2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There is an inherent tension between China’s apparent success in containing the epidemic and its growth prospects. Though less lethal, covid-19 seems more infectious than SARS. Ch

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于2月15日刊《社论》版块Disease and growth
疾病和发展Viral slowdown
病毒放缓How China’s epidemic could hurt the world economy
这次病毒会如何影响世界经济When sh

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The IMF is familiar with unwelcome edicts. Its job as the world's lender of last resort often involves demanding reform.
IMF对不受欢迎的法令很熟悉。作为世界的最后贷款人，IMF的

2020-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

These new pieces were often taxing: a high B for solo treble in Thomas Adès's "The Fayrfax Carol", hectic stops and starts in Judith Weir's "Illuminare, Jerusalem", stampi

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There is no consensus among professional linguists as to whether, in aggregate, these features make Scots a language, or merely a dialect. Geoffrey Pullum, an Englishman at t

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Pronunciation is not enough to make Scots a language, or the Geordie English spoken in the north-east of England would be one, too. But it also has its own vocabulary, which goes b

2020-02-17 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》版块Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏A cup o’ kindness
一杯善意的酒A politically charged debate over the status of the Scots tongue
关于苏格兰语地位的政治辩

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain decided that it would not ban “high-risk vendors” from parts of its 5g network. Despite the generic language, the decision is mostly about Huawei, which will thus be able

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The chains are held together by bonds between the carbon atoms.
碳链是由碳原子间的键连接在一起的。These are of two varieties, known as single and double bonds.
化学键有两种，单键

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
一周要闻Business
商业The problems mounted at Boeing, as it more than doubled the cost it expects to incur from the grounding of the 737 max airliner, to $18.6

2020-02-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Under him the carol service became more ecumenical and open. It had more Latin, like the weekly services, which now featured Latin masses and canticles. His Anglican suspicion of t

2020-02-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Since the first use of fingerprints to identify and convict a murderer, in 1892,
自从1892年首次使用指纹来识别并定罪谋杀犯以来，detectives the world over have come to rely heavily

2020-02-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Indeed, in financial services the implicit sale of personal data is seen as a way in which the poor can be "levelled up".
确实，在金融服务业，隐性出售个人数据被视为“拉平”穷人的一

2020-02-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His training was more than adequate: chorister at Worcester Cathedral, organ scholar at St John's, Cambridge, later a fearless conductor, with the Philharmonic and the Britten

2020-02-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Manufacturing workers have long faced these kind of numerical targets, as well as the need to clock in and out of work. The big change is that similar metrics and rating systems ar

2020-02-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For those seeking to help the worst-off in poor countries, the mobile phone has been a magic wand.
对于那些想要帮助贫穷国家中最贫穷者的人来说，手机就像一根魔杖。Mobile-money acco

2020-02-11 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I am Number 0.6
我是0.6个工人How modern workers are at the mercy of ratings
现代工人是如何受评级影响的A close friend of Bartle

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Butterflies engaged in all of these heat-minimising activities even when the researchers blindfolded them.
即使研究人员蒙住它们的眼睛，蝴蝶也会进行所有这些减少热量的活动。That su

2020-02-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Many experts praise China’s efforts. Certainly, its scientists have coped better with the Wuhan virus than they did with SARS in 2003, rapidly detecting it, sequencing its g

2020-02-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A butterfly's wings can have many jobs besides keeping the insect aloft.
蝴蝶翅膀除了保持昆虫在空中飞行外，还有许多其他的功能。They may be called on to attract mates, to warn

2020-02-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The outbreak began in December. The repeated mingling of people and animals in China means that viral mutations that infect humans are likely to arise there; and mass migration to

2020-02-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于2月1日刊《社论》版块How bad will it get?
情况会糟糕到何种境地？The coronavirus is likely to become a pandemic. That need not be as catastrophic as it sounds
新型冠

2020-02-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Prices, according to economists, are determined by supply and demand, acting like the twin blades of a pair of scissors.
经济学家认为，价格是由供需决定的，就像剪刀的双刃一样。But

2020-02-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Few measures are as unpopular with the profession, which sees prices as both a signal of scarcity and a spur to overcome it.
很少有措施像这个行业那样不受欢迎，这个行业认为价格既是

2020-02-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Sir Stephen Cleobury, musical director for 37 years of King's College, Cambridge, died on November 22nd, aged 70
斯蒂芬·克劳伯里爵士曾任剑桥大学国王学院音乐总监37年，他于11月