2020-03-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But the effect on consumer sentiment of the hiatus may be even greater. surveys suggest that 59% of Americans are sports fans. For many, the loss of their favourite sports events w

2020-03-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In 1958 he was briefly lured away from his professorship at the IAS to work on Project Orion: a plan to build a rocket, propelled by nuclear power, that would be faster and more ef

2020-03-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Turtles have an unfortunate habit of devouring plastic objects floating in the sea.
海龟有一个坏习惯，就是吞食漂浮在海里的塑料制品。These then get snared in their alimentary canal

2020-03-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business来源于《商业》版块Air transport 航空运输Flight risk 飞行险Most airlines are running on empty 多数航空公司现在一无所获No industry has been more battered by covid-19 than air

2020-03-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于《社论》版块Professional sports
职业运动The game's the thing
体育比赛很重要Cancelling sport will dent morale. A solution may be needed
取消比赛会影响士气。可能需

2020-03-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Kapoor was arrested and formally charged on March 8th with money laundering and corruption, which he denies.
3月8日，Kapoor被捕并被正式指控犯有洗钱和腐败罪，但他对此予以否认。

2020-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Both the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, and his main electoral opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, were sworn in as president of Afghanistan in rival inauguration ceremonies. In the meantime, t

2020-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

India, which has few declared cases of covid-19, has not escaped the turmoil in global markets.
印度几乎没有公布covid-19病例情况，但也未能逃脱全球市场的动荡。On March 9th its stoc

2020-03-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Despite a lack of credentials (he never got round to earning his PHD; friends joked that he was the world's most accomplished graduate student), he was plainly clever. By the a

2020-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The problem may be that sick-pay rules are too strict for employees, not too generous. Given the need to pay the rent, many low-paid workers may feel they have to work unless they

2020-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 本周要闻Business 商业Staggering from the effects of coronavirus on business, stockmarkets were also sent reeling by Saudi Arabia's decision to instigate an oil

2020-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Freeman Dyson, physicist and big thinker, died on February 28th, aged 96. 物理学家、伟大的思想家弗里曼·戴森于2月28日逝世，享年96岁。There are, wrote Freeman Dyson towards th

2020-03-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Vehicles are also moving away from fossil fuels: America expects to have all-electric brigades within the decade.
车辆也正在远离化石燃料：美国预计在十年内将拥有全电动车队。A repo

2020-03-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
来源于《商业》版块Bartleby
巴托比职场专栏In sickness and in health
不论生病还是健康Rethinking attitudes towards employee illness
重新思考对待员工疾病的态度The global s

2020-03-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

War zones are dangerous places. Where better, then, for a nuclear reactor?
战区是危险的地方。对核反应堆来说，却是个好地方。On March 9th America's government awarded a trio of

2020-03-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What should politicians do? Each country must strike its own balance between the benefits of tracking the disease and the invasion of privacy, but South Korea and China show the po

2020-03-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A lot of thought goes into the names of policies, which politicians naturally want to resonate in a positive way. Sometimes that means rebranding old ideas, or borrowing words from

2020-03-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Italy's membership of the euro means that tackling the epidemic depends not just on ministers in Rome.
意大利的欧元区成员国身份意味着，应对这一流行病不仅取决于罗马的部长们。T

2020-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
来源于《图书和艺术》Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏Old wine, new bottles
新瓶装旧酒Framing policies in focus-grouped language gets politicians only so far
用聚焦的语言制定

2020-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Universal systems like Britain’s National Health Service should find it easier to mobilise resources and adapt rules and practices than fragmented, private ones that have to worry

2020-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 本周要闻Politics 政治Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, said that he would be prepared to continue in office past 2024, when his fourth and supposedly final p

2020-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Few people would wish to trade places with Giuseppe Conte, Italy's prime minister.
没什么人愿意和意大利总理朱塞佩·孔特交换位置。As covid-19 spread he put the entire countr

2020-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It did not trouble her. First, she also had other things to do: Raise her three daughters, cook, sew their clothes, care for her sick first husband. Second, she knew in her own min

2020-03-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The uncertainty has many sources. One is that sars-cov-2 and the disease it causes, covid-19, are not fully understood. Another is over the status of the pandemic. In each region o

2020-03-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于3月14日《社论》版块The politics of pandemics
流行病下的政治All governments will struggle. Some will struggle more than others
所有的政府都将举步维艰。有些则特为