2019-04-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Paradoxically, the most direct applications of da Vinci's researches outside art are to be found within his art. His understanding of physics, botany and geology vastly enhance

2019-04-29 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Chevron agreed to take over Anadarko in a $49bn deal. The acquisition expands Chevron’s shale-oil assets in America’s Permian

2019-04-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution, Asia's massively populous societies made the continent the world's centre of economic gravity.
工业革命几个世纪前，亚洲的人口大

2019-04-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaning against this force, however, is migration. Right now, the richest places are not the most populous.
但扭转这股力量的因素是移民。现在，最富有的地方并非那些人口众多的国家。S

2019-04-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Like many an autodidact, da Vinci was long on inquisitiveness but short on intellectual self-discipline. He had astonishing powers of observation, an extraordinary talent for makin

2019-04-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

By the subsequent generation, however— the grandchildren of the flood's survivors—
但到后一代—洪水幸存者的孙子辈—they started creeping downhill again, closer to the river,

2019-04-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The United Conservative Party won an election in the oil-producing Canadian province of Alberta. The incoming premier, Jason Kenney, is expected to abolish the province’s tax

2019-04-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books and Arts
《图书与艺术》版块Art history
艺术史Leonardo and us
达·芬奇和我们Contemporary reverence for da Vinci is more about our age than his oeuvre
当代对于达芬奇的

2019-04-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

After HURRICANE BETSY pummelled New Orleans in 1965,
1965年飓风贝齐席卷新奥尔良后，causing damage so severe that "Betsy" was retired from the rotating list of names given to Atlan

2019-04-23 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Notre Dame, a medieval cathedral immortalised by Victor Hugo, Hollywood and innumerable tourist selfies, caught fire. More than 400 firef

2019-04-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet the emotions the sight aroused were less about the building itself than about what losing it might mean. Notre Dame is an expression of humanity at its collective best. Nobody

2019-04-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Shineco, a biotech company whose market capitalisation on New York's Nasdaq exchange
生物科技公司天益嘉华（该公司在纽约纳斯达克交易所的市场总值has nearly doubled to $25m since

2019-04-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Notre Dame
巴黎圣母院The human spark
人类火花It is not wrong to care more about a building than about people
比起关心人，更关心建筑本身并没有错“What is civilisation?&rdquo

2019-04-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The hemp plant has a storied history in China. It was probably twisted into the world's first rope there around 2,800bc.
中国麻类植物种植历史悠久。公元前2800年，麻类植物可能就被拧

2019-04-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Case closed? Not so fast. Those who doubt that competition has weakened attribute such findings to the rise of "superstar" firms.
结案了？没那么快。那些怀疑竞争被削弱的人将这些发现

2019-04-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Physicists' quest for a "theory of everything" is well-known.
物理学家对“万有理论”的追求人尽皆知。The equivalent in economics is the hunt for common causes for the ri

2019-04-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

China
《中国》版块Regional discrimination
地域歧视Province and prejudice
省份与偏见Life is often hard for internal migrants in China, especially those from Henan and the north-

2019-04-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

But Sichuan-style broths are the most commonly savoured in China. In recent years their popularity has been booming. China has around 350,000 hotpot restaurants. About 40,000 of th

2019-04-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Islami's operating profits for 2018 were 27.7bn taka ($330m), a 14.5% increase from 2017.
伊斯兰银行2018年的营业利润是272亿塔卡（3.3亿美元），比2017年增长14.5%。But net profit

2019-04-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Carlos Ghosn announced a forthcoming press conference “to tell the truth”, presumably about the charges he faces for financial misconduct at Nissan. He was rearrested s

2019-04-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

China
《中国》版块Regional cuisine
地方菜The gripes of broth
火锅汤的抱怨Two cities tussle over who makes the tastiest Sichuan hotpot
两个城市争相认为自己做的火锅更好吃Chengdu,

2019-04-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

"It's like the Midas effect in reverse," says Badiul Majumdar of shujan, an anti-corruption pressure group.
“就像是倒放的米达斯效应一样，”反腐败压力群体shujan的Badiul

2019-04-16 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 a prospectus published ahead of a huge bond sale, Saudi Aramco revealed for the first time how much money it makes. Saudi Arabia&rsquo

2019-04-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Take regulation first. The system is a strange blend: there are pockets of laissez-faire attitudes here,
先说说法规。该体系是一个奇怪的混合：这里是零星的自由放任态度thickets of ru

2019-04-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Lori Lightfoot won a run-off election to become Chicago’s mayor, and will be the first black woman and gay person to hold the office. Ms Lightfoot trounced Toni Preckwinkle,