2019-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏How to talk to aliens
如何与外星人交谈The challenge says a lot about talk among people, too
这个挑战也说明了很多人与人沟通的问题Imagine dining in a Europea

2019-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, faced a challenge to his leadership after being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases. Mr Net

2019-12-06 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 has 276 embassies and other diplomatic offices, more than any other country, according to the Lowy Institute, a think-tank. It pass

2019-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When it comes to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church.
说到性行为，动物王国是一个广教派。Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with crea

2019-12-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Schwab could not go on charging $4.95 a pop. Still less could TD Ameritrade keep asking $6.95.
嘉信理财不能再继续收取4.95美元的费用了。德美利证券也不收取6.95美元的没用了。Admitted

2019-12-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The price war was swift and brutal, lasting less than eight weeks.
这场价格战迅速又残酷，持续了还不到8周的时间。On October 1st Charles Schwab said it would no longer charge retail

2019-12-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Many booms turn to bust. Unlike, say, WeWork, most entertainment firms have a plausible strategy, but too much cash is now chasing eyeballs. Netflix is burning $3bn a year and woul

2019-12-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His nom de guerre, coined earlier, anticipated this day: Abu Bakr, the first caliph after Muhammad's death; al-Baghdadi, the Abbasids' capital. The caliphate itself was ord

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The entertainment business is fast-moving by its very nature. It has few tangible assets, it relies on technology to distribute its wares and its customers crave novelty. The emerg

2019-12-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Amid the debris and deals the outlines of a new business model are becoming clear. It relies on broadband and devices, not cable-packages, and overwhelmingly on subscriptions, not

2019-12-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Kroger’s sheds, which may take up to five years to complete, already give a sense of the emerging grocery battle lines. They will be big, up to about 33,000 square metres (350,000

2019-12-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Grocery is a sadomasochistic business. Sellers can count on stable revenues but have little margin for error on sourcing, price and waste. Shoppers suffer from a retail version of

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Leaders
来源于《社论》版块The $650bn binge
6500亿美元的狂欢Creative
创造力Creative destruction in the entertainment business has had blockbuster results
娱乐业的“创造性破坏”取

2019-12-02 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Tomato catch-up
番茄，快点走，再不快点就变成番茄酱了Ocado wages a grocery war against Amazon, Walmart and Alibaba
Ocado与

2019-12-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The sensors are attached to transmitters that communicate with receivers at the edges of the playing field.
传感器安装在发射器上，发射器与赛场边缘的接收器进行通信。By monitoring t

2019-12-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Now that IS had territory—the city of Raqqa, too, had fallen to him—he declared a Sunni caliphate and himself Caliph Ibrahim, the most pious, the warrior, the reviver, who would

2019-11-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rugby union, it is often said, is a game for thugs that is played by gentlemen.
人们常说，橄榄球是绅士们玩的流氓游戏。"Played by lawyers" might be a more accurate dictum. The rule

2019-11-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The California Trucking Association launched a legal challenge against the state’s new law giving wage and benefit protections to independent contractors. The rules are aimed

2019-11-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Plans are being hatched but have not yet been executed, he says.
他表示，计划正在酝酿中，但尚未付诸实施。Plants in Mexico owned by international carmakers have the most changes to

2019-11-28 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Business
商业Disney’s streaming video service went live, the latest in a lengthening line of challengers to Netflix’s dominance of the market. The t

2019-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"You would need a magic wand to bring back manufacturing jobs," said President Donald Trump on November 12th,
11月12日，唐纳德·特朗普总统引用前政府官员的话表示，quoting someone f

2019-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (born Ibrahim Awad), leader of Islamic State, blew himself up on October 26th, aged 48
阿布·巴克尔·巴格达迪(本名易卜拉欣·阿瓦徳)是伊斯兰国组织领袖，他于10月

2019-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But there are unintended consequences. Sexual assault is usually defined (for example, by American and British authorities) as sexual contact without consent. This means that the g

2019-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Or consider the English word. Coming from Latin rapere, its oldest sense involves neither sex nor bodily harm; it means to take something by force (as in the adjective, “rapacious

2019-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
图书与艺术Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏Unspeakable things
无法用语言表达的事The problematic vocabulary of sexual violence
有问题的性暴力词汇It is a cliché that three top