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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 以色列总理陷危机 布隆伯格参选 马里直升机相撞
Israels 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 Netanyahu called the indictment an attempted coup. But Gideon Saar, a high-ranki
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 中国驻外机构超美国 哥伦比亚罢工 新欧盟委员会就职
The world this week 本周要闻 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 passed America, which has 273, this year. France, Japan and Russia t
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2019年经济学人 动物性取向—本能(1)
When it comes to sexual behaviour, the animal kingdom is a broad church. 说到性行为，动物王国是一个广教派。 Its members indulge in a wide variety of activities, including with creatures of the same sex. 其成员沉迷于各种各样的
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2019年经济学人 动物性取向—本能(2)
Ms Monk and her co-authors question the first assumption by pointing out that Monk女士和她的共著者质疑了第一个假设，他们指出 many animals seem to mate at a frequency far higher than looks necessary merely to reproduce 许多动物的
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2019年经济学人 血腥学者易卜拉欣·阿瓦徳(4)
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 withholy writ. Unbelievers were expelled or killed if they did not pa
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--如何与外星人交谈(1)
Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 How to talk to aliens 如何与外星人交谈 The challenge says a lot about talk among people, too 这个挑战也说明了很多人与人沟通的问题 Imagine dining in a European capital where you do not know the l
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--如何与外星人交谈(2)
约翰逊语言专栏--如何与外星人交谈(2) 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 assumed to be unive
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 特斯拉新车遇乌龙 诺华收购TMC 李世石退役
The Brazilian real fell to a new low against the dollar, after Brazils finance minister said he was not worried about a strong greenback. The slide prompted a brief intervention by the central bank to prop up the currency. The countrys current-accoun
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 阿里香港上市 LVMH收购蒂芙尼 优步伦敦营业受阻
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 In the biggest-ever takeover in the luxury-goods industry, LVMH, a French global conglomerate, announced its acquisition of Tiffany, an American jeweller founded in 1837 and known for its flagship stor
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2019年经济学人 全球贸易:世界末日(1)
Winter is coming, warned a Norwegian representative on November 22nd, at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 寒冬要来了，11月22日一名挪威代表在世界贸易组织（WTO）的一次会上表示。 The multilateral trading sy
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2019年经济学人 安瓦尔·冈戈-刽子手之歌(1)
Anwar Congo, a perpetrator of the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-68, died on October 25th, aged 78 安瓦尔冈戈是1965年至1968年的印尼大屠杀的一个凶手，他于10月25日去世，享年78岁。 The first time he tried to kill a ma
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2019年经济学人 全球贸易:世界末日(2)
America has had some wins at the WTO: against the European Union for subsidies to Airbus, an aircraft-maker; 美国已经在WTO取得了一些胜利：反对欧盟对飞机制造商空客的补贴； and against China for its domestic subsidies; thef
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2019年经济学人 艾滋病—勿忘(1)
On the principle that no news is good news, the fact that aids has dropped out of the headlines is surely a good thing. 基于没有消息就是好消息的原则，艾滋病不再是头条新闻无疑是一件好事。 Nevertheless, it does no harm
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2019年经济学人 巴托比职场专栏--年会不要太正式(1)
Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 Let them eat Christmas cake 何不食圣诞蛋糕 Dont make seasonal festivities too formal 不要让年会太正式 Everyone feels like winding down in December. Even if you do not celebrate Christmas, the New Year is
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2019年经济学人 圣诞节前英国的噩梦(1)
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Britains nightmare before Christmas 圣诞节前英国的噩梦 A divided country faces an election that will tear it still further apart 一个分裂的国家面临着一场将进一步分裂的选举 British vote
