2020-02-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Still more threatening is Iran’s nuclear programme. Mr Trump pulled America out of the agreement with Iran, signed in 2015 with six world powers, which limited its ability to get

2020-01-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

And yet Iran’s thirst for revenge is surely not slaked. Even if they avoid overt forms of aggression, the Revolutionary Guards are likely to pursue other tactics, including cyber-

2020-01-21 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Masterstroke or madness?
妙举还是愚蠢的行为？Donald Trump wants to curb Iran’s aggression. The question is whether he has gone about it the right way

2020-01-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In his time as a Treasury official in the 1960s he had laboured to maintain the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, which had built an international monetary system round pegging the

2020-01-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Both groups hope to get around these complications, but in different ways.
两组人都希望避免这些问题，但使用的方式不同。The researchers at Berkeley, led by Omar Yaghi, announced th

2020-01-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If you live in a desert, maintaining a supply of fresh water is a challenge.
如果你生活在沙漠中，保持淡水的供应是个挑战。One answer is desalination, but that needs a source of bri

2020-01-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Babbel, which makes a popular language- learning app, has collected a host of climate-related neologisms from European languages. Flygskam is perhaps the most likely to be permanen

2020-01-13 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Climate-speak
关于气候的表达Of train-boasts, plane-shame and electric automobiles
火车、飞机和电动汽车Identifying shi

2020-01-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

7. Keep meetings short. Ideally, a meeting should be the length of a sitcom episode not a film by Martin Scorsese. Bartleby’s law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at m

2020-01-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

4. Make your priorities for the next year clear, and communicate them well. Is the company (or division) trying to launch a new product? Or to boost sales of existing products? Or

2020-01-13 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A manager’s manifesto
一位经理的宣言Eight resolutions to adopt in 2020
2020年适用的八项计划The start of the year is tradition

2020-01-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He was happy, even at the Fed, to wear crumpled suits, live in a students' apartment block and fly coach back to New York and the family at weekends. (His salary had fallen by

2020-01-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Intriguingly, after the new deal was announced it refrained from mentioning any numerical targets.
有趣的是，新协议宣布后，其也没有提及任何数字目标。Whether that is because it is

2020-01-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He was struck by Friedrich Hayek's observation that the only way inflation cured unemployment was by disguising cuts in real wages. This linked inflation and deception indelibl

2020-01-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

American trade deals typically stretch to thousands of pages.
美国的贸易协定通常长达数千页。The new "phase one" trade deal between America and China takes up only 86.
美国和中国新

2020-01-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Delegates in Madrid drew up guidelines for environmentally sound trading principles for this putative market.
在马德里的代表们为这个假定的市场制定了无害环境的贸易原则准则。What th

2020-01-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed and America's doughtiest inflation-fighter, died on December 8th, aged 92 保罗·沃尔克是美联储主席和美国最勇猛的通货膨胀斗士，他于12月8日去

2020-01-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Annual UN climate summits are never moments of unbridled optimism,
每年一度的联合国气候峰会从来不是盲目乐观的时刻，but this year's, held in Madrid and dubbed COP25, was partic

2020-01-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Meanwhile, although racism persists, the pervasive discrimination of earlier ages has waned. Witness the presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, in which his ethnicity has scarcely b

2020-01-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That, in truth, was a consoling simplification. Americans have traditionally been willing to pay through the nose at French or Italian joints (where, in fact, Latinos often do most

2020-01-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The comfort of strangers
陌生人的慰藉Chinese restaurants began to open in America in the mid-19th century, clustering on the west coast where the first immigrants landed. They mos

2020-01-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
来源于《图书与艺术》版块Immigration on a plate
盘子上的移民A bao in every steamer
每个蒸笼上都有一个包子The development of Chinese-American cuisine reflects the com

2020-01-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The more Tours he lost, the more the crowds liked him and the more he earned. At the height of his celebrity, in the mid-1970s, almost half of respondents to one poll made him thei

2020-01-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The past 12 months give reason for scepticism. In December 2018 OPEC and its partners agreed to reduce output by 1.2m barrels a day.
过去12个月的种种给了我们怀疑的理由。2018年12月

2020-01-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

With his lined, wind-burned face and slow Limousin drawl, he reminded his followers of the old ways, la France profonde and all kinds of comforting verities that had been pushed as