2019-12-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A year ago an economic forecasting unit in the Chinese government published an outlook for the coming year.
一年前，中国政府的一个经济预测部门发布了明年的经济展望。The big worry,

2019-12-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He was the 41st killer to be interviewed by Mr Oppenheimer. He gloated over how they used to crush their victims' necks with wooden staves, How they hanged them, strangled them

2019-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That leaves a low bar for the Liberal Democrats, and they clear it. They, too, have become more extreme since we backed them in 2017. Under a new leader, Jo Swinson, they have gone

2019-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rocketing art prices are attracting evermore daring criminals. On November 13th intruders were walking out of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London with two Rembrandts when they we

2019-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It was all a bit of a lark, until someone tried to ban American films, and the gangsters' business slumped. As he grew older, he moved from cinema tickets into petty smuggling

2019-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Whether that is seen as a failure, though, depends on your point of view.
这个计划的失败与否取决于你怎么看。Had the target been reached easily is would surely have been criticised

2019-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Conservatives, too, have grown scarier since 2017. Mr Johnson has ditched the Brexit deal negotiated by Theresa May and struck a worse one, in effect lopping off Northern Irela

2019-12-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Bartleby’s experience, office parties come in three types. The first is the sitdown lunch, in which you are inevitably seated next to someone whose name you do not know, even t

2019-12-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
来源于《图书与艺术》版块Dresden’s Green Vault
德累斯顿绿穹珍宝馆Ocean’s Eight on the Elbe
易北河上的瞒天过海BERLIN
柏林Thieves make off with bejewelled

2019-12-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On the principle that no news is good news, the fact that aids has dropped out of the headlines is surely a good thing.
基于没有消息就是好消息的原则，艾滋病不再是头条新闻无疑是一件

2019-12-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bartleby
巴托比职场专栏Let them eat Christmas cake
何不食圣诞蛋糕Don’t make seasonal festivities too formal
不要让年会太正式Everyone feels like winding down in December. E

2019-12-12 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Britain’s nightmare before Christmas
圣诞节前英国的噩梦A divided country faces an election that will tear it still further apart
一个分裂的国家面临着一

2019-12-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

America has had some wins at the WTO: against the European Union for subsidies to Airbus, an aircraft-maker;
美国已经在WTO取得了一些胜利：反对欧盟对飞机制造商空客的补贴；and again

2019-12-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Brazilian real fell to a new low against the dollar, after Brazil’s finance minister said he was “not worried” about a strong greenback. The slide prompted a

2019-12-11 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In the biggest-ever takeover in the luxury-goods industry, LVMH, a French global conglomerate, announced its acquisition of Tiffany, an A

2019-12-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"Winter is coming," warned a Norwegian representative on November 22nd, at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
“寒冬要来了，”11月22日一名挪威代表在世界贸易

2019-12-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Anwar Congo, a perpetrator of the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-68, died on October 25th, aged 78
安瓦尔·冈戈是1965年至1968年的印尼大屠杀的一个凶手，他于10月25日去世，享年7

2019-12-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Assuming that human messages actually reach their target, what would earthlings and aliens talk about? The obvious subject to focus on is mathematics; its basic concepts are often

2019-12-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ms Monk and her co-authors question the first assumption by pointing out that
Monk女士和她的共著者质疑了第一个假设，他们指出many animals seem to mate at a frequency far higher tha

2019-12-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He imposed the sharia in which he was expert: hands hacked off for stealing, whippings for drunkenness, adulterous women stoned. He also expanded it, justifying everything smoothly

2019-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏How to talk to aliens
如何与外星人交谈The challenge says a lot about talk among people, too
这个挑战也说明了很多人与人沟通的问题Imagine dining in a Europea

2019-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, faced a challenge to his leadership after being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases. Mr Net

2019-12-06 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China has 276 embassies and other diplomatic offices, more than any other country, according to the Lowy Institute, a think-tank. It pass

2019-12-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When it comes to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church.
说到性行为，动物王国是一个广教派。Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with crea

2019-12-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Schwab could not go on charging $4.95 a pop. Still less could TD Ameritrade keep asking $6.95.
嘉信理财不能再继续收取4.95美元的费用了。德美利证券也不收取6.95美元的没用了。Admitted