2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

South Africa’s economy was 16.4% smaller in the second quarter compared with the first, the worst contraction since the 1990s. Infections from COVID-19 have slowed, allowing

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His nom de guerre, Duch, meant the schoolboy who stood up when his master asked him to. He may have hated the prison work, but he faithfully repeated the slogans. “Our party makes

2020-09-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Buildings and communities can be built in such a way that fires sweep through them—or better still, around them—leaving them more-or-less intact.
建筑和社区建可以以这样一种方式建

2020-09-28 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A sell-off in tech stocks led to the worst trading period for the Nasdaq since mid-March, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Over a

2020-09-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Flood mitigation is essential. Yet though Japan and South Korea have few climate-change deniers, the sense that warming is a problem generated elsewhere has persisted for too long,

2020-09-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

California burns every year. But amid a record-breaking heatwave, 2020 is the fieriest year yet.
加利福尼亚每年都在燃烧。但在一场破纪录的热浪中，2020年是迄今为止最火热的一年。As T

2020-09-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He kept his usual neat record of what was done to resisters. “About 20 whippings with fine rattan.” “20-30 whippings with electrical wire.” “Stuffing with water.” He claimed

2020-09-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On September 8th Kim Jong Un, the North’s dictator, assembled his top brass to review the damage a week earlier from the second of the typhoons, Maysak, which destroyed 2,000 home

2020-09-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

During the pandemic, CMES such as Germany have generally had a more coherent strategy for containing the spread of the virus.
在疫情期间，CMES，如德国，通常有一套更协调一致的策略来

2020-09-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Asia 亚洲板块Banyan 榕树专栏The new weather gods 新的气象神Floods and storms force Japan and South Korea to think harder about climate change 洪水和风暴肆虐，日本和韩国被迫更加认真

2020-09-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Political economy is a discipline in which rigorous empirical testing is difficult.
政治经济学是一门难以进行严格实证检验的学科。Scholars are rarely presented with the kind of natu

2020-09-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The book ends on an optimistic note. Populist demagogues eventually lose power because they are hopeless at governing. Four in ten wind up being indicted for corruption, by one cou

2020-09-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The author is often amusing as well as illuminating. Genghis Khan was a vicious warlord, but his domestic policies “would today open him up to accusations of being a politically c

2020-09-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

“Open” is clear, colourful and convincing, marshalling evidence from a range of eras and civilisations. The Roman Empire ceased to prosper when it ceased to be open. Christianity

2020-09-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Book review
书评Globalisation
全球化Lowering the drawbridge
降下封锁的吊桥Two books expound the virtues of open societies, past and future
用两本书阐述了开

2020-09-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Trump has already successfully harried the FDA to authorise drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine, with no scientific evidence for their efficacy. He has accused the regulator (unfa

2020-09-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It could feed unceasingly Comrade Pol Pot’s hunger (which had become his own hunger)
它可以源源不断地助涨波尔布特同志铲除资产阶级压迫者阶级，to root out the bourgeois oppressor c

2020-09-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In the second study, scientists led by Tao Dong, an immunologist at the Medical Research Council (MRC), in Britain, went hunting for T-cells.
在第二个研究中，由英国医学研究委员会（

2020-09-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said Iran has ten times the amount of enriched uranium, a nuclear fuel, permitted under the deal it signed with world powers in 2015. Iran would nee

2020-09-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Vaccines
疫苗Strong medicine
强效药Drugmakers tell Donald Trump to cool his heels
制药商让唐纳德·特朗普坐冷板凳The world’s 7.5bn people want a vac

2020-09-18 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Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, proposed a unilateral change to parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement related to the No

2020-09-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Comrade Duch (Kaing Guek Eav), supervisor of killings for Cambodia’s Khmers Rouges, died on September 2nd, aged 77
杜赫同志(康克由)是柬埔寨红色高棉屠杀的主管，他于9月2日去世

2020-09-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The best hope for ending the covid-19 pandemic is a vaccine. There is no shortage of candidates.
结束新冠疫情最大的希望就是疫苗。有不少候选疫苗。The World Health Organisation is t

2020-09-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Although the CDC order is doubtless well-intended, whether it will be judged legal is still uncertain. The latitude given to public-health officials to contain an epidemic is broad

2020-09-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Covid-related products including computing equipment for home-working
自6月份以来，包括家用办公电脑设备在内的疫情相关产品，has accounted for the majority of China's year-on-ye