2020-09-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Marvin Creamer, geographer and circumnavigator, died on August 12th, aged 104.
马文·克里默是一名地理学家和环球航海家，他于8月12日去世，享年104岁。When Francis Drake rounded the g

2020-09-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common?
抗疟疾药物、俄罗斯疫苗和新冠康复患者的血浆之间有什么共同之

2020-09-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Such change has not worked its destruction unaided. Mistaken policies have made the forests more vulnerable, especially the decades-long suppression of wildfires. Fires thin out th

2020-09-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On August 16th a monitoring station in Death Valley measured a temperature of 54.4°C (130°F). If confirmed, that would be the highest reliably recorded anywhere on Earth. It may

2020-09-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The government's caps on mortgage availability have hit first-time buyers, particularly those looking to buy in affluent areas.
政府对获得贷款的限制打击了首次购房者，尤其是那些

2020-09-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Despite a big drop in quarterly profit, Saudi Aramco said it would still pay a shareholder dividend, most of which goes to the Saudi government. The oil company’s net income in th

2020-09-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Natural disasters
自然灾害The condor’s cry
加州秃鹰的哀号California has been roiled by covid-19, drought, heatwaves and now two of the biggest fires

2020-09-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Judging from the chatter on the streets of Gangnam, it is a bad time to buy property in the South Korean capital.
从江南街道上的嘈杂声可以判断出，现在不是在韩国首都置办房产的好时机

2020-09-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Her perspective inside the hospital was unique. But a series Mr Montgomery did at the Farenga Brothers Funeral Home in the Bronx involved even thornier ethical challenges. His imag

2020-08-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
世界国际要闻Business
经济Britain’s economy plunged into recession in the second quarter, as GDP contracted by a record 20.4% compared with the previous three

2020-08-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Photography, the critic Susan Sontag wrote, “has kept company with death ever since cameras were invented.” This year it has helped tell the story of covid-19. Photographers arou

2020-08-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Unlike the right, it was built for the instrument, since the high tune could still be tapped out by the thumb while the other fingers kept to the bass. Besides, melody was the leas

2020-08-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Working with a team of colleagues, the researchers obtained DNA from 12 woolly-rhinoceros bones collected from permafrost in Siberia,
研究人员和同事们从西伯利亚多年冻土中采集到的1

2020-08-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books and arts
文艺板块Images of covid-19
新冠肺炎的影像Decent exposure
正当曝光In documenting the pandemic, photographers have wrestled with ethical questions about voyeurism a

2020-08-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

From the moa in New Zealand to the dodo in Mauritius,
从新西兰的恐鸟到毛里求斯的渡渡鸟，the arrival of humans has often spelled extinction for tasty but previously isolated animal

2020-08-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Valuations of A380s have tumbled accordingly. The oldest models have been flying for 12 years or so. At that age, aircraft have typically lost half their value. Given each costs $2

2020-08-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He had already been giving classes at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and now he did so, both there and at the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood, as energetically as if his life

2020-08-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Airbus A380
空中客车A380Superjumbo problems
巨无霸问题The world’s biggest passenger aeroplane is going cheap
世界上最大的客机正在降价How much is an airliner w

2020-08-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Muthoot has grown steadily since the early 1950s. It has more than 5,000 branches serving 250,000 customers a day,
Muthoot自20世纪50年代初以来一直在稳步增长。其有五千多家分公司，每

2020-08-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

No one, however, is worse placed to preach about the dangers of Gulenism than Mr Erdogan, whose government was once joined at the hip with the movement. By locking up everyone link

2020-08-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Gulenists’ success was their undoing. By the early 2010s, they had amassed enough power to pose a threat to Mr Erdogan. “There was a time when they virtually ruled Turkey,”

2020-08-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In times of trouble, jewellery turns from ornament to collateral
在困难时期，珠宝会从装饰品变成抵押品Closing time for the Kondapur branch of Muthoot Finance, in Hyderabad, is usua

2020-08-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Europe
欧洲板块Charlemagne
查理曼专栏The other villain
另一个反派Fethullah Gulen shares blame for the state of Turkey today
对于时下土耳其局势，法土拉·葛兰难辞其咎You mi

2020-08-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Such a career had possessed him from childhood, and his slightly crazy mother had also thought of nothing else, pushing him under the nose of every eminent musician she could find

2020-08-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rebels in northern Mozambique captured the port city of Mocímboa da Praia, killing dozens of soldiers and sinking a navy patrol boat. The jihadist insurgency threatens the d