搜索 复制 My nainai was born to a landowning family in Jiangsu. Her surname was Shi, which means stone, a stubborn word that suited her personality. 奶奶出生在江苏省的一个地主家里。她姓石，是石头的意思，这个词很硬，...
搜索 复制 I saw how much I had never even known to ask. The essay showed how quick his mind was, his sharp awareness of the history he was living through. 我看到了很多我从未知道也从未想要问的东西。从这篇文章能看出爷爷...
搜索 复制 In my memory yeye was always alone in his room, playing cards. In the afternoons he played go; in the evening, mahjong. 在我的记忆里，爷爷总是一个人在他的房间里打牌。他下午玩围棋，晚上打麻将。 Before...
搜索 复制 I landed in Shanghai and took a high-speed train to Hefei. 我在上海下得飞机，然后坐高铁去合肥。 Before I left, I read an article on how the US-China trade war was affecting the price of soy. 在我离开之前，我读了...
搜索 复制 In Reflections on Exile, Edward Said writes: Exile is irremediably secular and unbearably historical like death but without death's ultimate mercy, it has torn millions of people from the nourishment of tradition, family, and geography....
搜索 复制 My grandparents, by whom I mean my yeye (yeye: my father's father) and nainai (nainai: my father's mother) lived in Hefei, in Anhui province. 我的祖父母，也就是我的爷爷(我父亲的父亲)和我的奶奶(我父亲的母亲)住...
搜索 复制 'As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness': China, the US and me 边境封锁后，我被困在了自己的美国性里：中国、美国和我 I've long nursed vague plans of moving back to China for a few years, to solid...
But note that we have often tried to eliminate mosquitoes using chemicals, which have horrendous and damaging off-target effects, so removing one species without insecticide is an improvement on that. 但请注意，我们经常试图用化学物质消...
We can add to this. Jessica Metcalf, an infectious diseases biologist at Princeton University, has proposed a Global Immunological Observatory, 我们可以加上这个。普林斯顿大学传染病生物学家杰西卡梅特卡夫提出了一个全球...
It sounds like a lot of money, but it will pay for itself when we are able to facilitate the return to a normal kind of working life and economy. 听起来像是一大笔钱，但当我们能够帮助他们恢复正常的工作生活和经济时，这笔...
Vaccine hesitancy produces a terrible toll. In Japan, a fall in the numbers of people taking the HPV vaccine in 2013 (owing to coverage of a cluster of adverse effects) is predicted to lead to 5,000 deaths from cervical cancer that could otherwise ha...
The battle against polio provides a good illustration of the task we face. 与小儿麻痹症的斗争很好地说明了我们面临的任务。 The disease is caused by a virus that mostly affects children, and can lead to irreversible paralysis and...
By the middle of 2020, when there were more than 2.5 million coronavirus cases in the US, and when numbers were growing at an alarming rate, Cuba had reported just 2,448 cases in a population of 11.3 million. 到2020年年中，当美国的新冠病毒...
The team hammers out four key messages. First, the economic argument that is most likely to be repeated in the corridors of power: the returns from investment in healthcare are big. 该团队敲定了四条关键信息。首先，最有可能在权力走...
So that's coronavirus and malaria on our list. What else might we be able to eradicate if we had $1tn to spend? 我们的名单上有冠状病毒和疟疾。如果我们有1万亿美元可以支出，那么我们还能根除什么呢？ Tuberculosis...
