2019-05-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Today hardliners are ascendant on both sides. Bellicose rhetoric has returned. Mr Bolton and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, believe in using economic pressure to topple the I

2019-05-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That would trigger yet more political turmoil, which could bring protesters onto the streets and send foreign capital running for the exit.
这么做会引发更多的政治动荡，会让抗议者们

2019-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
《社论》版块Collision course
剑拔弩张As tensions rise between America and Iran, both sides need to step back
随着美国和伊朗之间的紧张局势升级，双方都需要退后一步The drum

2019-05-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A central bank's words have power. Three of them ("whatever it takes") calmed the euro area's debt panic in 2012.
央行的话语颇具有分量。2012年，其中三家（“竭尽所能”）

2019-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

She is unsurprised when crossover hits struggle. Whereas Ms Jade’s American side related to “Crazy Rich Asians”, she says her Chinese side found it over the top, and even “fa

2019-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Before “Avengers: Endgame”, the world’s most successful film this year had been a Chinese science-fiction epic, “Wandering Earth”. But it owed this mainly to its popularity at

2019-05-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Federal programmes like Medicare, which provides health care for the elderly,
联邦项目，比如为老年人提供健康医疗的Medicare，often pay hospitals for antibiotics as part of bundled

2019-05-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The demise of Achaogen has been blamed on the peculiar features of the antibiotics market,
Achaogen的破产被归咎于抗生素市场的独特特征，rather than the poor business decisions of i

2019-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

China
《中国》版块Chaguan
茶馆Weak tea doesn’t sell
淡茶不易卖A Chinese-American film star explains why blandly globalised fare flops in China
一位美籍华人电影明星解释了为什么

2019-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Indonesian government declared its intention to move its capital. Jakarta, with a population of 30m, is congested and polluted. Although a new location has not yet been chosen,

2019-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Getting hold of penicillin in 1943 was a lottery in America.
1943年，在美国想要获得青霉素简直就得碰运气。The "miracle drug" had been discovered 15 years earlier but production cap

2019-05-09 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Juan Guaidó, who is recognised as interim president of Venezuela by many democracies, appeared outside an air-force base in Carac

2019-05-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The real economy had also shown some signs of an approaching downturn, however.
但实体经济也显示出一些衰退即将来临的迹象。Business confidence had soured and the housing market, so

2019-05-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Investors started the year brooding about the risk of an American recession.
年初，投资者就对美国经济衰退的风险忧心忡忡。Torsten Slok of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender,

2019-05-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This is not just despicable, it is dangerous. India is too combustible a place to be put into the hands of politicians who campaign with flamethrowers. As it is, vigilantes often b

2019-05-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Top of the list is that master of disguise, the mimic octopus,
排在名单首位的是伪装大师—拟态章鱼，which evades predators by masquerading as other, venomous, animals—lionfish, se

2019-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This impetuousness disguised as decisiveness has infected economic policymaking, too. In 2016 Mr Modi abruptly cancelled most Indian banknotes in an effort to thwart money-laun-der

2019-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
《社论》India’s election
印度大选Agent Orange
橙剂Under Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party poses a risk to democracy
在纳伦德拉•莫迪的领导下，印度人民

2019-05-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Muck diving sounds the very antithesis of coral-reef diving.
漫潜听起来与珊瑚礁潜水相对立。Reef divers swim through a world of colourful coral heads populated by strikingly patter

2019-05-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When their performance is reviewed, Ms Criado Perez argues that women are criticised for being bossy,
当评论她们的表现时，克里亚多·佩雷斯争辩称，女性因专横、abrasive or str

2019-05-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On top of all this, Mr Wickremesinghe says that some of the bombers had been to Syria; they are likely to have been among the three dozen Sri Lankans who have fought with IS. In sh

2019-05-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
《社论》Sri Lanka
斯里兰卡Easter evil
复活节恶魔The bombers wanted to provoke a clash of civilisations. Don’t fall into their trap
炸弹袭击者想挑起一场文明冲突，不

2019-05-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Pregnant women have limited mobility. That is obvious to anyone who has had a baby,
孕妇行动不便。任何生过孩子的人都知道but didn't occur to the founders of Google when they desig

2019-05-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

UniCredit’s parent company and the Italian bank’s German and Austrian subsidiaries reached a settlement with American regulators for violating sanctions against Iran, Libya and o

2019-04-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It is possible that population is destiny, other things equal, but other things are never equal.
如果其他事物都不发生变化，那么人口或许就是命运，但是其他事物不可能不变。And so a p