2020-07-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The talks cover two proposals, or "pillars", in OECD-speak.
谈判涵盖两项提议，或用OECD的话来说是两个“支柱”。The first is meant to direct more of the global-tax take towards plac

2020-07-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块home entertainment
家庭娱乐专栏Musical high jinks
音乐狂人Played for laughs
笑料百出A Norwegian comedy duo find inspiration in banality
一对挪威喜剧组合在

2020-07-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When G20 finance ministers meet on July 18th and 19th, avoiding a new trade war will be high on the agenda.
当G20财政部长于7月18日和19日会面时，避免一场新的贸易战争将成为议程上的重

2020-07-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He composed for the stage and the radio, but quit the national radio broadcaster, rai, when they wouldn’t let him freelance on the side. Branching out on his own, he refused to le

2020-07-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Redskins are not the only team wrestling with nomenclature. The Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves, both baseball teams, also face pressure to change their names, as have the

2020-07-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Nomenclature
命名Skin in the name
名字的表皮An American-football team finally sheds its moniker
一支美国足球队终于改名了Since he bought the Redskins in 19

2020-07-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The upshot is that biochar is good at pulling pollutants like lead out of water.
结果生物炭非常善于将铅等污染物从水中抽走。And once a filter was saturated with the stuff, it woul

2020-07-24 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Jeff Sessions was clobbered in Alabama’s Republican Senate primary by Tommy Tuberville. Mr Sessions, a senator for 20 years until 20

2020-07-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The degree of judgment required tends to increase as people take on more responsibility. Those with routine tasks generally have limited scope for judgment. Line supervisors have s

2020-07-23 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A question of judgment
判断力问题A quality that is hard to define but important to possess
一种很难定义但是很重要的品质。The pandemic has re

2020-07-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Killing two birds with one stone is a desirable objective, but rarely an achievable one.
一石二鸟是一个令人向往的目标，但很难实现。However, Dinesh Mohan of Nehru University, in De

2020-07-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Despite its winding economic narrative (and piles of manufacturing statistics), “Porcelain” is rarely a grind. Ms Marchand writes wittily about subjects from bourgeois views on t

2020-07-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块Book review
书评Craft and commerce
手工业和商业Shifting plates
不断变化的盘子Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe.
瓷器：欧洲中心的历史By Suzanne

2020-07-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This stockpile comes on top of the $20bn the lenders set aside in the first quarter.
这些银行在第一季度拨备了200亿美元。The way to think about these provisions, said Jennifer Piep

2020-07-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Given the rise in cases, however, it seems unlikely that the death rate will remain stagnant for much longer. Deaths for patients infected weeks ago will probably start to pile up.

2020-07-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ennio Morricone, composer, died on July 6th, aged 91
作曲家埃尼奥·莫里康内于7月6日去世，享年91岁。The theme may have been written well over half a century ago, but in less

2020-07-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The first act of the impact of the coronavirus on America's financial markets and banking system was characterised by panic.
冠状病毒对美国金融市场和银行体系影响的第一幕是恐慌

2020-07-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, began reopening his state in early May, when there were around 400 new cases being detected a day. He began backtracking two months

2020-07-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块The virus
病毒Here it goes again
卷土重来America is in the midst of an extraordinary surge of covid-19
美国正处于新冠肺炎异常激增的时期On the same weekend

2020-07-20 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In another dreadful week for workers in the aviation industry, Airbus said it would cut 15,000 jobs, about a tenth of its total, beca

2020-07-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Readers of a certain age are now permitted to roll their eyes. At least twice in the past 50 years—in the 1970s, after the oil crisis,
某个年龄层的读者会表示不相信。在过去50年里—

2020-07-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In fact, the two-year average was expressly designed to account for low-emission years —a lesson learned from an early attempt to set the baseline in 2010, which was thwarted by t

2020-07-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Airlines and the climate
航空公司与气候Setting a new CORSIA
设立新的《国际航空碳抵消和减排计划》A carbon-intensive industry defangs an already mostly toothless

2020-07-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Conventional wisdom holds that battery-powered cars are the future of motoring.
传统观点认为，电池驱动汽车是汽车驾驶的未来。But Hyundai, a big South Korean vehicle-maker, is not s

2020-07-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Arab governments have passed laws against cybercrime and online terrorism to cow social-media firms and their users. Facebook “tries to comply” with local codes. It has opened