Europe 欧洲板块 Charlemagne 查理曼专栏 The other villain 另一个反派 Fethullah Gulen shares blame for the state of Turkey today 对于时下土耳其局势，法土拉葛兰难辞其咎 You might think that by now Turkey had run out of h...
Such a career had possessed him from childhood, and his slightly crazy mother had also thought of nothing else, pushing him under the nose of every eminent musician she could find in San Francisco, Pierre Monteux, Alfred Hertz, even Sergei Rachmanino...
Rebels in northern Mozambique captured the port city of Mocmboa da Praia, killing dozens of soldiers and sinking a navy patrol boat. The jihadist insurgency threatens the development of offshore gasfields, Africas biggest energy project. 莫桑比克北...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Joe Biden named Kamala Harris, a senator from California, as his running-mate. The daughter of a Jamaican-American economist and an Indian-American cancer researcher, she is the first black woman...
The classical butterfly effect suggests that the researchers' meddling should have changed it quite drastically. 经典蝴蝶效应表明，研究人员的干预本应该对其有巨大的改变。 In the event, the qubit's original state had been al...
This is an entertaining tale that doubles as an important work of scholarship. From its first days in power, Mr Jeffreys-Jones shows, the Nazi party strove to undermine American democracy. Along with recent work by other historians, his suggests that...
A while after his argument with the patio table, when his sliced right thumb had had stitches and appeared to be healing, Leon Fleisher noticed a sluggishness in his right index finger. It was especially unresponsive when he tried to play trills, and...
In Ray Bradbury's science-fiction story A Sound of Thunder, a character time-travels far into the past and inadvertently crushes a butterfly underfoot. 在雷布莱伯利的科幻小说《一声惊雷》中，主角穿越到了遥远的过去，并在无...
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Espionage 间谍 The Fuhrers man in Manhattan 希特勒元首的间谍在曼哈顿 Ring of Spies. 《间谍集团》 By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. 作者：罗德里杰弗里斯琼斯 As Germany pursued its terr...
Some companies ban all office romances outright. Others issue guidelines such as the stipulation that employees should not allow a relationship with a colleague to influence their behaviour at work, and that they should disclose any relationship that...
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比专栏 Labours lost love 职员们遗失的爱情 The decline of the office romance 办公室恋情的减少 Their eyes met across the office photocopier. At long last, each of them had found someone who could...
The ensuing credit boom, the biggest in a decade, put renewed pressure on the lira and pushed inflation up. 随之而来的十年内最大的信贷繁荣，这给里拉带来了新的压力，并推高了通货膨胀。 Days after the latest run on t...
So far Mr Johnsons moral laziness has prevented him from making the best of these instincts. He has made a mockery of his talk of reforming the state by dumping a collection of cronies on the House of Lords, for example. A reading of Mr Jacksons book...
De Gaulle tackled Frances loss of self-confidence by speaking for la France profonde and insisting that France cannot be France without grandeur. France could easily have wallowed in despair after the war orwhat amounted to the same thinglistened mor...
There seemed to be no end to the unusual measures Turkey would take to shore up the lira. 土耳其为支撑里拉而采取的非正常措施似乎没有尽头。 The government had made it prohibitively hard for foreigners to bet against the battere...
