2020-08-25 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Joe Biden named Kamala Harris, a senator from California, as his running-mate. The daughter of a Jamaican-American economist and an I

2020-08-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The classical butterfly effect suggests that the researchers' meddling should have changed it quite drastically.
经典蝴蝶效应表明，研究人员的干预本应该对其有巨大的改变。In the

2020-08-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This is an entertaining tale that doubles as an important work of scholarship. From its first days in power, Mr Jeffreys-Jones shows, the Nazi party strove to undermine American de

2020-08-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A while after his argument with the patio table, when his sliced right thumb had had stitches and appeared to be healing, Leon Fleisher noticed a sluggishness in his right index fi

2020-08-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Ray Bradbury's science-fiction story "A Sound of Thunder", a character time-travels far into the past and inadvertently crushes a butterfly underfoot.
在雷·布莱伯利的科

2020-08-20 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Espionage
间谍The Fuhrer’s man in Manhattan
希特勒元首的间谍在曼哈顿Ring of Spies.
《间谍集团》By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.
作者：罗德里·杰

2020-08-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Some companies ban all office romances outright. Others issue guidelines such as the stipulation that employees should not allow a relationship with a colleague to influence their

2020-08-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The ensuing credit boom, the biggest in a decade, put renewed pressure on the lira and pushed inflation up.
随之而来的十年内最大的信贷繁荣，这给里拉带来了新的压力，并推高了通货膨胀

2020-08-19 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Labour’s lost love
职员们遗失的爱情The decline of the office romance
办公室恋情的减少Their eyes met across the office photocopier. At long

2020-08-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

So far Mr Johnson’s moral laziness has prevented him from making the best of these instincts. He has made a mockery of his talk of reforming the state by dumping a collection of c

2020-08-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

De Gaulle tackled France’s loss of self-confidence by speaking for “la France profonde” and insisting that “France cannot be France without grandeur”. France could easily have

2020-08-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There seemed to be no end to the unusual measures Turkey would take to shore up the lira.
土耳其为支撑里拉而采取的非正常措施似乎没有尽头。The government had made it prohibitively

2020-08-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain
英国板块Bagehot
白芝浩专栏A certain idea of Britain
对英国的某种看法General de Gaulle has some important lessons for Boris Johnson
戴高乐将军对鲍里斯·约翰逊的一些重要的

2020-08-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Outside the village, he had enemies. He wanted to see Gypsies integrated and living like other Hungarians, for he was proud of being Hungarian too; he dreamed of dark faces in adve

2020-08-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The World Tourism Organisation said that up to the end of May the industry saw a 56% fall in tourist arrivals, year on year, translating to $320bn in lost revenue, three times more

2020-08-14 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The bosses of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google faced sharp questions (remotely) from a committee in America’s Congress about their

2020-08-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Donal McNally, a specialist in biomechanics at the University of Nottingham, in Britain,
英国诺丁汉大学的生物力学专家Donal McNally表示，says that an ideal helmet would make the be

2020-08-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He meets a young girl accused of being possessed by the devil and soon to be burned at the stake, and stares into her eyes, looking for some greater truth. He finds none. “Faith i

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Home entertainment
家庭娱乐专栏Pandemic cinema
疫情影院Will and grace
意愿与恩惠Ingmar Bergman’s contemplation of plague and death is life-enhancing

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Anyone who has experimented as a child with maize starch and water knows about shear-thickening.
任何在童年做过玉米淀粉加水实验的人都知道剪切增稠。A mixture of these substances is

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Big firms such as Accell and Giant of Taiwan compete with sporty brands such as America’s Cannondale and affordable city rides from QWIC. Brompton, a British maker of fancy foldin

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bicycles
自行车Electric shock
电动自行车冲击Two wheels good. Two wheels plus a motor better
两个轮子的自行车很好。在两个轮子的自行车上加上发动机，变成电动自行车

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

As the enterprise grew, he directed everything. A national public-work scheme provided small wages, but enough. Each day the villagers would gather round him to get their tools and

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Banks' earnings reports for the second quarter, released over the past two weeks,
在过去两周发布的银行第二季度财报表明，suggest that the take-up of the schemes may well have r

2020-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The police usually benefit from a natural dividend in the autumn. Homicide rates tend to fall in September as the weather cools and teenagers head back to classrooms. But Mr Herrma