2021-02-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治版块A winter storm that covered three-quarters of America’s Lower 48 with snow brought havoc to southern states. A federal emergency

2021-02-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Perhaps this relates to human history. Mass urbanisation is a relatively recent development; if the history of human existence was squeezed into a single day, the Industrial Revolu

2021-02-22 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: When Kev Marcus and Wil B. met in a high school music class, they shared their desire to disrupt people's impressions of what classical music should be. Together

2021-02-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Bob Hirshon.
Getting a handle on how COVID-19 is spreading across the country is difficult, because current models are based

2021-02-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Epidemiologists have long known that socially connected individuals like friends, family and co-workers

2021-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby You’ll often walk alone
巴托比专栏——你常独行Loneliness is a widespread problem with complex roots
孤独是一个普遍存在的问题，其根源很复杂There has be

2021-02-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
Here in New York the coronavirus cases are exploding—we're on the steep part of the curve. You'

2021-02-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Susanne Bard.
Picture a small kangaroo. You're basically seeing something very much like the Australian marsupial

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He is optimistic that getting vaccines to interested people will help reduce hesitation, too. But only if they can get to where the jabs are being offered. Mr Marte says some pensi

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Unless states and cities prioritise vaccinating non-whites, they are likely to fall behind. Yet if they do, that could create a backlash and result in legal challenges. According t

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Vaccinations
疫苗Access denied
拒绝使用Inoculating non-whites is the first step to reducing vaccine hesitation
为非白人接种疫苗是减少疫苗犹豫的第一步The b

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This bonanza is a victory for those who spent the past decade attempting to make banks safer. In the past investment-bank earnings were more tied to the economy, thanks to fat port

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ms Whitehorn, meanwhile, dealt with the eternal worries of women that they were not elegant or organised enough. Her most famous column, in 1963, defended all slatterns who had eve

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rotifers are famously asexual. The last time members of one group of the animals, the bdelloids, had sex is reckoned by zoologists to have been about 80m years ago. Members of Brac

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Wall Street's banks 华尔街的银行Topsy turvy 七颠八倒Have banks now got too much cash? 银行现在有很多钱？The fates of the economy and banks are normally closely entwined; when cust

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Supported by a group of British business leaders, Eurostar reiterated its request to the British government for a bail-out. Operating trains through the tunnel linking Britain and

2021-02-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Annie Sneed.
Plastic: It's all over the ocean. And for sea turtles, it's a killer. At least 1,000 die every ye

2021-02-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Protest art
抗议艺术Walls have eyes
隔墙有眼An artist documents clashes between French demonstrators and police
一位艺术家记录了法国示威者和警察之间的冲突When Itvan Kebadian spr

2021-02-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Sometimes real fear was the problem. Dr Watsa was quite flummoxed by the number of missives he got about masturbation, which made up half his postbag. Would it drain your strength

2021-02-10 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: In recognition of Black History Month, tonight's Brief But Spectacular comes from historian Daina Ramey Berry, who chairs the History Department at the Universit

2021-02-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

China's economy
中国经济Southern tiger
南方虎势汹汹As northern China struggles, the south surges ahead
在中国北方挣扎之际，南方却奋起直追"Don't invest beyond Shanhaigua

2021-02-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Oxbridge archives are rich enough to allow for the construction of something like an ideal property index, however. The study's authors dredged for detailed data on sales a

2021-02-09 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: And a passing to note tonight. Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer died today at his home in Connecticut. During his nearly 70-year career, Plummer became known

2021-02-09 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Adam Levy.
Open up a clam, and you might see the making of a tasty snack. You probably wouldn't expect to find the

2021-02-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Business
经济版块Janet Yellen, Joe Biden’s pick as treasury secretary, urged senators to pass the new president’s $1.9trn stimulus package, say