlands, “It’s horrible. We’ve spent 100 times more money in

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
来源于《商业》版块Schumpeter
熊彼特企业管理专栏Foodoo economics
食物经济学Meal delivery is anything but a tasty business
外卖绝不是一门美味的生意Even those who recoil