2019-12-13 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Books & arts
來源于《圖書與藝術》版塊Dresden’s Green Vault
德累斯頓綠穹珍寶館Ocean’s Eight on the Elbe
易北河上的瞞天過海BERLIN
柏林Thieves make off with bejewelled

2019-12-13 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

On the principle that no news is good news, the fact that aids has dropped out of the headlines is surely a good thing.
基于沒有消息就是好消息的原則，艾滋病不再是頭條新聞無疑是一件

2019-12-12 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Bartleby
巴托比職場專欄Let them eat Christmas cake
何不食圣誕蛋糕Don’t make seasonal festivities too formal
不要讓年會太正式Everyone feels like winding down in December. E

2019-12-12 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Leaders
來源于《社論》版塊Britain’s nightmare before Christmas
圣誕節前英國的噩夢A divided country faces an election that will tear it still further apart
一個分裂的國家面臨著一

2019-12-12 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

America has had some wins at the WTO: against the European Union for subsidies to Airbus, an aircraft-maker;
美國已經在WTO取得了一些勝利：反對歐盟對飛機制造商空客的補貼；and again

2019-12-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The Brazilian real fell to a new low against the dollar, after Brazil’s finance minister said he was “not worried” about a strong greenback. The slide prompted a

2019-12-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The world this week
本周要聞Business
商業In the biggest-ever takeover in the luxury-goods industry, LVMH, a French global conglomerate, announced its acquisition of Tiffany, an A

2019-12-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

"Winter is coming," warned a Norwegian representative on November 22nd, at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
“寒冬要來了，”11月22日一名挪威代表在世界貿易

2019-12-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Anwar Congo, a perpetrator of the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-68, died on October 25th, aged 78
安瓦爾·岡戈是1965年至1968年的印尼大屠殺的一個兇手，他于10月25日去世，享年7

2019-12-11 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Assuming that human messages actually reach their target, what would earthlings and aliens talk about? The obvious subject to focus on is mathematics; its basic concepts are often

2019-12-09 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Ms Monk and her co-authors question the first assumption by pointing out that
Monk女士和她的共著者質疑了第一個假設，他們指出many animals seem to mate at a frequency far higher tha

2019-12-09 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

He imposed the sharia in which he was expert: hands hacked off for stealing, whippings for drunkenness, adulterous women stoned. He also expanded it, justifying everything smoothly

2019-12-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Johnson
約翰遜語言專欄How to talk to aliens
如何與外星人交談The challenge says a lot about talk among people, too
這個挑戰也說明了很多人與人溝通的問題Imagine dining in a Europea

2019-12-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, faced a challenge to his leadership after being charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three corruption cases. Mr Net

2019-12-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The world this week
本周要聞Politics
政治China has 276 embassies and other diplomatic offices, more than any other country, according to the Lowy Institute, a think-tank. It pass

2019-12-06 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

When it comes to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church.
說到性行為，動物王國是一個廣教派。Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with crea

2019-12-05 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Schwab could not go on charging $4.95 a pop. Still less could TD Ameritrade keep asking $6.95.
嘉信理財不能再繼續收取4.95美元的費用了。德美利證券也不收取6.95美元的沒用了。Admitted

2019-12-04 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The price war was swift and brutal, lasting less than eight weeks.
這場價格戰迅速又殘酷，持續了還不到8周的時間。On October 1st Charles Schwab said it would no longer charge retail

2019-12-04 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Many booms turn to bust. Unlike, say, WeWork, most entertainment firms have a plausible strategy, but too much cash is now chasing eyeballs. Netflix is burning $3bn a year and woul

2019-12-04 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

His nom de guerre, coined earlier, anticipated this day: Abu Bakr, the first caliph after Muhammad's death; al-Baghdadi, the Abbasids' capital. The caliphate itself was ord

2019-12-04 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

The entertainment business is fast-moving by its very nature. It has few tangible assets, it relies on technology to distribute its wares and its customers crave novelty. The emerg

2019-12-03 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Amid the debris and deals the outlines of a new business model are becoming clear. It relies on broadband and devices, not cable-packages, and overwhelmingly on subscriptions, not

2019-12-03 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Kroger’s sheds, which may take up to five years to complete, already give a sense of the emerging grocery battle lines. They will be big, up to about 33,000 square metres (350,000

2019-12-02 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Grocery is a sadomasochistic business. Sellers can count on stable revenues but have little margin for error on sourcing, price and waste. Shoppers suffer from a retail version of

2019-12-02 所屬欄目:經濟學人雙語版|經濟學人下載

Leaders
來源于《社論》版塊The $650bn binge
6500億美元的狂歡Creative
創造力Creative destruction in the entertainment business has had blockbuster results
娛樂業的“創造性破壞”取