2019-02-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet slowbalisation has two big disadvantages. First, it creates new difficulties. In 1990-2010 most emerging countries were able to close some of the gap with developed ones. Now m

2019-02-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ford and Volkswagen launched an alliance through which they will work together on making pickup trucks for the global market and commercial vans in Europe. The carmakers said they

2019-02-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Trade is suffering as firms use up the inventories they had stocked in anticipation of higher tariffs. Expect more of this in 2019. But what really matters is firms’ long-term inv

2019-02-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Globalisation has slowed from light speed to a snail’s pace in the past decade for several reasons. The cost of moving goods has stopped falling. Multinational firms have found th

2019-02-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Slowbalisation
全球化速度减缓A new pattern of world commerce is becoming clearer—as are its costs
一种新的世界商业模式正变得越来越清晰——其成本也是如此When Ameri

2019-01-31 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Worse-than-expected trade data from China accentuated concerns about the country’s economic slowdown. Exports fell by 4.4% in Decem

2019-01-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Concerns about the health of livestock have also led the EU to pass some of the world’s strictest animal-welfare laws. Battery cages for egg-laying hens were banned in 2012, for i

2019-01-29 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain's future relationship with Europe is still uncertain after the overwhelming defeat of Theresa May's deal in Parliament on January 15th.
英国与欧洲未来的关系仍是个未知数，

2019-01-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Similarly, the European Union banned the import of chlorinated American chicken in 1997, owing to concern that a chlorine wash allows lower hygiene standards in farms. Arguments ov

2019-01-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The intense use of antibiotics means that farmers no longer need to spend much time worrying about their chickens’ welfare. Before the second world war, most birds were raise

2019-01-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Dr Watson's views about race and intelligence seem to stem from his keen interest in "The Bell Curve",
沃森博士关于种族和智商的观点似乎源于他对《钟形曲线》的强烈兴趣，a book p

2019-01-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Protests against official corruption gathered strength in Mongolia. Perhaps 20,000 people gathered in Ulaanbaatar, the capital, despite the winter freeze to denounce the conduct of

2019-01-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

International
《国际》版块Chickenomics
鸡肉经济Ruling the roost
称雄COLCHESTER AND GREENWOOD
科尔切斯特和格林伍德How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat
鸡

2019-01-23 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Theresa May's Brexit deal suffered a crushing defeat in the British Parliament. Leavers who think the deal does not go far enough in dis

2019-01-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A big one is institutional pressure. A child’s time spent with a second language is time not spent on their first. So teachers often discourage parents from speaking their languag

2019-01-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

James watson, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA,
诺贝尔奖得主、和弗朗西斯·克里克共同发现NDA双螺旋结构的詹姆斯·沃森has never

2019-01-22 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Johnson
约翰逊专栏Keeping it in the family
家族传承For expat parents, passing on their native languages can be a struggle
外籍父母想要下一代传

2019-01-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The project now involves dozens of companies, including BP, an oil major, and Socar and TPAO, the state oil companies of Azerbaijan and Turkey respectively.
现在该项目涉及几十家公

2019-01-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For years, western European countries have worried about their access to gas, almost two-fifths of which is supplied by Russian pipes.
多年来，西欧国家都对自己获取天然气的渠道表示

2019-01-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This gives Chinese scientists an incentive to observe international rules—because that is what will win its researchers access to the best conferences, laboratories and journals,

2019-01-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Trump's trade agenda could hardly be more different.
特朗普的贸易议程可能完全不同。His "America First" rhetoric, threats of tariffs on allies and of withdrawal from the WTO

2019-01-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Such is the pressure on Chinese scientists to make breakthroughs that some put ends before means. Last year He Jiankui, an academic from Shenzhen, edited the genomes of embryos wit

2019-01-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

America’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule. Thule, which is part of the Kuiper belt of asteroids beyond the orbit of Neptune, is the most distant object visited

2019-01-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In the post-war period American governments tended to side with the purists.
在战后时期，美国政府倾向支持纯粹主义者。But according to Anne Krueger of Johns Hopkins University, wri

2019-01-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Red moon rising
红月升起If China dominates science, should the world worry?
如果中国主导科学，世界应该担心吗？A hundred years ago a wave of student protests broke over China&rsqu