Britain 英国板块 Bagehot 白芝浩专栏 A certain idea of Britain 对英国的某种看法 General de Gaulle has some important lessons for Boris Johnson 戴高乐将军对鲍里斯约翰逊的一些重要的借鉴作用 Boris johnson is taking...
Outside the village, he had enemies. He wanted to see Gypsies integrated and living like other Hungarians, for he was proud of being Hungarian too; he dreamed of dark faces in advertisements, his food in national stores, colour-blind political partie...
The World Tourism Organisation said that up to the end of May the industry saw a 56% fall in tourist arrivals, year on year, translating to $320bn in lost revenue, three times more than in 2009, during the financial crisis. Although tourism accounts...
The world this week 世界国际要闻 Business 经济 The bosses of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google faced sharp questions (remotely) from a committee in Americas Congress about their companies market dominance and whether they should be broken up...
Donal McNally, a specialist in biomechanics at the University of Nottingham, in Britain, 英国诺丁汉大学的生物力学专家Donal McNally表示， says that an ideal helmet would make the best use of the space between shell and head, adjusting...
He meets a young girl accused of being possessed by the devil and soon to be burned at the stake, and stares into her eyes, looking for some greater truth. He finds none. Faith is a torment, he says. It is like loving someone who is out there in the...
Books arts 文艺板块 Home entertainment 家庭娱乐专栏 Pandemic cinema 疫情影院 Will and grace 意愿与恩惠 Ingmar Bergmans contemplation of plague and death is life-enhancing 英格玛伯格曼对瘟疫与死亡的思考增益人生。...
Anyone who has experimented as a child with maize starch and water knows about shear-thickening. 任何在童年做过玉米淀粉加水实验的人都知道剪切增稠。 A mixture of these substances is easy to stir slowly, but solidifies when you...
Big firms such as Accell and Giant of Taiwan compete with sporty brands such as Americas Cannondale and affordable city rides from QWIC. Brompton, a British maker of fancy folding bikes, has been making 10% of its ￡42.5m ($56m) in annual sales from...
Business 商业版块 Bicycles 自行车 Electric shock 电动自行车冲击 Two wheels good. Two wheels plus a motor better 两个轮子的自行车很好。在两个轮子的自行车上加上发动机，变成电动自行车，这样更好。 Van...
As the enterprise grew, he directed everything. A national public-work scheme provided small wages, but enough. Each day the villagers would gather round him to get their tools and his firm, straight instructions: where they should dig a well, exactl...
Banks' earnings reports for the second quarter, released over the past two weeks, 在过去两周发布的银行第二季度财报表明， suggest that the take-up of the schemes may well have reflected the exigencies of lockdown. 这些方案的实施...
The police usually benefit from a natural dividend in the autumn. Homicide rates tend to fall in September as the weather cools and teenagers head back to classrooms. But Mr Herrmann fears the country might not be as lucky this year. Many schools are...
There are some exceptions to this decline. Non-residential burglaries spiked in early June, coinciding with the peak of the George Floyd protests, when looting of retail stores was common. Domestic violence has also probably increased. Data are spars...
Soon after India went into a strict lockdown in March, its central bank allowed borrowers to put off loan repayments for three months. 三月，印度实施严格封锁不久后，其中央银行允许借款方将偿还借款期限延迟三个月。...
