2019-07-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Hard currency
硬通货币In a project with so many moving parts, much can go wrong. Although Facebook says it has a working prototype, the technology is untested; sceptics doubt that

2019-07-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This sounds good for the EU, but it is likely to be a pyrrhic victory. The continent’s financial system is balkanised and dominated by sluggish banks. New business will be spread

2019-07-05 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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was humiliated by voters, as his attempt to reverse the mayoral election in Istanbul, whi

2019-07-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A visitor to Moscow inquiring about the outlook for Russia's economy
前往莫斯科大厅俄罗斯经济前景的访客will often be met with answers that take a detour into the country's past.

2019-07-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Technically and financially, Facebook could probably pull off such an ambitious undertaking on its own. But not politically. Its culture is less amoral than it was in its youth, wh

2019-07-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The first is by ripping up the legal framework, as the EU cancels the “passports” that let City firms operate across the continent. Activity may move in search of certainty. The

2019-07-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This technique scans a tooth and measures the complexity of its surfaces.
这项技术扫描牙齿并测量其表面的复杂性。Use of OPCR has demonstrated, in a quantifiable manner, that diet i

2019-07-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Compared with mammals, living members of the crocodile clan have exceptionally boring dentition.
和哺乳动物相比，现存鳄鱼家族的成员有着异常无趣的牙列。From the slender-snouted gha

2019-07-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

London’s prowess is something to behold. It hosts 37% of the world’s currency dealing and 18% of cross-border lending. It is a hub for derivatives, asset management, insurance an

2019-07-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Master and apprentice
大师与学徒David Esterly, wood-carver, died on June 15th, aged 75
木雕艺术家大卫·埃斯特利于6月15日去世，享年75岁It might happen at any time of day. Da

2019-07-02 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Can the City survive Brexit?
伦敦金融城能否挺过英国退欧?The biggest international financial centre in the world faces its toughest test
世界上最大的国际

2019-07-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Sometimes they succeed. In 2012 Julia Gillard, Australia’s prime minister, gave her renowned “misogyny speech”, lambasting her rival Tony Abbott for referring to Ms Gillard “ma

2019-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ms Manne distinguishes between sexist beliefs and systemic prejudice. For instance, the idea that women have certain innate characteristics (being loving and nurturing, say) and na

2019-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books and Arts
来源于《图书与艺术》版块Johnson
约翰逊语言专栏In the beginning is the word
太初有道之词意变化Changing the meaning of a word is hard but not impossible
改变词的意

2019-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The G20 countries could use their voting power at the IMF to insist it stores the data.
G20国可以利用它们在IMF的投票权坚持由其保存数据。Their endorsement will have weight with the

2019-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His feelings for Sunny changed in different lights. They had been happy early on and had a daughter, Cosima, whom he adored. He and Sunny fell out because she did not like him work

2019-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

How to stop governments borrowing behind their people's backs
如何阻止政府背着人民借贷In 2016 the government of Mozambique confessed to secret debts of $1.4bn, or 11% of GDP,

2019-07-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If the project lives up to the mock-ups, buying, selling, holding, sending and receiving Libras will become a doddle. It can be done in Facebook’s Messenger app or WhatsApp, anoth

2019-06-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Jean-Dominique Senard, Renault’s chairman, admitted that relations with Nissan, the French carmaker’s alliance partner, were tense, but said that they could rebuild tru

2019-06-27 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Facebook
脸书Coin flip
抛硬币The social network’s grand designs for virtual cash could be surprisingly consequential—including for itself

2019-06-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Intuition-1 will view a 15km-wide swathe of Earth at a resolution of 25 metres per pixel.
Intuition-1将以每像素25米的分辨率观测15公里宽的地球带。This will be able to reveal detail

2019-06-27 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 proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, first floated in April last year, faced a fresh hurdle as a group of American states led by C

2019-06-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The pet business is growing even faster than pet numbers, because people are spending more and more money on them. No longer are they food-waste-recyclers, fed with the scraps that

2019-06-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Speeding up the processing of space images
加快空间图像处理Much of the information that is beamed back from space is useless.
从太空传回来的许多信息是没用的。Pictures taken by sa

2019-06-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The "von Bülow" itself was slightly misleading. His father's side was Danish; his mother, whose name was Bülow, had distant German nobility. His English upbringing endowed hi