2020-09-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A deus ex machina of sorts has come from the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), the federal public-health agency that is occasionally the target of the president’s scorn. Arguing

2020-09-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Volume 2", an action drama, the protagonist, played by Uma Thurman, punches her way out of a coffin.
在昆汀·塔伦蒂诺的动作片《杀死比尔2》中

2020-09-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Eviction
驱逐Shelter in place
就地避难Can the executive branch halt evictions on public-health grounds?
政府行政部门能否因公共卫生问题而终止驱逐行为？Even

2020-09-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ironically, a big reason for investors’ enthusiasm is Delivery Hero’s non-German focus. A few years ago it offloaded its German businesses, Foodora, Lieferheld and Pizza.de, to T

2020-09-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Heavy cumulus clouds indicated land; diving petrels showed, specifically, the Falklands (as did the raf fighter jets that buzzed them, so soon after the war). Red sand-streaks on t

2020-09-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If robots are to go where people go, they need to be able to move in the way that people move.
如果机器人要去人类去到的地方，它们需要能够像人类一样移动。Wheels are useless for nav

2020-09-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Public-sector net debt in Britain rose above 2trn pounds ($2.6trn) for the first time. The government’s debt at the end of July was roughly equal to GDP.
英国公共部门净债务首

2020-09-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业板块German blue chips
德国蓝筹股Ascend and deliver
外卖超人上榜Delivery Hero could last longer in the DAX 30 than the firm it has replaced
相比被取代的公司，外卖超

2020-09-11 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Ant Group filed papers for what could be the biggest-ever IPO, raising up to $30bn. Most famous for its Alipay service, the group is

2020-09-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

They might appear cutesy, but a pair of robots that turned up recently
最近，在福特汽车公司位于底特律的范戴克变速器厂at the Ford Motor Company's Van Dyke Transmission Plant, i

2020-09-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When school closes poor pupils lose a social institution of last resort —one that educates, feeds, counsels and sometimes clothes them— whereas richer pupils are more insulated.

2020-09-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Both north and south of the Equator, his calculations proved so accurate that almost all the Globe Star’s landfalls, on a route from Dakar via Sydney round to Bermuda, were within

2020-09-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The true scale of the educational fallout will be unknown for years, because it manifests itself in future decisions like dropping out of high school or university. It will also re

2020-09-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Whatever the final bill, some Lebanese insurers will struggle to pay it.
不管最终账单是多少，一些黎巴嫩保险公司将将难以支付。Written premiums fell by 4% in 2019 as an economic cri

2020-09-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Back to school
重返校园Learning and covid
学习与新冠肺炎疫情Disrupted schooling spells worse results and deeper inequality
中断的学校教育会引发更糟的结果，

2020-09-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A homeowner in Achrafieh does not care if the investigation is a sham, only that it rules that the explosion was an accident.
阿什拉斐叶区的一位私房屋主并不在乎调查的真假，只在乎调

2020-09-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In 18th-century Lisbon, as the Inquisition entered its decline, the Catholic authorities presented the Masons as an illicit gay cult. After the French revolution the English feared

2020-09-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In this account, however, Mr Dickie veers away from celebrity biography to focus on the broader membership. His characters are idealists and misfits—political exiles and refugees,

2020-09-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That, however, does not take account of the chances of getting caught. These have risen as enforcement of America’s 43-year-old anti-bribery law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

2020-09-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books and arts
文艺板块Book review
书评The Freemasons
共济会Inside the Lodge
共济会会所内幕The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World.
《The Craft：共济会如何创造现代

2020-09-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To prepare himself he had done some hard study of oceanography and meteorology, in the gaps between teaching geography in the department he had founded at Glassboro State College,

2020-09-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

America's behaviour is not much better. Again, the approach behind the product approved is reasonable in principle, but insufficiently tested.
美国的做法也好不到哪去。同样，被

2020-09-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A deposition containing startling allegations of corruption against three former Mexican presidents and other politicians and officials was leaked to the press. The current preside

2020-09-04 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Politics
政治Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, fell into a coma after being poisoned.

2020-09-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bribery
贿赂A closer look at greasy palms
审视行贿Bribery pays—if you don’t get caught
贿赂的代价——如果没被抓住Many big companies may b