2020-02-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He cared about being the best, winning games. Simple and plain. His obsession could make him by turns hustling, mean and dejected. When he joined the Lakers, his dream team, in 199

2020-02-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The average emission-intensity of power generation in 2019
根据IEA，2019年发电所产生的的平均排放强度was "lower than all but the most efficient gas-fired power plants", according t

2020-02-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Four prosecutors who recommended a stiff prison term for Roger Stone, a confidant of Mr Trump who has been convicted on charges relating to the Mueller probe, resigned from the cas

2020-02-28 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A general election in Ireland produced a shock win for Sinn Fein, formerly the political wing of the IRA, a terrorist group. The party to

2020-02-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Commodity exports and aid inflows raise demand for local currencies, making them stronger.
大宗商品出口和援助流入增加了对本币的需求，使本币更加强势。Governments fear depreciation

2020-02-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In 1979 an IMF negotiator met Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's socialist president, and urged him to weaken the country's currency.
1979年，一名IMF谈判代表会见了坦桑尼亚的社会党

2020-02-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He perfected his own works of art: the jab-step-and-pause, using unexpected footwork to pass the defender, and the fadeaway, shooting while he jumped high and backwards from the ba

2020-02-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Things are even worse in technology. In Britain only one in five computer-science university students is a woman—a big problem at a time when the World Economic Forum predic

2020-02-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The OECD points out that some of the fastest-growing occupations are rarely mentioned by young people. But surely the surprise is not that “user support technician” is ranked onl

2020-02-24 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Bartleby
巴托比职业专栏Teenage picks
青少年的选择Some unfortunate mismatches in young people’s job preferences and prospects
年轻人在工作偏好和就业

2020-02-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What was needed to clear the point up was an experiment. And fish are easier to experiment on than mongooses or jays.
需要进行一次实验来弄清楚这一点。与猫鼬或松鸦相比，用鱼做实验

2020-02-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Kobe Bryant, basketball player, was killed in a helicopter crash on January 26th, aged 41. 篮球运动员科比·布莱恩特于一月26日在一起直升机事故中逝世，享年41岁。Whenever he was

2020-02-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Tenants who don't pay the rent are a bane of landlords everywhere.
不付房租的房客让世界各地的房东头疼。And landlords who use heavy tactics to enforce payment are similarly a

2020-02-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

ounting for China’s increased size is easy. But the economy has not just grown since 2000; its manufacturers have also become enmeshed in supply chains of mind-boggling complexity

2020-02-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In her first speech as the fund's chief,
在她就任基金总裁的首次演讲中，she called for governments to enact domestic reforms that achieve "stronger and more resilient growth",

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There is an inherent tension between China’s apparent success in containing the epidemic and its growth prospects. Though less lethal, covid-19 seems more infectious than SARS. Ch

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于2月15日刊《社论》版块Disease and growth
疾病和发展Viral slowdown
病毒放缓How China’s epidemic could hurt the world economy
这次病毒会如何影响世界经济When sh

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The IMF is familiar with unwelcome edicts. Its job as the world's lender of last resort often involves demanding reform.
IMF对不受欢迎的法令很熟悉。作为世界的最后贷款人，IMF的

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

These new pieces were often taxing: a high B for solo treble in Thomas Adès's "The Fayrfax Carol", hectic stops and starts in Judith Weir's "Illuminare, Jerusalem", stampi

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There is no consensus among professional linguists as to whether, in aggregate, these features make Scots a language, or merely a dialect. Geoffrey Pullum, an Englishman at t

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Pronunciation is not enough to make Scots a language, or the Geordie English spoken in the north-east of England would be one, too. But it also has its own vocabulary, which goes b

2020-02-17 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A cup o’ kindness
一杯善意的酒A politically charged debate over the status of the Scots tongue
关于苏格兰语地位的政治辩

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain decided that it would not ban “high-risk vendors” from parts of its 5g network. Despite the generic language, the decision is mostly about Huawei, which will thus be able

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The chains are held together by bonds between the carbon atoms.
碳链是由碳原子间的键连接在一起的。These are of two varieties, known as single and double bonds.
化学键有两种，单键

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
一周要闻Business
商业The problems mounted at Boeing, as it more than doubled the cost it expects to incur from the grounding of the 737 max airliner, to $18.6