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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--为何广泛使用的语言语法更简单(1)
Books arts 来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Big and basic 大而基础 Why widely spoken languages have simpler grammar 为何广泛使用的语言语法更简单 Stalin spoke Russian as a second language. The Georgi
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2019年经济学人 濒危物种(2)
To understand why these reasonable-sounding proposals should be rejected, consider what has happened to elephant numbers since CITES most recently authorised some legal trade, when Botswana, Namibia and South Africa were allowed in 2007 to sell a fix
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 美国枪声再起 新西兰堕胎合法 印度取消克什米尔特权
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 Indias Hindu-nationalist government unexpectedly ended the autonomy granted to Indian-administered Kashmir, splitting it in two, putting local party leaders under house arrest and ordering non-resident
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2019年经济学人 印度金融—变身华尔街(1)
Financial centres, like delicate plants, thrive in the right conditions. 金融中心就像是娇嫩的植物一样，在适宜的环境下繁荣生长。 Those include a vibrant private sector, banks that direct capital based on the prospect for pro
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--为何广泛使用的语言语法更简单(2)
As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those adult learners will Stalin-styleignore some of the niceties where they
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 美国发起“护航联盟”特朗普撤回提名 莫斯科发生抗
Americas immigration agency arrested 680 illegal migrant workers at seven factories in Mississippi. Some were released and told to appear at an immigration court; others were sent to a detention centre in Louisiana. The operation, said to be the bigg
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2019年经济学人 印度金融—变身华尔街(2)
India's growing prowess in finance contrasts with its weakness in manufacturing. 印度金融实力的增长与其制造业的疲软形成了鲜明对比。 That is despite constant government intervention, 尽管政府在不断干预， most recentl
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2019年经济学人 刚果出租车司机皮埃尔·曼贝尔(4)
This made him useful as a fixer, though he was a driver first, and ran the same risks the journalists did when he strayed into presidential compounds or, as in the 1990s, into riots. But he and the car, as its bashes showed, would drive through anyth
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2019年经济学人 燃眉之急
Ecology is a complicated thing. Given the facts that elephant damage often kills trees and bush fires often kill trees 生态是一个复杂的东西。鉴于大象的破坏以及丛林大火经常会导致树木死亡的事实， it would be reasona
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2019年经济学人 印尼灾难新闻发言人苏托波(1)
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (Pak Topo), Indonesia's disaster spokesman, died on July 7th, aged 49. Three times the government asked him and he turned the job down, not wanting to become a mouthpiece for them; but in the end they pressed him, and in 2010 Sut
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2019年经济学人 美联储拟建实时支付系统(1)
In several countriesBritain, say, or Swedenbank transfers are more or less instant. 在一些国家如英国或瑞典银行间转帐或多或少是即时的。 The moment your wages leave your employer's bank account, they arrive in your own, 你的工
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 人民币跌破7元关口 中美贸易摩擦升级 人民币贬值股市
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 America officially categorised China as a currency manipulator for the first time in 25 years, after the yuan weakened past the psychologically significant mark of seven to the dollar, the lowest point
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2019年经济学人 美国核条令(1)
Nuclear doctrine 核战略思想 Finger on the button 按钮上的手指 If America ruled out using nuclear weapons first the world would not be any safer 如果美国首先排除使用核武器的可能性，世界也不会更安全 In 1973 Major Ha
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2019年经济学人 美联储拟建实时支付系统(2)
Third, it worries that a single service will create a single point of failure. Doubling up will make the whole system safer. 第三，它担心单一服务将创造一个单点故障。增倍将使整个系统更加安全。 Big banks told the Fed, i
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2019年经济学人 美国核条令(2)
Ms Warrens impulse to constrain nuclear policy is right. However, her proposal could well have perverse effects that make the world less stable. Many of Americas allies, such as South Korea and the Baltic states, face large and intimidating rivals at
