2019-11-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet oil markets have shrugged it all off.
然而，石油市场对此不屑一顾。"In the past such geopolitical tensions gave a boost to oil prices," says Fatih Birol, the head of the IEA.

2019-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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来源于《社论》版块Aircraft-carriers
航空母舰Sink or swim
自主浮沉When it comes to aircraft-carriers, bigger isn’t better
航空母舰并不是越大越好“No piece of

2019-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, live in a state of uneasy anticipation.
石油输出国组织（简称OPEC）成员国正处于一种不安的预期之中。Concer

2019-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Whether it was odd alleyways in a town, or random birds and mushrooms on a hunting trip, he was always lagging behind, appreciating them. One of his pilot-training photos showed hi

2019-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Given all these hurdles, will break-ups ever happen? Sector-wide divestitures seem unlikely, but even Makan Delrahim, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, said

2019-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

No platforming
去平台化Separating platforms from services which run on them sounds elegant. But how would one divvy up all the data the tech giants have collected? What is part of

2019-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Even though most analysts assume that the separate parts are worth more than the whole, could the opposite be true? Breakups could destroy value. Synergies would evaporate, points

2019-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To get around this the team have worked out how to minimise cost by using carbon-fibre rebars only where strictly necessary.
为了解决这个问题，该团队研究出了如何通过只在必要的地方

2019-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Similar tactics are used to deter women from running for public office. In the run-up to elections in Iraq last year, two female candidates were humiliated with explicit videos, wh

2019-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In the vacuum of space his space suit expanded, until he could not get back into the craft without bleeding it of oxygen. Moreover, in minutes, the craft's orbit would take it

2019-11-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Modern civilisation is built on concrete and steel. Put the two together, though, and you can generate a problem.
现代文明是建立在钢筋混凝土基础上的。然而，将两者结合起来，就会产生

2019-11-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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来源于《社论》版块Fake nudes
虚假裸体Sex, lies and politics
性、谎言和政治As deepfake technology spreads, expect more bogus sex tapes of female politicians
随着deepfake

2019-11-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The economy remains vulnerable to outside shocks.
经济仍然容易受到外部冲击。On October 29th America's House of Representatives voted to restrict arms sales to Turkey,
10月29日

2019-11-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Microsoft won a $10bn contract to create a “war-fighter” cloud-computing system for the Pentagon. The decision to award the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JED

2019-11-14 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The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for the third time this year, shaving off another quarter of a percentage point to a

2019-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, once called high interest rates "the mother of all evil".
土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安曾称高利率是“万恶之母&rdqu

2019-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space and create art there, died on October 11th, aged 85.
阿里克谢·列昂诺夫是首位在太空行走并在那里创造了艺术的人类。他于10月11日去世，享

2019-11-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What eludes computers is creativity. By virtue of having been trained on past compositions, they can only be derivative. Furthermore, they cannot conceive a topic or goal on their

2019-11-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

What eludes computers is creativity. By virtue of having been trained on past compositions, they can only be derivative. Furthermore, they cannot conceive a topic or goal on their

2019-11-11 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Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏Don’t fear the Writernator
不要害怕机器写手Computer-generated writing will never replace the human kind
计算机生成

2019-11-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Since a cow has about the same greenhouse effect as a car, cutting the emissions of even a portion of the world's 1.5bn cattle would bring great benefit.
既然一头牛所产生的温室

2019-11-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Going forward, we need three priorities. First, to get costs under control. The soup-to-nuts cost for an MBA at Stanford is $232,000—out of our ballpark. The five-star accommodati

2019-11-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A product of France's elite schools, including ena, he was better linked in the public mind with his love of rural Corrèze, where his grandfathers came from: its paysans, its

2019-11-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ancient Greek writings describe livestock eating seaweed, as do Icelandic sagas.
古希腊文字中有关于家畜食用海藻的描述，冰岛的传奇故事中也有。And, as the picture shows, sheep on No

2019-11-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

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来源于《社论》版块The future of management education
管理教育的未来The MBA, disrupted
MBA，中断了We have obtained a copy of a recent letter to a business dean
我们获得了