2020-05-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Late in 1990, when Paul Kagame was hiding on the Congolese side of the Virunga Mountains preparing to invade Rwanda,
1990年末，当时保罗·卡加梅藏身刚果境内的维龙加山脉，准备

2020-05-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That perception stems in part from Anta’s customer base. Its shops are concentrated in medium-sized cities, to cater to consumers that are less well off than those in Beijing or S

2020-05-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Tasks that require some collaboration can be satisfying, as when players in “Pandemic” work together to stop a deadly virus spreading, or when rivals trade resources in “Settler

2020-05-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain
英国板块Immigration
移民Who cares?
谁会在乎呢？New immigration rules would exclude the key workers Britain relies on. “Care work isn’t just bum wiping,” insists Karol

2020-05-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The country's "gross" foreign assets (including gold) stood at over $87bn on May 12th.
5月12日，该国的“总”外国资产（包括黄金）超过870亿美元。But on the other side of its ba

2020-05-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Policymakers in emerging markets frequently complain that foreign capital is fickle.
新兴市场的决策人经常抱怨外国资本变化无常。But foreign capital could be forgiven for having a s

2020-05-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Chinese brands
中国品牌Upping the Anta
提升安踏An ambitious Chinese sportswear firm does some fancy footwork
一家雄心勃勃的中国运动服装公司做了一些巧妙的策略Di

2020-05-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It was not until 2009 that a state social worker went into the schoolhouse, found them all in the stinking rubbish, and rescued them. In 2011 a lawyer for the federal Equal Employm

2020-05-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块Home Entertainment
家庭娱乐Home-made games
自制游戏Your turn
轮到你了For several hours of escape, invent a board game
为了几个小时的逃亡，发明一个棋盘游戏

2020-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The layout of its shops is being tweaked to discourage people from lingering at high-traffic spots. “The government can give regulations. I think you go beyond... The thing that w

2020-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

America’s Treasury Department said it would auction a new 20-year bond on May 20th. It expects to borrow almost $3trn of debt in the second quarter, a record that far exceeds

2020-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
世界国际要闻Business
经济More swingeing job cuts were announced in the aviation business, an industry that has been hammered by the restrictions on travel. Ge

2020-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For voice commands those means fell to four and three seconds respectively.
而语音指令所需时间分别减少至4秒和3秒。The researchers calculated that reaction times to the red bar
研

2020-05-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain
来自《英国》版块。First orders
第一批订单The return of fun
享乐的回归Non-essential businesses are making plans to reassure customers
非必要企业正制定计划以安抚消费者Str

2020-05-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

("Hang 'em! Hang 'em!" the supervisor would shout.) Henry's was exploiting them to the very limit of the law. As the years passed, too, conditions got worse. He, like a

2020-05-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Step inside most modern cars and instead of all the dials and switches
坐进大多数现代汽车里，你很可能会发现，that used to clutter the dashboard you are likely to find it dominate

2020-05-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Japan gaiatsu, or external pressure, often provokes deep changes.
在日本，外部压力常会引发深刻的变化。It took the arrival of America’s Black Ships in 1853 to end more than 200

2020-05-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The form of the suburb encourages conformity and repetition.
城郊的形式鼓励着遵从和重复。Most streets adhere to a grid, running north-south and eastwest, which is linked to a grid

2020-05-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Both the identity and the payment layers are controlled by the government, but open to others. As a result, using the system is cheap.
身份和支付层面都由政府管控，但是对其他人开放

2020-05-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

More evidence is accumulating to show that the approach works beyond New York. Starting in 2015, three community colleges in Ohio imported the ASAP model, with some modifications (

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When India was hit both by the failure of a big bank and a nationwide lockdown in March,
今年3月，当印度受到一家大银行倒闭和全国封锁的双重打击时，bankers, fearing runs from rattle

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业Office culture
办公室文化The presenteeism premium
出勤率超额Japan’s white-collar warriors struggle to adapt to social distancing
日本的白领战士们努力适应社会

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He lives where most Americans live—in suburbia.
他住在郊区，大多数美国人也住在那。His house sits on a plot that is 50 feet wide and 100 feet deep.
他的房子坐落在一块50英尺宽

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This was the section he worked in. The birds were usually angry, but once he'd hung them up he would give them a pat and croon a word or two. That went on for turkey after turk

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He is not unusual. Students in the ASAP programme have a three-year graduation rate of 53%— more than double the 25% rate in the rest of the City University of New York (CUNY) sys