2019-06-26 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Pet theories
宠物理论Reigning cats and dogs
“统治阶级”猫猫狗狗As pet ownership booms, a troubling question rears its head: who owns whom?

2019-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It all sounds promising in theory. Whether cloud gaming will catch on, though, remains uncertain, for it is technically much more demanding than existing streaming services. Unlike

2019-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bussiness
来源于《商业》版块Computer games
电脑游戏Unconsoled
无法安慰Cloud computing is coming to the video-gaming business
云计算正在进入电子游戏行业More than 70,000 gamers,

2019-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Oil has fuelled the opera boom, but Western expertise has helped. Jasper Hope, formerly of the Royal Albert Hall in London and now chief executive of Dubai Opera, has introduced a

2019-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If India's statistics are overstated, who or what is to blame?
如果印度的统计数据被夸大，那么哪些人或物应受到责怪呢？Political meddling is an inadequate answer, although this

2019-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But then he was acquitted. In 1984 his conviction was over-turned, because the black bag had been taken without a searchwarrant and the first investigator's notes had not been

2019-06-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Dozens of people, including several children, were killed in a Dogon village in central Mali. The murders were blamed on a Fulani militia and are the latest in a series of tit-for-

2019-06-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Almost two years ago Arvind Subramanian, then India's chief economic adviser,
两年前，印度时任首席经济顾问阿文德·萨勃拉曼尼亚published a little-noticed passage in the fina

2019-06-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books and Arts
来源于《图书和艺术》版块Culture in the Middle East
中东的文化The sultan’s song
苏丹之歌How Gulf rulers learned to love opera
海湾地区的统治者是如何爱上歌剧

2019-06-21 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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was confirmed as Kazakhstan’s president in an election in which he won 71% of the vote—somewhat less th

2019-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
来源于《美国》版块Burying the poor
埋葬穷人Potters’ fields
伯德菲尔德公园What happens to the corpses of those who die poor or unclaimed in NYC
那些死在纽约的

2019-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Both teams made use of "jumping genes" or transposons (often called selfish genes),
两个团队都利用“跳跃基因”或转座因子（常被称为自私的基因）which are pieces of DNA that seem to

2019-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Asia
来源于《亚洲》版块Recycling
回收利用Refusing refuse
拒绝废弃物South-East Asia is fed up with foreign waste
东南亚受够了外国垃圾There is no point collecting recyclable wast

2019-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

As far as experts are concerned, the technology of gene editing is nowhere near ready to be used to create gene-edited babies.
就专家而言，基因编辑技术还远不足以被用于创造基因编辑

2019-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Claus von Bülow, socialite and protagonist of two sensational American trials, died on May 25th, aged 92. In every person's life, Claus von Bülow said once, there remain

2019-06-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Italy was unified far later, in the 19th century. “Italian” was thus created by the pen, not the sword. The 13th- and 14thcentury works of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio were the

2019-06-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Throughout the Dark Ages, the few literate Europeans continued to write in classical Latin. Or they tried to: as their speech evolved, their writing sometimes mutated to match it.

2019-06-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books and Arts
来源于《图书和艺术》版块Johnson
《约翰逊》语言专栏The Roman way
罗马精神Latin is dead—yet, as Italian (and French, and Spanish), it lives on
拉丁语已经消亡了，但

2019-06-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That message was not lost in China. Several local reports quoted a line by Charles Li,
这一信息并没有在中国丢失。一些本地报道引用了the head of Hong Kong's stock exchange: "Tho

2019-06-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The first trial got under way in Oklahoma of a drugmaker facing claims that its marketing of painkillers fuelled the opioid crisis. Johnson & Johnson argues that it followed the la

2019-06-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In 1974 he managed to return; later he built, for the government, a hotel complex at Fragrant Hill outside Beijing. He seized on this as a chance to wean the Chinese away from thei

2019-06-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The damage to America’s economy so far has been deceptively small. Tariffs cause agony in export hubs such as northern Mexico, but even if Mr Trump imposes all his threatened tari

2019-06-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

American investors wanting a piece of Chinese firms,
想从中国公司分一杯羹的美国投资者，whether state-owned oil majors or tech stars, need not stray beyond Wall Street.
不论是国有

2019-06-14 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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles confirmed that it was seeking a merger with Renault, a combination that would create the world’s third-largest

2019-06-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

First, instead of using tariffs as a tool to extract specific economic concessions, they are being continuously deployed to create a climate of instability with America’s trading