2020-05-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

("Hang 'em! Hang 'em!" the supervisor would shout.) Henry's was exploiting them to the very limit of the law. As the years passed, too, conditions got worse. He, like a

2020-05-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Step inside most modern cars and instead of all the dials and switches
坐进大多数现代汽车里，你很可能会发现，that used to clutter the dashboard you are likely to find it dominate

2020-05-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Japan gaiatsu, or external pressure, often provokes deep changes.
在日本，外部压力常会引发深刻的变化。It took the arrival of America’s Black Ships in 1853 to end more than 200

2020-05-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The form of the suburb encourages conformity and repetition.
城郊的形式鼓励着遵从和重复。Most streets adhere to a grid, running north-south and eastwest, which is linked to a grid

2020-05-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Both the identity and the payment layers are controlled by the government, but open to others. As a result, using the system is cheap.
身份和支付层面都由政府管控，但是对其他人开放

2020-05-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

More evidence is accumulating to show that the approach works beyond New York. Starting in 2015, three community colleges in Ohio imported the ASAP model, with some modifications (

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When India was hit both by the failure of a big bank and a nationwide lockdown in March,
今年3月，当印度受到一家大银行倒闭和全国封锁的双重打击时，bankers, fearing runs from rattle

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业Office culture
办公室文化The presenteeism premium
出勤率超额Japan’s white-collar warriors struggle to adapt to social distancing
日本的白领战士们努力适应社会

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He lives where most Americans live—in suburbia.
他住在郊区，大多数美国人也住在那。His house sits on a plot that is 50 feet wide and 100 feet deep.
他的房子坐落在一块50英尺宽

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This was the section he worked in. The birds were usually angry, but once he'd hung them up he would give them a pat and croon a word or two. That went on for turkey after turk

2020-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He is not unusual. Students in the ASAP programme have a three-year graduation rate of 53%— more than double the 25% rate in the rest of the City University of New York (CUNY) sys

2020-05-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A leaked letter from Zimbabwe to the imf warned that the country is heading towards economic collapse and that it needs assistance in clearing its existing debts to unlock new fund

2020-05-18 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Reversing course, Donald Trump said that America’s coronavirus task-force would continue, but also focus on rebooting the economy. M

2020-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Patients brought into hospital with all the symptoms of a heart attack have later been found to be suffering from cardiac inflammation caused by the virus.
因心脏病发作症状而入院

2020-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business 商业Dividends and buy-backs 股息和回购Chop chop 加油加油Companies are slashing payouts to their owners 公司大幅削减股东的派息Shareholders the world over have had a rotten

2020-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Willie Levi, turkey-handler, died of covid-19 on April 23rd, aged 73
火鸡工人威利·利瓦伊于4月23日因新冠肺炎去世，享年73岁。Singing was something Willie Levi loved to do. When he

2020-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a new poll, that had fallen to 47%. But while public attitudes have softened, official ones have hardened. Only a decade ago, when it still enjoyed good relations with Europe, M

2020-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

According to England's National Health Service the signs
根据英国国民医疗服务体系，that someone has contracted the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2 are a high temperature or a new, c

2020-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Growing up in Morris Heights, a poor neighbourhood in the Bronx where violence was omnipresent, Joel Cabrera thought his future would be either “death or jail, because that’s wha

2020-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The government investigates those who object to homophobia 政府调查反同性恋者Stuck at home during Ramadan because of covid-19, Turks at least have something new to argue about. In

2020-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Brazil's constitutional limits on the central bank, for example, reflect its history of hyperinflation,
例如，巴西对央行的宪法限制反映了其恶性通货膨胀的历史，when governments

2020-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Emerging markets have long resented quantitative easing (QE).
新兴市场长期以来都很讨厌量化宽松政策（QE）。When America's Federal Reserve began its third round of asset purchases

2020-05-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

No wonder American rivals are trying to clip its wings.
难怪美国的竞争对手们都想要断其羽翼。Facebook’s TikTok clone, Lasso, has flopped.
Facebook推出的TikTok克隆版Lasso已经失败了

2020-05-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ms Faithfull, with whom he worked on putting music to the work of Gregory Corso, the last of the great Beat poets, described as him a "curator of souls, hipster, producer of miracu

2020-05-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The lights are off in many Florida businesses.
佛罗里达州的许多公司都熄灯了。But after dark, the glow of the Ocala Drive-In's 90-foot screen can be seen from a quarter of a mi