2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The state’s deregulated power market is also fiercely competitive. ERCOT oversees the grid, while power generators produce electricity for the wholesale market. Some 300 retail el

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The short answer is that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the grid, did not properly forecast the demand for energy as a result of the storm. Some

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块A perfect storm
屋漏偏逢连夜雨Light a candle for the kids
为孩子们点一支蜡烛The freeze in Texas exposes America’s infrastructural failings
得州的冻结暴露

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

That adventure was to last a lifetime. Over the decades he won 23 Grammys and 67 nominations for his reinvigoration of jazz. He played to packed houses the world over, touring with

2021-03-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

To date a specimen, fragments of its DNA are compared to corresponding chunks from known descendants. Armed with a few evolutionary rules-of-thumb, scientists can calculate how lon

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Much like other central banks, the ECB wants to offer consumers digital tender that is as safe as physical cash. Unlike bank deposits, a claim on central-bank reserves carries no c

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Digital currencies 数字货币Token gestures 代币行动Bitcoin grabs the headlines, but the real action is at central banks 比特币常常占据新闻头条，但真正的进展发生在各国央行Anyone who

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

His first job will be to try to turn the firm’s ailing manufacturing division around. Intel already outsources the manufacturing of some lower-end chips to TSMC. Its producti

2021-03-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Palaeontology
古生物学Very, very long in the tooth
牙齿很长很长Million-year-old mammoth genomes push the limits of a revolutionary technique
百万年前的猛犸象基因组突破了一项革命

2021-03-03 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Manufacturing stumbles have cost it business. AMD, its most direct rival, outsources production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), whose technology is now ahead

2021-03-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Intel
英特尔Hard reboot
硬重启Can Pat Gelsinger turn the chipmaking giant around?
帕特·盖尔辛格能扭转芯片制造业巨头英特尔的颓势吗？“Success breeds complacenc

2021-03-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

An American judge ruled that a group of creditors that mistakenly received $500m from Citigroup did not have to repay the money to the bank. The creditors are in dispute with Revlo

2021-03-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 本周国际要闻Business 商业板块In an unexpected move, Facebook blocked news content on its sites in Australia, and also stopped people outside the country from vi

2021-03-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The degree to which it is felt, however, depends crucially on the policy response, both at home and abroad. Fiscal spillovers are more powerful when recipient countries are themsel

2021-03-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Radiant energy
辐射能If America's economy runs hot, what happens to the rest of the world?
如果美国经济过热，世界其他地区会发生什么？When america sneezes, the rest of the wo

2021-02-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Even the keenest advocates of immigration agree that speaking the language helps migrants integrate. But they argue that the focus should be on helping them do so, not on overly am

2021-02-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Biden administration said that asylum-seekers could cross America’s southern border to have their applications heard. Donald Trump had insisted they wait in Mexico.
拜登政府表

2021-02-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts 文艺板块Johnson Stress tests 约翰逊语言专栏——压力测试How to design language tests for citizenship—and how not to 如何设计入籍语言测试？要规避哪些方面

2021-02-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治版块A winter storm that covered three-quarters of America’s Lower 48 with snow brought havoc to southern states. A federal emergency

2021-02-22 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Perhaps this relates to human history. Mass urbanisation is a relatively recent development; if the history of human existence was squeezed into a single day, the Industrial Revolu

2021-02-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby You’ll often walk alone
巴托比专栏——你常独行Loneliness is a widespread problem with complex roots
孤独是一个普遍存在的问题，其根源很复杂There has be

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He is optimistic that getting vaccines to interested people will help reduce hesitation, too. But only if they can get to where the jabs are being offered. Mr Marte says some pensi

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Unless states and cities prioritise vaccinating non-whites, they are likely to fall behind. Yet if they do, that could create a backlash and result in legal challenges. According t

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Vaccinations
疫苗Access denied
拒绝使用Inoculating non-whites is the first step to reducing vaccine hesitation
为非白人接种疫苗是减少疫苗犹豫的第一步The b

2021-02-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This bonanza is a victory for those who spent the past decade attempting to make banks safer. In the past investment-bank earnings were more tied to the economy, thanks to fat port