2020-11-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

With COVID-19 soaring in some areas, England went back into a national lockdown. Non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants, gyms and other public places will close until December 2nd,

2020-11-23 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America’s presidential election was closer than the polls had suggested. In the electoral college Joe Biden won Michigan and Wiscons

2020-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The latest attempt to plumb these depths comes from Anish Kapoor, a British- Indian artist whose work questions notions of perception. He has co-opted a revolutionary black materia

2020-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If the legal route was barred by injunctions or contempt of court, he made his cause a moral one. He ran the story over several pages under a banner headline, and week by week foun

2020-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块Colour in art
艺术中的颜色Paint it black
把它涂成黑色The colour black has long been the ultimate test of an artist’s ingenuity
黑色一直是对艺术家创造力的终

2020-11-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Harold Evans, editor and publisher, died on September 23rd, aged 92
编辑、出版人哈罗德·埃文斯于9月23日逝世，享年92岁。On that day in 1981 when he first sat at the pinnacle of Bri

2020-11-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bristling to work
竖着工作In tests with a number of unnamed battery companies, Dr Boulanger says VACNT electrodes achieved an energy density of 500wh/kg in one battery and up to 1

2020-11-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

According to a paper its inventors published recently in Nature Communications, the Graz cell's performance exceeds that of a Li-ion battery. It is able, for example, to cope w

2020-11-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Questions in such tests may ask a candidate to describe their behaviour in hypothetical situations: dealing with an angry customer, for example. The suggested answers may all be pl

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Superbatteries
超级电池What do you get when you cross a hare with a tortoise?
乌龟和兔子交配产下的种Mixing supercapacitors and batteries may give electric cars what they need to

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

None of the attackers in Dresden, Paris, Nice or Vienna is thought to have reached Iraq or Syria. Though the Dresden suspect had been convicted of recruiting on behalf of IS and do

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On November 2nd the Chinese central bank and banking regulator published new draft rules for online micro-lending, which looked almost perfectly tailored to undercut Ant. Online le

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby
巴托比专栏Questionable behaviour
别有用心的行为Companies are relying more and more on psychometric tests
公司们越来越依赖心理计量测验Here is a test.

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Capacitors, by contrast—whether basic or "super"—consist of a pair of electrically conductive plates placed either side of a separator material. When a voltage is applied to thes

2020-11-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Regulators v Ant Group
监管者 V 蚂蚁集团Ant agonises
热锅上的蚂蚁The world's biggest IPO is now the world's biggest suspended IPO
世界上最大的IPO现在是世界上最大的暂缓IP

2020-11-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The flurry of attacks recalls the bloodshed of 2015 to 16, when Islamist terrorists killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in January 2015, 131 people at multiple sites in Pa

2020-11-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Europe
欧洲板块Terrorism in Europe
欧洲恐怖主义Oh Vienna
噢，维也纳Despite the horrors in Austria and France, jihadism has declined
尽管奥地利和法国的恐怖主义事件频发，但圣战主

2020-11-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Policy seems to play a powerful role in explaining the collapse in full-time employment in the east. Despite some recent changes, the policies of unified Germany, like those of the

2020-11-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Employment in Germany
德国就业Nature v nurture
先天V后天Why east and west German women still work vastly different hours?
妇女的工作时长在东德和西德差距为何如此之大？Scholars ar

2020-11-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A committee in America’s House of Representatives accused Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google of exploiting their monopoly power, comparing them to oil and railway tycoons in the 1

2020-11-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The problem runs deep. A host of negative words and expressions in English contain the modifier “black”; they are old, and are probably related to a primeval fear of darkness. No

2020-11-04 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The IMF urged governments in rich countries to step up spending on investment, pointing out that, even before COVID-19, public-invest

2020-11-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In all, 25 of the decoys were poached. They told different stories. Some travelled just a few kilometres, with one ending up at a bar 2km away from the nest it was taken from, wher

2020-11-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Johnson
约翰逊专栏Justice and just slips
公平与失言The battle against racist language is too important to trivialise
反对种族主义用语十分重要，不容轻视Bac

2020-11-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But he did not see a distinction. He had decided early, under the influence of the Arya Samaj movement and the works of Gandhi and Marx, that his dharma or spiritual duty was to go