2018-12-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The hard question is over the lengths to which America should go. Protectionists in the White House would doubtless like to move the semiconductor supply chain to America. Good luc

2018-12-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Well before Mr Trump arrived on the scene, China made plain its intention to catch up. In 2014 the government in Beijing announced a 1trn yuan ($150bn) investment fund to improve i

2018-12-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
社论Chip wars
芯片战America cannot afford to ignore China’s semiconductor ambitions. It cannot easily tame them, either
美国既无法忽视中国的半导体雄心，也不能将其轻

2018-12-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Facebook will inevitably roll out ads (which is again the reason why WhatsApp's co-founders left),
脸书不可避免地将推广广告（这也是WhatsApp联合创始人离开的原因），but it knows

2018-12-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Pfizer announced price increases for around 10% of its drugs, starting in the new year. In July it had pledged to postpone price rises in response to Donald Trump’s rebuke of the

2018-12-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Nor did the procedure fulfil any unmet medical need. For the child whose genome was edited to confer resistance, the claimed benefit is protection from a virus that she may never e

2018-12-07 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Under increasing pressure about the serial management mishaps at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said he would not relinquish his title as chai

2018-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Executive turnover was a leading indicator of its decline; before Ms Mayer was hired it went through four chief executives in three years.
高管更换是其衰败的先行指标；在聘请梅耶尔

2018-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
社论Gene editing
基因编辑The baby crisperer
婴儿“保险盒”A Chinese scientist claims to have edited the genomes of two babies
中国科学家声称已成功编辑两名婴儿

2018-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"Big tobacco" is what the bosses of several large technology firms have started calling Facebook in private and in public.
几家大型科技公司的老板们已经开始在私底下和公开场合称脸书

2018-12-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Efforts to curb access to the means to kill oneself can help, too. Suicide is surprisingly impulsive. A study of young Chinese women who had tried to kill themselves showed that th

2018-12-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When it came to the second round of tests, Dr Golle found that the personalities of those who had gone to university had changed not a statistically detectable jot.
在第二轮测试时

2018-12-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Going to university is supposed to be a mind-broadening experience.
读大学应该是开阔思想的经历。That assertion is presumably made in contradistinction to training for work straigh

2018-12-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Why are these people now less likely to take their own lives? Urbanisation and greater freedom have helped. Accounts of those who attempt suicide, and of the relatives of those who

2018-11-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The biggest thing Mr Gurumurthy is thought to have helped get done is demonetisation in 2016,
普遍认为古穆绥帮助做成的最大一件事就是2016年的货币废止，when 86% of bank notes by val

2018-11-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Staying alive
活着Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring the numbers down further still
为何世界各地自杀率都有下降？如何进一步降低自杀率？“You know,&rdqu

2018-11-29 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The hard Brexiteers in Britain’s Conservative Party opposed to Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the eu struggled to get enough

2018-11-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Sometime in the 1990s Jagdish Bhagwati, one of India's most distinguished economists, encountered Swaminathan Gurumurthy,
在20世纪90年代某时，印度最杰出的经济学家贾格迪什·巴格

2018-11-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He revelled in his powers. These creations were not only living, breathing people, with the thought-balloons he had invented bubbling from their troubled heads. They also had their

2018-11-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

At some point after the war Europeans decided to take more time off, while Americans opted (or were persuaded) to keep their shoulders to the wheel for longer.
战后的某时刻，欧洲人

2018-11-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

So you would never have suspected anything of Stanley Leiber as he was growing up poor in Manhattan, with his father out of work, living on hot dogs and wandering the streets alone

2018-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on November 22nd, and having gorged on turkey and cranberry sauce,
美国人在11月22日庆祝感恩节，享受火鸡和小红莓果酱，will take the next day off as

2018-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Obituary
讣告Stan Lee
斯坦·李Prepare to be astonished!
准备好大吃一惊吧！Stan Lee, born Stanley Lieber, comic-book writer, died on November 12th, aged 95
斯坦·李，

2018-11-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But against these benefits, there are costs to weigh.
但在这些利益背后，还有代价需要权衡。Far from reducing congestion by encouraging people to give up their cars, as many had hop

2018-11-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hanging over this debate about the pros and cons of the deal is the question of what overturning it would do to the health of Britain’s democracy. Parliament has the legal right t