2019-10-17 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A 15-year dispute over subsidies in the aerospace industry came to a partial climax when the World Trade Organisation ruled that America

2019-10-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Until now the rise of computers has democratised finance by cutting costs. A typical ETF charges 0.1% a year, compared with perhaps 1% for an active fund. You can buy ETFs on your

2019-10-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Okjokull, in western Iceland, was officially declared dead in 2014, aged around 800
冰岛西部的奥乔屈尔冰川于2014年正式宣布死亡，享年约800岁It was not the smallest glacier around,

2019-10-16 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Masters of the universe
宇宙主宰者Forget Gordon Gekko. Computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets
忘记葛登·盖柯。越来越多在金融市场上发

2019-10-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The evolution of insults is the subject of Philip Gooden’s new book, “Bad Words”. He recounts in one neat reversal the turn in the history of invective. The Sun, a British tablo

2019-10-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The vocabulary that causes offence today would puzzle those who roared at “bloody”. Consider an insult that occupied the British press for several days in December 2018

2019-10-14 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
约翰逊语言板块Sticks and stones
棍棒和石头The polarisation of politics is producing a new lexicon of insults
政治的两极化正在产生一

2019-10-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Besides designing a new spaceship and booster,
除了设计新的飞船和助推器外，SpaceX's engineers are busy working on a new, more efficient engine to power them.
SpaceX的工程师也

2019-10-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Then in 1992, when she was almost 70, God suddenly set her life-task before her. Three elderly Korean war-rape victims spoke out on television and inspired her to do the same. If s

2019-10-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It looked for all the world like something that might have graced the cover of a 1950s comic book.
它看起来就像是装饰着20世纪50年代漫画书的封面一样。On September 28th, on a warm T

2019-10-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a closely watched case, a judge ruled that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian-Americans in its applications process, finding that it passes “constitutional muster

2019-10-10 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China staged a huge parade to celebrate 70 years of Communist rule. It involved more than 100,000 civilians, 15,000 troops and hundreds o

2019-10-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a sector like aircraft manufacturing, where subsidies are ubiquitous,
在一个像飞机制造这样的部门中，补贴无处不在，it has always been clear that America and the EU needed to agr

2019-10-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Most museum exhibits are beautiful—or at least old.
大多数博物馆的展品都很美，或者至少很古老。But an exhibition in 2015 at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) included 60 cardboar

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet she also feared the light. It was too hard to reveal this. She buried it deep in shame, and so did those closest to her. When she was reunited with her mother in the labour cam

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It is foolish to think all this can be done in ten years or so, as demanded by many activists and some American presidential hopefuls. But today’s efforts, which are too lax to ke

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Throughout history, people have viewed springs as mystical.
纵观历史，人们都认为泉水是神秘的。From the warm pools of Roman Bath, whence sheets of lead inscribed with prayers have

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The scale of the implications underlines another thing that climate change is not. It is not just an environmental problem alongside all the others—and absolutely not one that can

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In short, languages are governed by trade-offs. One that avoids making certain information mandatory may be easy to speak, but leaves the listener to fill in the gaps. It may be si

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But this degradation was new. She and her companions, all virgins, so innocent, had been plucked from their camp to service queues of impatient army officers. To aid selection in t

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The surplus reserves banks hold in their deposit accounts at the Fed fell from $2.2trn in 2017 to $1.4trn now.
银行在美联储的存款账户中持有的盈余准备金从2017年的2.2万亿美元降至现在

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

WeWork postponed its ipo amid tepid interest from investors and a drop in its expected stockmarket value. The office-rental firm has never made a profit and was trying to go public

2019-10-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In fact, to conclude that climate change should mean shackling capitalism would be wrong-headed and damaging. There is an immense value in the vigour, innovation and adaptability t

2019-09-30 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Saudi Arabia sought to assure markets that oil production levels would return to normal within weeks following the attack on two oil faci

2019-09-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Fortunately, the Fed's interventions seemed to work. The repo rate returned to its usual level, close to the federal funds rate,
幸运的是，美联储的干预似乎起到了作用。回购利率