2020-07-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet though the disease is everywhere, it is discussed euphemistically. Newcomers are diagnosed as anaemic. As is still the case in the rich world, death is hidden. “You hear nothi

2020-07-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Owners and managers are trying to make confinement more bearable with free internet and wage top-ups,
船主和经理们正试图通过免费互联网和加薪来让禁闭变得更容易忍受，says Andreas Ha

2020-07-01 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Losing his grip
失去控制Boris Johnson’s poor management of the covid crisis is undermining his ability to govern
鲍里斯·约翰逊对新

2020-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"I'm not comfortable in my chair with such a crew," says the captain of a cargo vessel in the South Atlantic en route from Bermuda to Singapore.
“和这么一群船员在一起，我坐

2020-06-30 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
家庭娱乐栏目Illness in literature
文学中的疾病Climb every mountain
攀爬每一座山A classic German saga of high-altitude sickness is oddly

2020-06-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When she first put a toe on the streets, in the mid-1930s, there were 30 others. It was a competitive business, but she could not cut her prices; at 20 francs a go, she needed to s

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

And changing they are, for the extent of the Arctic sea ice in summer has declined by 30% in the past 30 years, and that loss is accelerating.
它们正在发生变化，因为在过去的30年里

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet corporate activism will amount to little if tech firms and their financiers do not change how they operate, says Sydney Sykes, co-founder of BLCK VC, a group on a mission to sw

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Beyond the pandemic, American women face two problems that licensed midwives can help with. First, America is one of only 13 countries where the maternal mortality rate increased b

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It is easy to over-analyse “The Prisoner”, and many fans have. A banner at a recent anti-lockdown march in London proclaimed (but garbled) Number 6’s cry of defiance: “I am not

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There is "lockdown". And then there is lockdown.
船只“封锁”。国家封锁。Those who have spent the past weeks allowed out only to exercise and visit the shops
那些在过去

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Lily Lian (née Liliane Lebon), the last chanteuse on the streets of Paris, died on May 24th, aged 103
莉莉·利昂（原名莉莉安·勒邦）是巴黎最后一位街头女歌手，她

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Race in Silicon Valley
硅谷中的种族Beyond the pale
出格The technology industry faces up to its diversity problem
科技产业面临多元化问题To get a sense of divers

2020-06-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Other approaches lead to much bigger sums. One calculates the difference between what slaves were given by way of maintenance, and what free workers were paid.
其他方法的赔偿金额更

2020-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The pandemic is making America rethink its shunning of midwifery
这场疫情致使美国重新思考它对接生的回避In a normal year, Robina Khalid might take on 70-80 clients at her midwifery

2020-06-24 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
家庭娱乐栏目Rewatching “The Prisoner”
重播《六号特殊犯人The Prisoner》He was not a number
他不只是一个数字Confinement is not

2020-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a survey last year 29% of Americans supported the idea that the government
在去年的一次调查中，29%的美国人支持政府should make cash payments to black Americans who were descenda

2020-06-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Middle East &Africa
中东和非洲板块Where dead men vote
死人在哪里投票Burundi's sham election
布鲁迪的假选举A landslide victory for the president's hand-picked successor

2020-06-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Amazon was reportedly in talks to buy Zoox, a startup that is developing electric-powered robotaxis. Amazon’s interest in autonomous-vehicle technology so far has focused on

2020-06-22 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 German government offered to bail out Lufthansa, with an equity injection of 6bn euros ($6.6bn) and loans worth 3bn euros. The go

2020-06-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The rubber barons who had destroyed his family and much of the region in the early 20th century had been only the bloodiest in a string of invaders and exploiters going back, he re

2020-06-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Agathon Rwasa, the leader of the CNL, called the election a "fiasco" and plans to challenge the result in the constitutional court. Yet Burundi's judiciary is not seen as indep

2020-06-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Although scientists cannot experiment on human beings deliberately,
虽然科学家无法蓄意对人类进行实验，some wonder if the world is now carrying out a natural experiment that tests

2020-06-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"This is a, I would say, senseless dividing line," said Doug Burgum, governor of North Dakota,
“我认为，这是一条毫无意义的分界线”，美国北达科他州道格·柏格姆说，

2020-06-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He did not, like Karamakate, crush yakruna leaves into powder to give people psychedelic dreams. But if he found himself sitting by some unfamiliar plant he would instinctively plu