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2019年经济学人 猫猫狗狗统治“铲屎官”(1)
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Pet theories 宠物理论 Reigning cats and dogs 统治阶级猫猫狗狗 As pet ownership booms, a troubling question rears its head: who owns whom? 随着宠物拥有量的激增，一个令人不安的问题浮出
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2019年经济学人 猫猫狗狗统治“铲屎官”(2)
The pet business is growing even faster than pet numbers, because people are spending more and more money on them. No longer are they food-waste-recyclers, fed with the scraps that fall from their masters tables. Pet-food shelves groan with delicacie
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2019年经济学人 太空人工智能技术(1)
Speeding up the processing of space images 加快空间图像处理 Much of the information that is beamed back from space is useless. 从太空传回来的许多信息是没用的。 Pictures taken by satellites orbiting the Earth might take days to
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2019年经济学人 社会名流克劳斯·冯·比洛(3)
The von Blow itself was slightly misleading. His father's side was Danish; his mother, whose name was Blow, had distant German nobility. His English upbringing endowed him with a Cambridge degree and a call to the bar, but the aristocratic von had be
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 贸易担忧扰乱全球市场 特朗普介入大型并购案 欧央行
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 The proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, first floated in April last year, faced a fresh hurdle as a group of American states led by California and New York launched a lawsuit to block it. The state
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2019年经济学人 Facebook推出“天秤币”(1)
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Facebook 脸书 Coin flip 抛硬币 The social networks grand designs for virtual cash could be surprisingly consequentialincluding for itself 这家社交网络对虚拟现金的宏伟设计可能会产生令人惊
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2019年经济学人 太空人工智能技术(2)
Intuition-1 will view a 15km-wide swathe of Earth at a resolution of 25 metres per pixel. Intuition-1将以每像素25米的分辨率观测15公里宽的地球带。 This will be able to reveal details such as how well crops are growing or allow the
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2019年经济学人 政府秘密贷款(1)
How to stop governments borrowing behind their people's backs 如何阻止政府背着人民借贷 In 2016 the government of Mozambique confessed to secret debts of $1.4bn, or 11% of GDP, 2016年，莫桑比克政府承认了14亿美元的秘密债务，
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2019年经济学人 Facebook推出“天秤币”(2)
If the project lives up to the mock-ups, buying, selling, holding, sending and receiving Libras will become a doddle. It can be done in Facebooks Messenger app or WhatsApp, another messaging-servicecum-social-network it ownsand, later next year, in a
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 雷诺日产关系紧张 英国召回惠而普烘干机 美国打击大
Jean-Dominique Senard, Renaults chairman, admitted that relations with Nissan, the French carmakers alliance partner, were tense, but said that they could rebuild trust. Mr Senard was speaking at his first shareholders meeting since taking up his pos
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2019年经济学人 词汇意义的变化(1)
Books and Arts 来源于《图书与艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 In the beginning is the word 太初有道之词意变化 Changing the meaning of a word is hard but not impossible 改变词的意思很难，但并非不可能 Misogyn
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2019年经济学人 政府秘密贷款(2)
The G20 countries could use their voting power at the IMF to insist it stores the data. G20国可以利用它们在IMF的投票权坚持由其保存数据。 Their endorsement will have weight with the private sector, says Sonja Gibbs of the IIF. IIF的
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2019年经济学人 社会名流克劳斯·冯·比洛(4)
His feelings for Sunny changed in different lights. They had been happy early on and had a daughter, Cosima, whom he adored. He and Sunny fell out because she did not like him working; she did not mind his mistresses, as long as he was discreet. In s
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2019年经济学人 词汇意义的变化(2)
Ms Manne distinguishes between sexist beliefs and systemic prejudice. For instance, the idea that women have certain innate characteristics (being loving and nurturing, say) and natural roles that derive from them (wife, mother) is sexist. It is when
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2019年经济学人 伦敦金融城能否挺过英国退欧(1)
伦敦金融城能否挺过英国退欧(1) Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Can the City survive Brexit? 伦敦金融城能否挺过英国退欧? The biggest international financial centre in the world faces its toughest test 世界上最大的国际
